It has been a very long fall in Northern Ontario, but the snow is finally falling tonight. I was looking over my pictures from a couple of weekends ago. My wife and I went out on the Annual Save the Moose Campaign. We didn't expect to get anything, as we were both hunting under calf tags, but the way the system works up here now, it takes about four years to build enough points to get an adult tag. Any excuse to canoe camp for three days with the Snow trekker is good enough for me, to heck with the moose.
We left out house at 4:30 on the Friday night, and arrived at camp around 6:00. That's pretty good, considering it is almost a 60 k drive and a five K paddle with a 20 foot canoe loaded to the hilt.
We got the tent up, got the fire going, and had a few beverages, but not enough to prevent an early start.
Our plan was to paddle for half the day and walk half the day, and that is how it mostly ended up.
We didn't see any fresh sign, but we did see evidence of the one big bull who has been tormenting us for a couple of years now. Perhaps he will be there in a couple of years when we finally have a tag, no-one seems to come to this little corner of the earth. There are several thousand moose hunters from Southern Ontario in the area, but most of them do not get off their quads, and their boats are too big to negotiate the little river.
It was a beautiful day to walk, and the water was low enough to walk for many kilometers along the shore. In the picture below, you can see our camp on the far left.
Anyway, one of these years, I will post a canoe moose hunting report that has a moose in it. We almost got one on the way home, a large cow was standing beside the highway, but I can't afford a new truck, so we avoided it.
We left out house at 4:30 on the Friday night, and arrived at camp around 6:00. That's pretty good, considering it is almost a 60 k drive and a five K paddle with a 20 foot canoe loaded to the hilt.
We got the tent up, got the fire going, and had a few beverages, but not enough to prevent an early start.
Our plan was to paddle for half the day and walk half the day, and that is how it mostly ended up.
We didn't see any fresh sign, but we did see evidence of the one big bull who has been tormenting us for a couple of years now. Perhaps he will be there in a couple of years when we finally have a tag, no-one seems to come to this little corner of the earth. There are several thousand moose hunters from Southern Ontario in the area, but most of them do not get off their quads, and their boats are too big to negotiate the little river.
It was a beautiful day to walk, and the water was low enough to walk for many kilometers along the shore. In the picture below, you can see our camp on the far left.
Anyway, one of these years, I will post a canoe moose hunting report that has a moose in it. We almost got one on the way home, a large cow was standing beside the highway, but I can't afford a new truck, so we avoided it.
