In the summer of 2003, for the third consecutive year, I spent a week paddling the wilderness waters of Isle Royale National Park, in the northern reaches of chilly and deep Lake Superior. The first year, it was a solo trip. The second year, brother Jonas came along. And in 2003, Greg flew out from Montana to accompany Jonas and me. As I recall, the trip coincided with Greg’s fifth wedding anniversary. His brilliant and lovely wife (who is among my favorite people) generously gave her blessing for Greg to participate in this adventure.

We captured a great deal of video footage from this trip, and I, using the then state-of-the-art desklamp iMac G4 and iMovie, edited it into a 50-minute DVD. The full film, as you might imagine, contains a great deal of tomfoolery and camp shenanigans that could only ever be of interest to us three featured players, and those who, for some reason, love us a great deal. Now, I’ve edited that down into a highlight reel of fewer than ten minutes in length. I still think its audience is likely *very* limited (in fact it may not be any larger than that for the full film), but there is some pretty paddling footage, wildlife (a loon, with its trilling, and a moose), and background music by Gordon Lightfoot, U2, The Traveling Wilburys, and Cat Stevens.

If, after that rather tepid introduction, you still have any inclination to check it out, here it is for your (it might be hoped) enjoyment: