Did the trip this past weekend.
Wind on Big Trout on Friday caused us to not make it all the way up to Burntroot, but instead, Red Pine.
Due to a friend's rolled ankle, we ended up going to Hogan on Night 2 and continued on to Big Crow cabin for night 3.
The route would have worked in a perfect world, but the wind and the injury caused us to change plans. It wasn't very busy on any of the lakes, so didn't feel too bad about camping on different lakes (we never put anyone out of a campsite that's for sure).
We likely won't be planning out such long days again in the future in an effort to avoid having to change our route on the go.

Big Crow cabin was not near as bad as what I thought it was going to be based on posts above. The deck was recently done (within the last year, maybe 2). The Maine common room inside and the cabinets and table were all painted this year. Aside from a sweep it was pretty tidy. My two friends slept in the one room I slept in the other they said they heard a mouse I heard nothing. There was a mouse trap left in the cabin but we didn't set it up, we saw no evidence of mouse scat.
As it was a cloudy/rainy day it was perfect. We took the table and chairs out to the deck to play cards and dice when the weather was nice and we were able to get up quickly and packed to be on the water for 6am and made it back to Proulx portage just before 830am and ended up catching the taxi back an hour earlier than our scheduled pickup as they were dropping off another group.

Aside from wind it was a pretty great trip!

We saw the MOE float plane land and drop off a canoe (and maybe some gear) to a site on Happy Isle.
I then got a GREAT video of the plane taking off again as the pilot saw I was taking a video and gave us a nice low and close "fly-by"!

andrewr0520 wrote:

Hey all,

I have a front wheel drive sedan, just wondering if the road is relatively passable into access 3 for May 9? Is it typically doable around then? 

It's another year this year, but I've been through around this time of year before and didn't see any issues with any cars being able to make it in.  However mother nature is unpredictable.

breed85 wrote:

After further review, we've decided to do the 1st route.
Night 1 - Burntroot
Night 2 - Calumet
Night 3 - Big Crow (check to see if the ranger cabin is available).

Thanks for all of the great insight/helpful comments, much appreciated!

Well the ranger cabin was available for our last night so, that'll be a new first for all of us (staying in a ranger cabin).
Now, just need to wait 3 months!

#1 - Footwear - Break them in well before you go on your hike.
#2 - Well fitting backpack; should feel like a monkey on your back; snug to the body, no space between your body and the pack.

Little Misty?

Hi All,

Looking at booking our annual trip for mid-late July this summer.
This is a 4 day, 3 night trip. Our first day we typically start out early and our last day we typically aim to be out early.
We typically wake up and break camp early.  We prefer have as much time as possible to reach our destination and then relax if we get there early.

We were planning on starting out at Opeongo and getting water taxi to the North Arm.

We're debating between two loops:
1st loop would take us through Big Trout, Burntroot, down the Petawawa, to Hogan and then out through Proulx to Opeongo for water taxi back to Opeongo landing.

2nd loop would take us through Big Trout, la Muir, Hogan and then out through Proulx.

Just wondering if the 1st option is doable.  We're experienced campers and pretty experienced paddlers, we generally make pretty good time.  Wondering what the opinion of someone who's been through this part of the park before would be.

Trying to also decide on where to camp on each day.

Thanks in advance.

geologicaldust wrote:

@breed85. Wow! Hope nothing important was damaged in the storm!

Did you fish Misty by any chance?

I have another post about this in response to someone inquiring about a weather radio.
They experienced the same storm.
A tree missed our tent by about a foot, I lost my rod holder and my rod tip got snapped, we got pretty lucky.
I've since invested in an InReach Mini.

I didn't get much of a chance to fish Misty...

RobW wrote:

Correct - bass opens the last weekend of June so the 18th would be too early for bass fishing. 

Just a "technical" correction to this, as this year is one of those anomaly years.
Bass opener is the 4th Saturday in June which is June 22nd this year (the second to last weekend in June this year).