Canoeing is a sport that first caught his attention at an early age. Talking about how he got started, Einola explains how the camp he went to as a kid, Camp Towhee, did a five-day canoe trip every year. He continues, “I was then part of the leadership training program… I got the canoe tripping ‘bug' through that.”
That bug led to a job in Muskoka, at YMCA Camp Pine Crest, where he's worked for eight summers now. As a counselor, he was running three to five canoe trips right away and gradually moved from working with younger kids to leading longer, flatwater canoe trips for teenagers in places like Quetico Provincial Park and 20 days near Thunder Bay.
(Read more: Estonian Life No. 43 2021 paber- and PDF/digi)
Written by Vincent Teetsov, Toronto
