Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: Wabakimi :: Planning Map and Wabakimi Canoe Routes booklet
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jillpine |
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Gaidin53 |
Thinking I’m going to make it a family trip with 4 of us. We don’t mind some challenges but not massively grueling mud bogs or vertical portages. Probably 8 to 10 days 60 to 80 miles. Would be portaging around whitewater and not running it. Definitely looking forward to getting the planner since at this point I don’t have a foundation of Wabakimi knowledge. If I’m flying in I’d question why I’d want to be dropped off in a busy area where an outpost is and the train goes through. Wouldn’t it make more sense when you fly in to get dropped western middle of the park or Northern sections? Ryan |
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goatroti |
deerfoot: "Having been a WP participant on parts of a number of the trips in the route book, I would say you can’t go wrong on any of the trips. I know what I am talking about since Ken B. and I are on the cover. " I'm the guy in the bow, Deerfoot in the stern without the life preserver ;) . We spent a week in 2015 in the Caribou forest east of the park exploring the Big River from Upper Pashowconk Lake to the portage into Moonshine Lake from Reef Lake. One of several routes from Caribou Lake that will take you to spectacular Cliff Lake with its cliff paintings and Phil Cotton's final resting place. |
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deerfoot |
jillpine: "I'm curious - - you two are in the same thread, same canoe, same book cover - did you choose "deer foot" and "goat trot" (cloven-hooved species, albeit one a cervid and one a bovid) at the same time? ;) " Ya sure, the Cheesehead and the Canuck, hands… er I mean hooves across the border. |
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Gaidin53 |
Will be a fun trip to plan no matter what. Ryan |
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Gaidin53 |
I’ve got 2 BWCA trips and one Quetico trip to enjoy this year before I get busy with trip planning for 2023’s trips. I definitely plan ahead though and enjoy the planning and prepping process. Ryan |
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deerfoot |
Whitewater Lk is very large and has a multi-cabin outpost on the far west end where the Ogoki Rv empties into the lake. Don Elliot (Mattice Lake Outfitters in Armstrong) has a multi-cabin outpost on the south shore of the eastern end of Whitewater, which is just a few miles south of Best Island (Wendell Beckwith’s place.) And just west of Best Island is a First Nations Reserve. So you will likely see fly-in fisherman on Whitewater but the lake is so big they will likely be at a distance. So if you flew into Whitewater Lk and were dropped off in the east end you could see the Beckwith cabins and continue eastward on the Ogoki Rv to Whiteclay Lk (where there is another outpost with multiple cabins) and then on to the Ogoki Reservoir where Don Elliot has a multi-cabin outpost. So this trip would have a combination of lake and river travel with floatplane access at each end. With a group of four assuming you have two canoes you would have to use a big plane (Elliot and other outfitters in the Armstrong area have Turbo Otters which can carry two canoes and Beavers can carry only 1 canoe.) But Don Elliot has the outpost camps on Whitwater and the Ogoki Reservoir and you may be able coordinate your flyin/flyout with fisherman going out/in which could reduce your flight costs. This would be a nice trip that could have expensive flight costs. Any flyin trip would likely require the big plane but if you did a flyin and paddle out to a road pickup you would get the bush plane experience and have a nice trip with the much less costly road pickup. Don Elliot - Mattice Lake Outfitters or Bryce Hyer - Wabakimi Outfitters (I think his business is called) could advise you on trip possibilities. A good guy for road shuttles is Clem Quenville of Armstrong. He is a native of the area and seems to have access to road pickups on roads that are closed to public use. Although I probably shouldn’t have mentioned that. Contact info for these guys is on the Friends of Wabakimi website. |
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