Elements Adventure Company

01/01/2025

Here we go 2025!
Happy New Year everyone!

29/12/2024

New course dates and new course locations! Take a peek at our newsletter for details about our courses and our 1-day sale.
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28/12/2024

Jennings River Showcase 7/7. Teslin Lake - Our trip ended with a 60km paddle on Teslin Lake. The name Teslin is derived from a Tlingit word for “long sewing sinew”, sometimes also translated as “long, narrow lake”, which Teslin Lake certainly is. This section could have been challenging in stormy weather, but we luckily had sunshine and the wind at our back. There was enough wind to sail the final leg of our trip into town. Teslin Lake is stunning, and we enjoyed beach campsites with big vistas of the surrounding sky and mountains, and a visit from six neighbouring loons.

18/12/2024

Not to be missed - for intermediate - advanced canoeists with a hearty sense of adventure and also an appetite for hiking. Amazing value for 16 days in the wilderness.

16/12/2024

Hellman Scout for sale, only $1800!
One of our Elements alumni asked me to post this sweet tandem whitewater canoe for sale here in case there are any other people in the Elements community looking for a boat.
If you’re like me, and find that the royalex boats seem to get heavier every year that I get older - this is a canoe to consider. Tough, yet very lightweight, the Scout has plenty of rocker and is fully outfitted for the playing in the river.
This is half the price of a new one - plus it’s already outfitted - so don’t delay if you’re interested!
Please message me and I’ll send you the contact info.

14/12/2024

Jennings River Showcase 6/7. Wildlife - The Tlingit name for the Jennings River is Six' aati Heen, meaning "abundant river". We saw so many moose it was hard to keep count. We were also visited by eagles, osprey, loons, gulls and songbirds, and we fished for grayling, lake trout and pike. The Cassiar mountains had plenty of huckleberries, wild blueberries and bog cranberries, and we found signs of caribou and wolves high up in the alpine.

13/12/2024

A friend sent me these photos from when she worked on the Bonnet Plume River circa 2006 - not too long ago when the Peel River watershed was under pressure from mineral exploration. Look for the tiny white boxes at the base of the mountain – and you’ll see the camp.
📷 Anni Lawrence

13/12/2024

Jennings River Showcase 5/7. Camping - Camping on the Jennings is different from other northern rivers we’ve paddled - it only has a few of the large gravel bars that one would normally camp on. We relied on pine benches, small meadows, sandy eskers, and points of land. Every site had something to offer, were it vistas, fishing, swimming, wildlife-viewing, or a game of yahtzee and a second cup of tea.

09/12/2024

Some exciting paddling opportunities for 2025 and our 1-day sale announcement
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09/12/2024

Jennings River Showcase 4/7. Portaging - The Jennings Lakes are not the headwaters of the Jennings River, although aerial surveys in the 1940s suggested they were. Getting to the river from Jennings Lakes would require portaging to link several small kettle lakes - a route which no one, to our knowledge, had yet done. Thankfully, the many moose of the region have been travelling between these lakes for millenia and we were often able to follow their trails. And when we arrived at the upper Jennings River, we found enough water to float a canoe.

29/11/2024

Jenning River Showcase Series 3/7. Hiking - We started our trip on the Jennings Lakes, surrounded by the alpine peaks and ridges of the Cassiar Mountains. It took some bushwhacking through willows and fir trees to reach treeline, but it was worth the effort. One could walk for miles along easy alpine ridges, with stunning views in every direction.

24/11/2024

Jennings River Showcase Series 2/7.
Paddling. One of the draws of the Jennings River is its incredible whitewater paddling. The river has set after set of continuous, technical class 2/2+ rapids - some 5 to 8 km long. This is flow state paddling, as the bow and stern work together to follow the deepest water and dodge unending boulders. Lower down, the river narrows to form big waves on outside corners, as low rocky cliffs rise along the shore. We had some of the best whitewater days of our lives here - truly exhilarating, world-class paddling.

15/11/2024

This summer, Elements Adventures ran a 13-day exploratory wilderness canoe trip on the Jennings River in Northern BC, in the traditional territories of the Tlingit, Tahltan, Kaska Dena and Dene. It’s rarely paddled, and as far as we know, we were the first guided group to begin the trip at Jennings Lakes. The crew was made up of our skilled guide team, Emily, George and Ana, and 5 guests with whitewater ability and a taste for adventure. The Jennings delivered! Stunning alpine hiking, adventurous portages, exhilarating whitewater paddling, and more moose than we could count.

21/10/2024

If you’re curious what it would be like to participate in an Expedition Canoe Guiding course, check out this short video created by our guiding instructor.
Thanks Keiran Florence!

RCABC Expedition Guide course on the Cariboo and Quesnel Rivers in 2024 for Elements Adventure Company.

21/10/2024

The new Esquif Ocoee already hard at work at our paddling school.

20/10/2024

My favourite quote from tonight’s rolling session at the Vernon pool: “I thought rolling a canoe could only be done by those with superhuman powers, but after tonight I felt like this is actually achievable for me!”
A big thank you to Bob Costerton for travelling to Vernon and delivering the wonderful instruction.