I've used a few hacksaw type saws over the years (I have not tried the Boreal21, of which I have heard good things), but eventually switched to a Silky Pocketboy 170. It's smaller and lighter and definitely gets the job done for anything I want to cut. 

Even though the chances of getting caught are slim, I'm in Algonquin to relax, not stress about getting caught. I'll probably have to say goodbye to Algonquin (for the most part) when this goes into effect and plan longer trips to farther away, less absurdly priced locations. La Verendrye in Quebec maybe? 

Both lakes are open to camping again. Dickson reopened last June, not sure when Ryan was reopened. If they're closed for fishing I saw no notices of that posted anywhere when I passed through them last July. 

They also have a thing for opening reservations on the Thursday for trips starting on Friday (if I'm remembering correctly, which maybe I'm not). They won't open reservations when "we can see ice out coming", they'll open reservations when they've confirmed ice-out with a flyover and declared an opening date. 

Before that they ended up having to contact hundreds of people to change their bookings - and then maybe do it again - and again, and they finally just threw in the towel on that approach. Before *that* they used to just trust people to make up their own minds about whether or not to go camping in the current conditions instead of deciding that on our behalf. I know there are some campers who are still pretty salty about being 'nannied' to the current extent by the park administration. 

shaggy has it! That's exactly where this picture was taken, Shippagew at the start of the portage to Blue. 

Not Lily Pond.

The maximum number of bookings on this lake is 1.

Not Tim Lake. 

Not Travers.