5:30 AM and I'm outside in my long johns trying to calm a wildly flapping tarp. The rain and wind has been hitting hard all night and tore our dinner tarp free from its pegs. A few minutes later and...
Kicked off today shooting a time-lapse of our camp tear down and then paddling off onto the river. The filming is going well. The biggest challenge being the very limited amount of sun we"™ve been getting to charge our gear...
On the water by 1pm today. For a paddling "schedule", that seems like a really late start, but up here it feels pretty normal. The last two nights give us really late light and it was an attractive time to...
Today we have the privilege to do what few will ever get to do, dip our paddles into the Thomsen river and canoe its Arctic waters. It's considered to be the most northernly canoeable river on the continent, and other...
This is the big day. Today we board a twin otter and fly into the Arctic wilderness of Aulavik National Park. Seems pretty straightforward, but in the north you have to be ready for anything. Case in point, there was...
Cory is interviewed by CBC News: Northbeat about his Into The Arctic: The Last Chapter expedition. ...
I'm sitting in Inuvik. It's 12am and I've come across Canada to the staging place of my 2015 Into The Arctic: The Last Chapter expedition. In a couple of days, I will board a twin otter and head further north...
Happy Canada Day to everyone from the Into The Arctic: The Last Chapter first leg crew in Inuvik!!! [vc_video link='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKP-cG0cK2Y']...
This Sunday, I pack up the car with painting, filming and camping gear, and head to Ottawa to catch our June 29th Canadian North flight to Inuvik to begin the first leg of my Into The Arctic: The Last Chapter...
Canada AM's Bev Thomson talks to Cory about his upcoming 2 month-long Into The Arctic: The Last Chapter expedition....
I've been trying to get in shape for my upcoming Arctic expedition since last November. Will all the effort it takes to put together and execute an Arctic expedition, there is just too much on the line not to ensure...
In preparation for my return to the north I'm reading, and really enjoying, Pierre Berton's 2001 fantastic "The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909". This book is bringing to life past the...
On June 29th I will begin my 4th Canadian Arctic journey: INTO THE ARCTIC: The Last Chapter.Boarding a Canadian North flight in Ottawa will take me north to Iqaluit then over to Inuvik for the first leg of this 2...
China's Modern Weekly features Cory's Arctic story. Part of an 8 page article, with other stories about Antarctica and Burma/Mongolia....
The Toronto Star invited Cory to write a feature article for the front page of their Travel section to share about his Arctic painting expeditions. Read on the Star website or read below: Canada Travel: Caledon artist spends six years exploring wonders...
Canada AM invited Cory back on the show for an update on his Into The Arctic Collection of paintings....
Read on the In The Hills website or read below: Cory Trépanier's Big Northern Dream BY NICOLA ROSS BACK ISSUES, SPRING 2012 In DesLauriers, a former trail director with Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, is credited with saying, "If they don"™t laugh at your...
Cory's interviewed about Into The Arctic Project and Film Tour visit to Ottawa....
Cory Trepanier is interviewed regarding his developing Into The Arctic Collection of oil paintings and his Into The Arctic II film....