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Starting
out at the Brent boat launch. As
you can see it was a cloudy day. Threatened
rain all day but didn’t but the wind was blowing pretty good crossing
Cedar Lake. |
Ed and Jay crossing Cedar Lake
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Portaging, portaging, portaging up the Petawawa to Catfish
Lake. |
Our first camp on Catfish Lake. The guys hit
the lakes after a hard day's work. Hey, where are the chicks! |
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Our camp on Catfish Lake. |
Portaging over to Hogan Lake
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The trip starts with two days of hard portaging from Cedar
Lake to Hogan lake. I carried along a pint of Jim Beam to
celebrate to occasion. |
The camp on Hogan Lake
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The
next day dawned bright and sunny. Mike
said it was a brochure day in that the trip was living up to its
advertisement. |
A nice shot of Bob going up the channel to the portage
from Hogan to Lake La Muir |
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A nice shot of Don as we approach the portage to La Muir |
Ed, Jay, and Al at the portage to Lake La Muir. It
was a long way up the marshes to the portage. |
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Don, Bill, Ed, and Jim on a portage to somewhere? |
Bob and Mike at the La Muir side of the portage |
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Al and Jim starting the trip up Lake La Muir |
Mike and Bob resting after a hard paddle up La Muir |
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Al and Jim at the La Muir rest stop |
Mike portaging over to Burnt Root |
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Our camp on Burnt Root Lake |
That night the sunset was spectacular |
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Ed
and Jay baked some of their fabulous pies.
I bet Martha Stewart could not have done better |
The trip continues as we work our way down
the Petawawa
River back to Catfish Lake. |
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Ed and Jay gliding down the Petawawa |
Our camp back on Catfish Lake. A nice shot of the
group. The picture must have been taken by Mike. |
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Heading out the next morning you get a nice perspective of
the camp on Catfish Lake. What a great place to pitch a tent. |
So
then we do this ridiculously long portage over to the Nippissing River to
make our exit from the park. Here we are at the end beginning our
trip downriver.
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As always, moose are where you find them. They waited until the
last day of the trip to make their appearance, but they put on a good
show.
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Another shot of the moose climbing onto the shore.
Bill is performing a complex J stroke, pry, draw, swirl maneuver with the
paddle.
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Alas, back in civilization at the Brent boat launch.
Everyone has their shoes on already, except me. |
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