Your Adventure Your Choice

On CCW Multi-Day Excursions, we want you to have a memorable trip and offer several different activities for you to choose from.  Most activities will take 1-2 hours; however, a few may take longer.  The number of activities per excursion will vary depending on the duration of the excursion, number of participants and seasonal availability.

• Evening Slideshow Presentations
  • ​About Modern-Day Prospectors
  • Prospecting in Canada Photograph Slideshow
  • Motorcycle Trips Slideshow
  • Create your own Slideshow for viewing
• ​Scavenger Hunt using map and compass
• ​Learn to navigate using map, compass and GPS
• Coffee Roasting basics
• Build your own quinzhee...and if you're brave enough sleep in it!
• Introduction of how to build a loghome using the full-scribe Swedish method
• Sliding
• Skating on Whiskeyjack Lake (it is very rare the ice conditions are ideal for this)
• Winter Photography basics
• Prospecting basics (see what visible gold in rock looks like)
• Geology and mining history of the local area
• Tour the Souris River Canoe Factory, Fletcher Canoe Workshop and/or XY Company hand-crafted paddles store (recommended to book in advance)
• Visit the Steep Rock Iron Mine Pit near the town of Atikokan
• Evening walk under a starlit sky (we don't have light pollution here, so it's pretty brilliant)
• How to prepare and cook wild game
• How to make amazing homemade pie (including the dough), completely from scratch