I like how the girls went into their traditional group photo knee-bend pose and the two guys just kinda followed the lead

If you like this sort of thing, there's a YouTube channel called Mossy Earth that does a lot of rewilding projects.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MossyEarth

Hell yeah. That looks like an awesome trip. The BWCA and Quetico Provincial Park have been on my to-do list for ages.

Trimmed the pic.

They are meant to carry a load, when they are they perform well.

Heck yeah. I miss my giant orange Coleman. It was ugly, heavy, and slow, but super stable and borderline indestructible.

coleman?

Yeah canoes are like hamburgers, I like all kinds of them including the cheap ones

Much love! My canoe is a fat bastard, one of those giant green bathtubs, and it handles like one. OTOH, strap a trolling motor on there and it's fun with my wife or the two little kids.

I call it "offroad kayaking", though I usually use the term for when you scooch your butt over a shallow bit of river or pull yourself over a mostly submerged log blocking your way.

This guy greets me.

Seal launch

"Kayak launch"

I haven't heard of a term for that en anglais, but I would call it "scooting in" ou simply just "launching."

"running start" would be the closest thing I could think of in American English, but it's not a perfect match. As it pertains to kayaking, a "running start" would be understood as some sort of momentum transfer while simultaneously hopping into the kayak.

But still, that definition is what a typical American would imagine if you said "kayak running start". So perhaps not totally identical to what I think you're describing.

I'm not a kayaker, but I'm casual American English I've never heard a term for this