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Fortunately, I still have my vision. Without using my 2 Cochlear implants I am totally deaf. Due to the very high cost of these devices, I can not risk wearing them on the water. While using them I can hear but I miss a lot of nuisance. But I can remember what things sound like. As a result, I...

The trip I just completed last week in Canada has me really thinking my tripping days on those kinds of trips may be coming to an end. I had noticeable problems with agility and strength. The strength I can do something about, the agility probably not so much. In a couple of months I will be 77...

Great story. I was thinking this guy had a new traveling companion.

We started with a drop off at the south end of Harris Lk and continued on into Harold Lk, staying the first night on the 5 star campsite on a small island about half way up the lake. The next day we went into Handy Lk intending to connect to the South Arm of Savant Lk. Unfortunately, the...

I have been in NW Ontario twice this year, on crown lands to the east of Wabakimi PP in June and last week on crown lands to the west of the park. In neither area did we notice any evidence of the fires to the west. This is the first time in the past few years we did encounter any evidence of...

Just got back from a 7 day trip to the Crown Lands west of Wabakimi PP with Canadian friends from the Wabakimi Project days. One of them picked a route he did in 2009 or 2010. By day 2 it was apparent we could not proceed further as the portages had grown in and were impassable for us with a...

My buddy and I have a couple of our own little secluded spots that nobody seems to know or care about. Like Alan, we can go there and it appears no one has visited since we were last there.They are nothing special but we like them for the solitude.

A long time paddling buddy lives near Boulder Junction. This lake is one of a number within NHAL (Northern Highland American Legion St Forest) which are undeveloped. A local naturalist recently published a book detailing the many lakes like this. But please don’t tell anyone. Can’t find my copy...

No carpal tunnel syndrome for me yet, but I have developed osteoarthritis in my L hand. My middle finger is noticeably swollen and often warm to the touch. I have to paddle with the finger extended because the joint closest to the finger tip is frozen and doesn’t bend. Just the latest body part...

The way I view salvaged canoe parts is, I can always toss them. But for now I am hanging on to them. Now I usually keep them in my garage at home. Several times I have lost parts stored at the nature center garage/workshop due to another volunteer deciding to clear out the junk in the shop.

Some really nice photos. I have never paddled with mountains in the background - beautiful!

Sawzall with a wood blade (coarse teeth). If the boat has meta gunwales I use a metal blade. I turned one old OT Discovery into 2 bookcases. The wife makes me keep mine in the basement.

I have traveled in the greater Wabakimi area annually starting in 2007, except for the Covid years, to the current time. My trips have taken place from May through September. As previous posters have noted, your proposed route will take you past outpost fish camps. My experience has been that by...

Through 15 years of trips in NE Ontario, Wabakimi and Crown Lands, we have come across numerous destroyed and abandoned aluminum boats and canoes. Some of this debris was pretty dramatic, like the 3 ft bow piece of a Grumman canoe which looked like it had been blown off in an explosion. There...

When I first started going to Canada for trips in 2007, I learned the outfitter who flew us in had his office staff collect our car keys, wallets and passports which were bagged and locked in their safe. Great idea, considering the other things that various trip mates lost while traveling in the...

I have a Wenonah Wilderness solo (15’6”) in T-formex that weighs 54#. A great river boat and very tough. I bought it very lightly used intending to use it in the rocky streams of the UP. But I have only been up there a couple times and probably won’t be doing much of that kind of padding...

Over the years: a plastic Casio watch (found in early spring just after ice out, so it had spent the winter under the fallen leaves; numerous tent pegs; a few pieces of line left in trees; and a well used but still functional lock blade knife. On a Wabakimi trip in 2008 I found a nice military...

I recently returned from a trip to the Wabakimi area. We had to cut the trip short after one of our party suffered cardiac problems. We were able to get him out to a logging road where he was picked up by an ambulance from Armstrong ON. Accompanying the ambulance was an Ontario Provincial Police...

As I recall a paddling buddy told me that on older Subies when you changed the coolant a special additive had to be used to avoid leaking head gaskets.

For the last 12 years I have been maintaining a fleet of about 15-16 canoes and about 30 kayaks at the local nature center where I am a volunteer. The place gets regular donations of mostly canoes and some kayaks. A fair number of the canoes are junk so I salvage whatever parts I may be able to...