Goals and Plans for 2020

We are 8 weeks into 2020 now, and I figure I should talk about our 2020 goals!

Each year so far we've set a distance we want to get to and track it on the side bar to the right. This year we are upping the total distance we want to travel to 600 km, instead of the 500 km we wanted to get to last year. That's 70 km further than we traveled last year, but we get to do it in the same number of weeks while trying to renovate our house!

Three things are working for us to help get to 600 km. We are getting out more during the winter so far doing about 30 km of cross country skiing so far this year. We are going to be doing at least 3 to 4 canoe trips, and we can travel further in a day by canoe than by backpacking. And we are planning some more aggressive trips, with longer days required to complete them in our time frame.

Other than travelling 600 km, we want to do the following things:

1 - A trip with a resupply point in the middle

The next step in our backpacking journey is to do a trip long enough that we need to resupply part way through. We are currently looking at doing an 8 day/140 km trip where we resupply late on day 4 or early on day 5 around 70 km into it. Becoming comfortable with a resupply is the next step to going on longer trips!

2 - Take a course to handle Class 1 Rapids

We want to take a course to learn how to safely canoe through moving water and Class 1 Rapids. This will help us become more comfortable with canoeing and open up a lot more canoe routes with our new skill set.

3 - Get more involved with the community!

We want to get more involved with Paddle Manitoba, which is a local not-for-profit that is trying to foster the paddling community, while encouraging safe paddling practices, and offering quality instruction through a national standards program.

We also want to try to get more involved with the small community we are building around our Facebook page, YouTube Channel, Blog, and Instagram accounts! Whether that's answering questions, doing more gear demonstrations or reviews, or helping people out we want to interact with everyone more.

So those are out goals and plans for 2020. We find that goal setting helps us shoot for a target and gives us some more motivation to get out and do more!