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Making Maple Candy – Eventually

By Christina|2018-05-31T09:50:52-04:00May 1st, 2018|Categories: Adventure, Canada, cooking, DIY, edibles, education, Exploring, homemade, ice, inspiration, learning, maple, maple sap, maple syrup, maple trees, Muskoka, Nature, Ontario, outdoor products, outdoorproducts, recipes, teach, teaching, Uncategorized, Up north|Tags: @muskoka411, @muskokatourism, @muskokatravel, @ontarionature, @ontariotravel, #bucket, #camperchristina, #canada, #diy, #explore, #exploring, #getoutside, #maple, #maplesyrup, #mapletree, #ontario, #sap, #spiggot, #spile, #syrup, #tap, #tapping, #trialrun, #winter, learning, Muskoka|

When I finally finished making my maple syrup I was incredibly proud. I was also really happy, that it was over. It was a very very long process as far as the boiling went and I know that was due to my inadequate heat source but it didn't make it any less long. I was about to close the book/blog/video on the whole maple syrup series, until a friend, Terry Thomas commented on my facebook [...]

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Making Maple Syrup for Dummies – From Sap to Syrup – Part 2

By Christina|2018-05-31T09:56:02-04:00April 24th, 2018|Categories: Canada, DIY, edibles, education, enthusiasm, Exploring, food, homemade, inspiration, maple, maple sap, maple syrup, maple trees, Muskoka, Nature, Ontario, outdoor products, Outdoors, teach, teaching, Up north|Tags: @muskoka411, @muskokatourism, @muskokatravel, @ontarionature, @ontariotravel, #bucket, #camperchristina, #canada, #diy, #explore, #exploring, #getoutside, #maple, #maplesyrup, #mapletree, #ontario, #sap, #spiggot, #spile, #syrup, #tap, #tapping, #trialrun, #winter, learning, Muskoka|

This post is Part 2 of Making Maple Syrup, to see Part 1, click here. After 13 days of collecting sap, I was ready to try and turn it into maple syrup. Please see Part 1 for the collecting maple sap blog post. I had a few buckets that were still frozen solid or had a big chunk of ice in them, so I got out the big pot, filtered the sap that was in [...]

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Making Maple Syrup For Dummies, Like Me – Part 1

By Christina|2018-05-31T09:57:51-04:00April 17th, 2018|Categories: Adventure, Canada, cooking, DIY, edibles, education, Exploring, homemade, ice, inspiration, learning, maple, maple sap, maple syrup, maple trees, Muskoka, Nature, Ontario, outdoor products, Outdoors, recipes, teach, teaching, Up north|Tags: @muskoka411, @muskokatourism, @muskokatravel, @ontarionature, @ontariotravel, #bucket, #camperchristina, #canada, #diy, #explore, #exploring, #getoutside, #maple, #maplesyrup, #mapletree, #ontario, #sap, #spiggot, #spile, #syrup, #tap, #tapping, #trialrun, #winter, learning, Muskoka|

I have always been curious about how maple syrup is made. Every year around this time, my boss says, you should make maple syrup and blog about it, but I have always been too busy out on trips and hikes and exploring to give it a go. I guess I should therefore thank my concussion for this years test run. I have been unfortunately spending a lot of time at home and as the trees [...]

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Algonquin Kiosk Loop – 5 Day Solo Canoe Trip – Part 2 of 2

By Christina|2023-11-10T20:07:32-05:00September 20th, 2017|Categories: Adventure, Algonquin, Algonquin Park, Algonquin Provincial Park, alone, backcountry camping, Campers, camping, campsite, Canada, canoe camping, canoeing, enthusiasm, Exploring, inspiration, kiosk, Ontario, ontario parks, Outdoors, paddle, paddling, portage, portaging, Solitaire, solo trip, sunrise, sunset, tangii|Tags: @algonquin_pp, @BCustomCanoes, @explorersedge, @keencanada, @ontarionature, @ontarioparks, @ontariotravel, #algonquin, #backcountry, #bigthunder, #camperchristina, #camping, #canada, #canoe, #canoeing, #canoetrip, #club, #explore, #exploring, #fire, #firetrick, #footprint, #keen, #kios, #littlemink, #maple, #marmot, #mink, #ontario, #paddle, #paddleon, #paddling, #portagetrip, #tarp, camp, Kioshkokwi, kiosk, portage, portaging|

Part 1 of this trip can be found here. This is the continuation of that post starting from the afternoon of Day 3 at my site on Big Thunder Lake. I had just arrived, set up my small footprint tarp and was sitting under it enjoying some lunch...... While eating my lunch on day 3 on Big Thunder Lake, I realized I would have to move the small footprint tarp I was using and [...]

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Algonquin Kiosk Loop – 5 Day Solo Canoe Trip – Part 1

By Christina|2022-03-31T10:08:43-04:00September 13th, 2017|Categories: Adventure, Algonquin, Algonquin Park, Algonquin Provincial Park, alone, backcountry, backcountry camping, Bear vault, bearproof, camping, campsite, Canada, canoe, canoe camping, canoeing, creek, creeks, Exploring, inspiration, Kioshkokwi, kioshkokwi lake, kiosk, lakes, Nature, navigating, navigation, Ontario, ontario parks, Ontario Trails, outdoor products, Outdoors, paddle, paddling, portage, portaging, Provincial Park, scenery, scenic, solo trip, sunrise, sunset|Tags: @algonquin_pp, @explorersedge, @keencanada, @ontarionature, @ontarioparks, @ontariotravel, @ontrails, #adventure, #algonquin, #algonquinpark, #backcountry, #backcountrycustomcanoes, #bigthunder, #camperchristina, #camping, #canoe, #club, #dehydratedmeals, #erables, #explore, #getoutside, #keen, #lightweight, #maple, #ontario, #paddling, #portagetrip, #solo, #solocamping, #solotripping, #tripping, kiosk, portage, portaging|

In 2002, I went on my very first backcountry trip. Five days, four nights and for someone who'd barely canoed, a huge challenge. It was a loop full of portages and lots of tests and I had thought about doing it solo for quite some time now. After a great deal of thought, I came to the conclusion that doing that loop solo, just wasn't realistic or feasible, and so I put it out of [...]

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