Ridley Wilderness Youth Program Highlights 2016 – 10th Anniversary edition
The Ridley Wilderness Youth Program team had an outstanding time in Quetico. The Ridley Wilderness Youth Program (RWYP) is one of Quetico Foundation‘s proudest partnerships with Trinity Theatre and some of Toronto’s young leaders. This year marks the 10th Anniversary and the RWYP team headed out into the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park, August 4th-12th, to gain leadership skills, wilderness skills, canoe trip experience, sustainable values, team values, personal reflections, life lessons, meet up and learn about ecosystem monitoring and ecology from the Student Summer Research Program and to enjoy backcountry camping and canoeing along waterfalls, the beautiful landscape, old growth forest, shoreline, portages, wilderness, sunset mirrored lakes and pristine waters of Quetico.
This set of 24 photos shows the 2016 RWYP team having a great time in Quetico. Credit: Torie Gervais on behalf of the 2016 Ridley Wilderness Youth Program.
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- 2016 RWYP team headed out into a wilderness canoe camping excursion in Quetico. Credit: Torie Gervais
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- Looking at a topographic map of Quetico.
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- Getting a great official welcome to Atikokan, The Canoeing Capital of Canada
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- Jeremy Dickson, and Canoe Canada Outfitters, introduce the RWYP team to the park and showing them their route.
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- Trevor Gibb, Quetico Park Superintendent, familiarizes us with Quetico.
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- Under blue sky, exploring wetlands along the beautiful shoreline of Quetico on an amazing day
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- Learning how to navigate the portages, canoe routes and waterways in northern Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park
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- Enjoying a nice beach on a blue sky day by the lake with gorgeous shoreline in the background
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- The Student Summer Research Program team provides a demonstration about aquatic species and crayfish monitoring
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- Observing a crayfish to see if it is native or an invasive rusty crayfish in Quetico being removed from an ecology study funnel net.
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- Enjoying the fresh air and surroundings at a great lunch spot in Quetico
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- Having fun canoeing
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- The Ridley Wilderness Youth Program team by beautiful wilderness rapids along a portage in Quetico
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- Portaging the canoe, eh!
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- Learning canoe and camp safety skills
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- Just relaxing in the canoe
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- Fun and great times around the campsite
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- Reflections of the lake and forest – enjoying a beautiful Quetico sunset
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- A friendly face while paddling through the wetlands
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- Epic canoe trip photo: classic wilderness canoe and portage style
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- Jai, a RWYP canoeist from 2014 joined and provided mentorship to the 2016 team
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- Portaging along a Quetico lake-to-lake trail.
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- A great group photo on one of the truely most epic 2016 Quetico canoe trips, Credit: Torie Gervais
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- Finishing photo: Enjoying one of the final sunsets along Quetico’s shores
