Hey all! 

Travelling one way from Magnetawan to Canoe Lake at the end of this week, and was wondering if anyone had paddled the Petawawa from Daisy L through to White Trout, or Otterslide creek recently that could report water levels? Was in the south part of the park in mid July and water levels were very low. Thanks!

yellowcanoe wrote:

Note that the requirement to pay for additional vehicles on a backcountry trip now mean it is advantageous for a group to register as several small groups corresponding to the number of vehicles they would be bringing.   This will result in fewer campsites in use as a group that made several reservations will only use one campsite on a lake.

I just finished  booking a 5 day trip for Wednesday, August 19 to Sunday August 23 and had a lot of difficulty in getting something that would work despite a start point of Brent.  The web site was telling me that Radiant Lake was fully booked on Thursday, August 20.   It's a nice lake but I was a little dubious that it would be fully booked on a weeknight.  However the kicker was finding that Gouinlock was also fully booked for the same night.  Sorry, but I am very skeptical that two separate groups would have that lake booked that night -- it seems much more likely that one group has made two bookings to avoid the extra vehicle fee.  We also just finished a week long trip from Opeongo to Canoe Lake and were unable to book Tom Thompson Lake on any date within the period we wanted to do the trip.   The entire schedule for that trip was based on the availability of a site on Little Doe on Monday, August 9 - the only night around that date that a site was available.   However, when we paddled through Tom Thompson on our way to Little Doe it seemed that an awful lot of campsites were empty.    I don't think Little Doe filled up either based on the amount of canoe traffic we saw -- our four some in our early to mid 60's managed to get the prime flat point site at the entrance to the main part of Doe Lake after travelling from Macintosh Lake.

Yeah that's my point, if you are hoping that people won't show up it's not going to happen since there's no one to check in with. The site could be vacant and no one would know . . .

Great notes, thanks!
Also seconding a need for details on Lost Light!  I'm not holding my breath for Jeff to drop his delicious cartography just before I head out.

So what’s the story with the naming of lost light falls