Training

So Leslie, Colin and I have started our training routine. We've been doing circuits and some weights... getting the hurt out of way before we leave. Its nice come home to a hot shower and soft bed luxuries that we won't have on the river. Colin and I were reflecting on the incredible feats that voyageurs undertook everyday. Paddling a canoe for 12 hours and being required to tote at least 180 lbs over miles of grueling portages demonstrates awesome physical endurance and strength. Voyageurs consumed pemmican (dried buffalo meat and tallow) to survive, but on his 1810 trip through the Rockies, Thompson's voyageurs were essentially starving on 8 lbs of meat per day. They were beyond the limit of the human body to process energy... now thats a diet.