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Hey All,
New to the Forum, but had one of my most amazing canoe trips Summer 2013 in Ontario Canada. We had seen the Chiniguchi trip in Kevin Callan's Ontario's lost canoe routes book. A friend of mine whose daughter is getting married with in the year asked if I would like to join him. My daughter has had a lot of river canoe trip camping experience in Pa, but had never done any Canadian Tripping. The two girls did not know each other at all before the trip (this could have been a disaster), but they hit it off amazingly.
It was about a 11 hour drive for us, but well worth it. After picking up some maps in Sudbury we were off to an area that none of us had paddled before. We put in on Matagamasi Lake put on through to Wolf Lake camped there. It was so nice we did a layover the first day right there on Wolf Lake. The next day we traveled clear up to Chiniguchi lake and camped along a beautiful sandy beach. It was there that we ran into a traditional camping group, the Wabun Group. They have been traditional camping with Red Wood Canvas canoes, Wanigans, Canvas Bags and Wanigans.
Our return trip to Wolf took us down a middle route of lakes that had poorly marked portages, but beautiful scenery. That was a 8 lake seven portage day; it was well worth it.
Having trouble getting pics up. I'll check on how to care for that.
Good to be on the forum
Doug
New to the Forum, but had one of my most amazing canoe trips Summer 2013 in Ontario Canada. We had seen the Chiniguchi trip in Kevin Callan's Ontario's lost canoe routes book. A friend of mine whose daughter is getting married with in the year asked if I would like to join him. My daughter has had a lot of river canoe trip camping experience in Pa, but had never done any Canadian Tripping. The two girls did not know each other at all before the trip (this could have been a disaster), but they hit it off amazingly.
It was about a 11 hour drive for us, but well worth it. After picking up some maps in Sudbury we were off to an area that none of us had paddled before. We put in on Matagamasi Lake put on through to Wolf Lake camped there. It was so nice we did a layover the first day right there on Wolf Lake. The next day we traveled clear up to Chiniguchi lake and camped along a beautiful sandy beach. It was there that we ran into a traditional camping group, the Wabun Group. They have been traditional camping with Red Wood Canvas canoes, Wanigans, Canvas Bags and Wanigans.
Our return trip to Wolf took us down a middle route of lakes that had poorly marked portages, but beautiful scenery. That was a 8 lake seven portage day; it was well worth it.
Having trouble getting pics up. I'll check on how to care for that.
Good to be on the forum
Doug
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