Recent content by jdeerfoot

I am a real long time Yakima user. My experience was similar to yours. Check with customer service but put the time in experimenting on your own.

Some good ideas above to try out. Let us know what you work out.

As I noted in another Canoecopia thread, almost all stock at the show is Rutabaga stock. Or at least it used be that way. I worked at the show four different years (2019 being the last time) and that was how it was explained to me. One year I bought a pair of Piragis canoe pants which I had to...

Kate Prince, the coordinator of the Friends of Wabakimi Caribou Monitoring Project, is one of the new co-owners of Headwaters Canoe. She will probably be at Canoecopia.

Yes, there are a few out there but those family members aren’t on this board - lucky me. I remember introducing some nephews to gunnel bobbing - two people balance one on each end of a canoe and bounce the canoe up and down until one of them falls off. I quit doing this after I fell onto the...

Just wondering what your rack set cost you (if you care to disclose). I may be looking at a newer vehicle and would be in need of a new rack, or used if I could locate one.

Welcome to the site from another cheesehead from SE Wisconsin.

Further regarding port maintenance, you may want call the park office in Thunder Bay ON and talk to the park superintendent, Shannon Lawr. I just checked the park website and it appears the superintendent position is vacant. But there are other staff that can advise you on this.

Regarding portage maintenance within Wabakimi PP - I wouldn’t expect much. If the park does port maintenance like they traditionally did it, they might have 2-2 person crews out during the season. And they probably concentrate on the popular routes the outfitters send their clients out on. For...

Gamma, what will slow you down would be stopping at every possible campsite and fishing below each drop. Likely campsites in the greater Wabakimi area, of which there are not a lot, often exist near rocky points which often have a noticeable fire ring. I always thought that part of the...

Gamma, you have done an amazing amount of planning and prep for your trip. I feel like I have learned a lot from your planning process. Too bad I have probably aged out of this type of trip.

Excellent trip report, thanks for sharing.

Aslowhand, your enjoyable trip report is reminding me of a 2009 trip down the Albany Rv. 2009 was an extrembly rainy summer in NW Ontario. On that trip we noted overnight water levels coming up by several inches. Our last nights campsite was on a sandy point of land that became a small island...

I remember using something like the above instrument in a basic cartography class. Somewhere in the basement I should have some of the maps I had to create. I kept them because they were so much work to create - nothing computerized or digital in the early 1970's.

ppine, I totally agree. My paddling history was much like yours - a few BW trips of a week or so and many years of spring/fall long weekend trips to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I was fortunate to be able to retire early and shortly afterward I connected with the Wabakimi Project and started...