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| Trip Planning » Last year 62 straight days camping » 4/04/2024 3:09 pm |
Wow! Good for you Bo!! Posting on FB will allow for a 'meet up', perhaps.
| Trip Planning » Aylen River » 1/23/2024 5:03 pm |
We tried, but failed, to find the 18a put-in this past August. The weeds and tall grasses in the clearing were dense and waist high. There were some ATV tracks that I walked trying to find the put-in, but I definitely wasn't going to drive our Toyota van into that area. And, I never did see a clearing at the lake. There is a moderate embankment with trees and bushes along the shoreline. I couldn't see an easy way down to the lake. Maybe it will be easier in the spring.
Also, we tried paddling the Aylen River from the 980 M portage south to the first swift. We never made it. It was too shallow. But this was August.
| Trip Planning » MNR - AFA Annual Work Schedule Maps » 3/25/2023 1:55 pm |
Thanks for posting Barry. As usual, I feel sick to my stomach looking at the map 
| Trip Planning » When are the bugs coming this spring? » 5/17/2022 4:23 pm |
It's time for the perennial comment on this type of thread......
Beginning of May, no bugs! End of May, lots of bugs!!!
| Trip Planning » Gouinlock Lake » 6/18/2021 1:33 pm |
When camping on Gouinlocks, beware of an annoying generator noise coming from the cottage on Little Cauchon near the port!!
Markus wrote extensively about this, and his follow up communications with The Park, in a trip-log several years ago.
| Trip Planning » Maple or Erables » 6/08/2021 8:15 am |
I'd recommend staying on Erables as well. It's nice campsites are more spread out than on Maple.
| Trip Planning » 2021-2022 AFA Schedule of Operations Map » 5/09/2021 9:03 am |
Yes, thanks Barry. It is useful. But sickening as usual :-( Especially those summer haul roads! :-(
| Trip Planning » Bonfield / Dickson portage » 7/22/2020 7:20 pm |
I wouldn't call the Dickson-Bonfield portage 'tough'. As Jd says, it's long, but it doesnt' have any difficult sections. If you have lightweight gear, and minimal food, it's a doable single carry. With a 5 minute rest every 20 mins or so, it will take about 1 hr and 45 mins.
| Trip Reports » Part of a trip log by Mark Rubino of an AA gathering in 2007 on Booth » 8/20/2019 9:27 pm |
Ah yes, I remember it well.
What people don't realize now is that there was very little in the way of pictures/photos of the people in the online community. In fact, many trip logs were just text. So upon meeting people for the first time that you've corresponded with, you got to see what they looked like! Sometimes you saw what you were expecting, at other times, not so much :-)
| Trip Planning » Provoking Lake » 8/20/2019 9:18 pm |
We canoed into Provoking two years ago in October. We parked at the East Beach of LOTR as the Park couldn't confirm that the gate at Two Rivers campground wouldn't be locked up for the season while we were in the interior!
The 900m portage, uphill on the way in, is very defined, but as previously noted, slippery when wet!
The campsites we aimed for were on the north shore of the lake, just west of the portage. As you exit the small bay and enter the main body of the lake, turn right. There are some large, hemlock forested sites available along the shore.
Theses sites worked well for the shoulder season camping, but I wouldn't recommend them in the summer months.
| Trip Planning » Parking/Unloading/Launching at Sunday Creek (Access Point #10) » 8/05/2019 5:58 pm |
Stop your car on the south side of HWY 60 just east of the bridge over Sunday Creek and unload your gear. The road is wider there due to the right turn lane for the Visitor's Centre. You'll be launching onto the creek from the south side of the culvert, east of the bridge. You can carry it down to the put in at the creek right away if you want. Then you have to drive your car back and park it at the Spruce Bog Boardwalk parking lot. And then walk back along the highway to the put in. Have a good trip!
| Trip Planning » Cranebill lake campsite » 7/18/2019 3:29 pm |
I've stayed on that site and I really like it. A cosy campsite on a secluded lake. BUT, there's only room (and level ground) for one tent without getting very creative.
| Trip Planning » Tim River In; Petawawa River Out » 6/12/2019 7:51 am |
Three things I can offer:
1) The portage from the Tim River up to Shah Lake has some steep climbing in spots.
2) Shah Lake only has one nice campsite (the point on the eastern shore).
3) Misty Lake is great!
| Trip Planning » Suggestions wanted: Quintessential Ontario Canoe Trip » 4/11/2018 3:22 pm |
Ralph Bice Lake and Rain Lake access points (#3 & #4) can be really crowded in the summer too!
So I would say use HWY 60 and do the Pen Lake trip.
OR, drive a bit farther... to Shall Lake access, and spend two nights on Booth Lake, or Shirley Lake.
Less crowded still, and both lakes are beautiful with many nice campsites. (although you may hear logging trucks while on Shirley Lake).
| Trip Planning » Bug Season » 3/29/2018 4:15 pm |
It's that time of year for the old saying...... "The first of May... no bugs. The end of May... lots of bugs."
| Trip Planning » Sawyer lake campsites » 3/29/2018 4:10 pm |
Ditto.. vanslyke. By far the best one for summer tripping is at the east end of the lake.
| Trip Planning » Canoe route ideas for a 5- and 7-year-old's first trip » 1/30/2018 5:56 pm |
Shirley Lake is also a great trip with young children! Several very good campsites. And the lake is big enough for a couple of days exploring.
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