While I might not be boating whitewater much these days, I do get out in a canoe fairly regularly on local lakes and rivers which keeps me in shape for my other paddlesport passion- wilderness canoe tripping- which has been a part of my paddling life almost as long as whitewater.
For the last five years, I have taken week-long solo trips in Algonquin- not the kind of trip that covers miles of lakes and rivers,
but trips where I paddle/portage into quieter corners of the park to basecamp and explore. It is often just me with the
moose and loons.