Still, there are similarities. Lake Champlain has wildlife and rock formations that are similar to or even the same as the Great Lakes.
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He has rafted rivers in Yakutsk, dodged grizzly bears and black flies around Great Slave Lake (his record for fly bites is two hundred in a single night), and scouted rock formations on the Skeleton Coast, sometimes hiking more than twenty miles a day.