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Suspension Bridge Kicks Off Canadian Adventure

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Can you spare four days? Do steep climbs, stunning coastal scenery, and Canadian wilderness sound like your cup of tea?

New Brunswick, Canada offers the 27-mile Fundy Footpath that begins on a suspension bridge over the Big Salmon River and ends at Fundy National Park after traveling through 12 ravines. You’ll need to pack everything you need, including a tidal chart for getting by two tidal rivers.

Sue and I walked the bridge, which swayed with each step. While we visited the nearby Fundy Trail Parkway interpretive center, four young backpackers listened to trail tips from a woman who worked at the center. Then they were off under a cloud layer that turned to rain that afternoon.

They faced more than 10,000 feet of ascents, no developed campsites, and the world’s highest tides.

More on the last part later.

Want to Go Remote? Try to Top This Adventure

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You and three friends take two flights, including a small-plane charter deep inside America’s most remote and largest national park, within the Arctic Circle. You, your buddies, and your backpacks plan to travel back to civilization..

It is 1992. No cell phones. No GPS. Gates of the Arctic National Park has no trails. But there are grizzly bears and the river you follow and cross regularly starts out at three feet wide but changes character drastically.

Accompanied by photographs, J. Robert Harris narrates his story on a Parks Channel video. Check it out to meet an extraordinary man. He tells many more stories in Way Out There, one of the best adventure books I have been fortunate to read. I mention it again here in case you missed my review.