4HG Youth Canoeing Night

Hey All,

Hope you’re signed up for our event this Friday evening. If you are not yet, please contact me ASAP. It’s $20 a person and we are meeting at 6:15 at Fort Whyte Alive on McCreary Road.  Here are the two forms you will need to fill out ON-Water-Waiver-2 and this one here.  If possible, get these forms to Rudy before the event.

Here is the info you need to make sure you’re getting where you need to go.

When arriving, we need everyone to park in the staff parking lot. When entering off of McCreary, drive past the farm, past the overflow parking, and past the regular parking lot – to the left of the main building (the Alloway Reception Centre), there is a gate. This gate will open when you drive close to it. Drive straight for about 50 meters, past the sod house, past the fork in the road to go to the “Siobhan Richardson Field Station” – you should now be in the staff parking lot (it is a long skinny lot with a grassy area in front it and the Richardson Interpretive Centre to the South). This is the parking lot where you will meet Brahm, the staff person, and the volunteers. Try to have your group arrive as close to 6:30 as possible.

There is a wedding ceremony rehearsal in the Alloway Reception Centre, so please make sure nobody goes through this building or parks in the main parking lot.

Once the whole group has arrived in the staff parking lot, everyone will go to the paddling location together (about a 6 minute walk). There will be no building access, so make sure people bring a water bottle if they want one. There are porta-potties where you are paddling, so washroom access will be available. We currently only have 1 staff and 1 volunteer (I am waiting to hear back from a few more) so it is unlikely we will be able to do a full paddle instructional program, but Brahm is very experienced and will be happy to help out as much as possible. You will have full access to the canoes and kayaks, so people should be able to get a good taste of what there is to offer.

Once the paddling is over at 8:30, the group will walk back to the parking lot together and Brahm will unlock the gate to let people out (and relock after everyone).