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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...

Great trip report and photos - they bring back many memories of my trips there. Thinking of bears, my experience in the Wabakimi area is that while there are many there, I have only ever seen one in the bush and that was at a distance across a small lake. We would regularly encounter evidence...

I remember a great campsite on the west shore of Snake Lk. It was probably the best campsite I ever encountered in the Wabakimi area in about 30 weeks of trips over 20 years. It had a real nice rocky point for the tarp and fire ring, with level and very thick moss covered tent sites in the...

I have had my Wilderness (T-Formex) about 5 years. I bought it lightly used from the original owner. My intention was to use it on the rocky streams in the UP. Never got around to that and now most of my canoeing is base camping with friends in tandems. The Wilderness carries my camping gear...

It’s time to move on from this topic and get back what we usually discuss here. Me, I am looking forward to meeting up with many of my paddling buddies at Canoecopia next month. We’ll drink too much beer and retell our exaggerated stories while planning this year’s trips.

In NW Ontario, Lake Nipigon (about 1900 sq miles in size) is referred to as the sixth Great Lake and often freezes over in the winter.

I can check with my buddy who served as a torpedoman on a boomer out of Sub Base Charleston SC in the 1970’s. And their uniform device is known as the dolphins.

Missile silos.

UP of Michigan for me. I have several friends up there who should welcome me, I hope.

The local nature center has a number of OT Discovery canoes with the hogging issue but no interior cracks. A few years ago we got several new boats that soon developed hogged hulls. We assume it is because they are stored outdoors year around. For rental use it doesn’t make any difference to the...

I agree with the Original Bug Shirt - I’ve had mine for 10-12 years and it is very well traveled but unused so far. In over 20 years of padding in Canada I can think of just one trip before I bought it where I wished I had had it.

On a Wabakimi Project trip many years ago Uncle Phil used a small Coleman stove to dry out our tents. 2009 was a very rainy year in NW Ontario and after a few days our tents became sodden. We erected the tents and while they were empty he carefully placed the stove in the tent while it was in a...

Recped thanks for the helpful link from NRS on detecting fraudulent websites. I am an occasional NRS consumer and will definitely have to be careful when placing orders (I often do so hurriedly).

In 2017 a buddy and I encountered a Keewaydin group coming upstream on the Kopka Rv. They were doing a 28 day trip in their old w/c boats. I asked one of their trip leaders how their boats were holding up. During the time frame of this trip, mid-July to the first week of August, there was little...