Video & Guide: Packrafting Newfoundland’s Bay Du Nord Wilderness Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrIQDIVW8b0&t=296s LINK TO THE EPISODE BELOW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrIQDIVW8b0&t=296s In this episode I take a solo 9 day expedition, into Newfoundland, Canada’s, Bay Du Nord Wilderness Reserve. The trip takes places in mid August of 2016. I get flown into the heart of the 2,895 sq/km provincially protected area by Gene Ploughman of Thorburn Aviation and dropped on the shores of Diamond Lake, about 75 kilometres from the nearest community. The sole purpose of this trip was to test the Alpacka Raft and my abilities to navigate our unforgiving bush with it. It passed with flying colours being extremely light, durable and maneuverable. This was all in preparation for the 700 kilometre expedition across our province that I successfully completed with my dog Saku last spring/summer 2017. There’s a documentary of that trip in the making. Here’s a CBC news link related to the Cross Newfoundland trip: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/justin-barbour-newfoundland-wilderness-trek-1.4181310 I also tested…