The rain is pissing sideways, and the Barrington River is in flood, its banks overflowing and pushing into the forest. This is our second day working upstream on this water system, paddling the surging eddies and searching out the faint, overgrown portages around the heavy rapids and falls en route.
Shauna Liora and I are grinding our way towards the source of this river, where we’ll cross over the height of land into the start of the South Seal River, which will carry us to Hudson Bay. It’s quite fun paddling up a river, looking for the little weak points and seams in the land and water that you can move through kind of like a chess match with mother nature.