[LibWhacker]

His description of blood-sucking flies covering his face all day long would've been enough to deter me! I'm a wuss.

[hinckley buzzard]

Those flies are known to be a danger even to caribou, who have learned to seek dry terrain, away from water, to reduce their exposure to huge numbers of them.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Shoalts shoals..

[RJS1950]

That type of discovery is unique in this day and age of mapping from space through the span of visible and invisible spectra.

[Steely Tom]

Isn't the Map of Canada the product of a consensus.

How can a single person change a consensus?

[Puppage]

He went oot in aboot.

No wait, it was a canoe.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I bet he finds an overturned shopping cart and a couple crushed, rusty cans of Iron City beer.

[chrisser]

Mr. Shoalts proceeded along the river to find six more uncharted waterfalls

I hope he used a different discovery technique than what he used on the first one.

[GeronL]

Amazing to think there are still places people have not visited

[Mercat]

Very cool.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You have to dress for it, or so I'm told.
We stopped at one of the amethyst mines near Thunder Bay some years ago on a trip around Lake Superior. When I turned off the car, the black fly buzz waiting for us outside was nearly as loud as our old Chevy.

[Hot Tabasco]

His description of blood-sucking flies

Black Flies,(oops, I meant "flies of color" or "yooper-American" flies) they're the scourge of our Michigan's wilderness dominant upper penninsula for summer campers.

[JoeProBono]

[Moltke]

“It has the highest concentration of blood-sucking insects in the entire world,” said Mr. Shoalts. “It’s just a mass intensity of black flies attacking your face relentlessly, all day long.”

"Try the burka." *badda bing* "I'll be here all week long. Don't forget to tip your waitress."

[rochester_veteran]

His description of blood-sucking flies covering his face all day long would've been enough to deter me! I'm a wuss.

Black flies are nasty little suckers! I've gotten swollen glands from getting bit by one on the neck. My wife and younger son got sick from black fly bites. They're small but vicious:

This is how the bite will swell up:

[thesearethetimes...]

How awesome! I’d like to think there are places in the States like that. or at least where no one could find you :)

And with waterfalls! Double bonus points :):)
Tatt

[frithguild]

And now, with the backing of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS), Mr. Shoalts is poised to return to the area this week to properly document one of the last blind spots acknowledged by Canadian geographers.

Oh no! Not Again!

A waterfall discovered by Adam Shoalts on Canada's Again river. Photograph: Adam Shoalts

[OldNewYork]

Very interesting. It makes me wonder what else is out there...

[caveat emptor]

After rescuing most of his gear downstream and using duct tape to repair his dented canoe



Been there done that in Northern California. But it was an Old Town wood-canvas canoe, some ribs were broken, the skin was torn, and it was an uncharted rapids, not a waterfall. I had to rescue my "clients", their gear and canoes (one fiberglass, one metal, skin not breached but overturned and flooded) as well.

Long story, but my "clients" were students at a private school (Quaker) where I was a teacher, and experienced canoeists, while I was young with no canoeing experience. After several stops to investigate sounds of rapids ahead, and finding no danger, the "clients" finally convinced me to ignore the next one.

Some had even taken off their life jackets, including an rich adult "intern" (with a religious exemption from the draft, aka draft dodger) who was busy bedding several of the older girls.

We had to portage for half a mile or so and then managed to canoe to a prearranged pickup spot. Great learning experience for me. I later repaired my canoe but managed to destroy it a few years late in a river with unexpectedly low water flow.

[headsonpikes]

I learned his song 50 years ago.

I’s dedicated to all who must work in the northern bush:

http://www.nfb.ca/film/blackfly/

I’s a hoot, boys...

[headsonpikes]

Canadian ping.