It has a poor rocky landing (will depend on water levels), there's nowhere at the shore to reliably store canoes, a very steep rocky incline up to the site, the site itself is tiny and had zero seating by the very small fire pit when I visited. You can get your tent pitched but otherwise there wasn't a single thing that I enjoyed about the site personally. I have pictures for both campsites on my website but I'm guessing you saw that already if you browsed the PCI

Madawaska leading into Radiant

boknows wrote:

trippythings wrote:

It's going to cost a lot more than $100 to get a half-decent setup. You can get a second-hand GoPro Hero 7 for $200ish, which is a very old model at this point but it's as far back as I'd recommend going. But then you'll also need a handful of spare batteries, a charging hub to recharge those batteries, power banks, tripod/selfie stick, a few micro SD cards, and ideally a mount for your canoe. You can go crazy with accessories if you wanted but that would be the minimum setup that I'd recommend.

GoPro is great for POV videos like when you're paddling and portaging or walking around the campsite, but it's not a high-quality camera so it won't excel at things like wildlife, astrophotography, and/or detailed landscape photom
. All action cameras are notoriously bad in low-light settings as well.

Whatever you end up deciding to get, spend a lot of time with it before the trip so you can learn the ins and outs of how to properly use it, before the trip begins.

 
Thanks trippy things. My current plan is just to use GoPro on canoe and views of my campsite for viewers. A good RICH friend of mine has just ordered me the latest GoPro and the accessory package that comes with it includes a windup solar screen to recharge my batteries. Again, I will hopefully have this GoPro thing down pat before trip begins. And what I don't know I hope I can figure out on this 4 month, 125 night trip. This trip is really getting me pumped up and I can't wait for it to begin.

Congrats, enjoy it!

As a long-time GoPro user I can't recommend enough to get a handful of spare batteries and a charging hub to charge them. The batteries I always go with GoPro brand, but the charging hub you can buy a third-party from Amazon. Without the charging hub, you'll need to charge 1 battery at a time while it's inside your GoPro, meaning you can't really use the GoPro while charging. Considering each battery doesn't last very long (and GoPro batteries have

boknows wrote:

Bampot wrote:

Enjoy. Curious to know why you will be spending so many consecutive nights at each lake as opposed to spending 2-3 nights on dozens of different lakes?

 
Mainly for exploration and good fishing!

For a trip of this scale I would imagine moving camp frequently could become pretty exhausting and weather setbacks could throw off the whole itinerary. And psychologically it will probably feel nice having a home with stashed firewood, well-built shelter etc. When I think about 4 months in the backcountry, I think the most challenging part for me would be the mental side of things and having a predictable routine with a few home bases seems like it would really help

Good luck on your journey. I have a feeling 2024 will be the first year we get 125 days of straight sunshine and no wind stronger than 10km/hr

Nitecore is very popular but personally I use the Petzl Actik Core. The things I like about it:

- 3 states of brightness. Lowest brightness I use while sitting by the fire, medium level while walking around camp, strongest level when I need to see far away.

- Lock function to prevent accidentally turning on while packed away

- Accommodates the Petzl rechargeable battery as well as regular AAA. I have two of the rechargeable batteries so that when the first starts to dim, I can swap it with the second one while charging the first with a power bank. I used to bring a set of AAA as backup but I stopped and only bring the two rechargeable ones now.

- Red light mode

- Lightweight and compact enough for canoe trips. We're not the 'ultralight' backpacking crowd.

- Comfortable to wear for extended periods (this is subjective, but for me it's great)

If you're not in a rush to buy it, I've seen them go on sale pretty often.

I use a blue food barrel and have never had a problem with animals or rodents trying to get into it while it's left during a double-carry. It's much more of a problem at campsites where people feed the small wildlife which turns them into a nuisance.

Last year there was an ongoing nuisance bear on the west side of the park. Apparently it had learned that food was being left at the portage landings and would get into people's food supply while they were doing their double-carry. I was told the bear was eventually captured and put down. There were cubs with the bear that were put into rehabilitation then released back into the wild.

I don't think it's realistic to attempt to hang your food at every portage while you double carry, so the best option is to use a hard-sided storage container (or something like an Ursack or BearVault) and hope for the best.

Make noise while you're portaging to let wildlife know that you're around. Especially if you're travelling solo. I like to bang on the canoe repeatedly during my canoe carry, and during my other carry, I'll either have some music playing and/or randomly yell some noises.

I would avoid trying to hide the food underneath an overturned canoe (I've seen people do this, even overnight at a campsite). The last thing I need is for my only method of water travel to be the only barrier standing between a bear and it's desired food.

Mangotasi / Hornbeam?

Eoin Sandison wrote:

Peek wrote:

Lol I knew it was a troll

And while I didn't report you, I would.

Thanks to your website I have a good idea of where your trips will be next year. I can't wait to run into you in person.

PS - wear a life jacket bud!
 

Life jackets, which are different from PFD's, are not required. And PFD's are not required to be worn, only in the boat with you.