Just booked my first fly-in trip to Adventure Lake for 10 nights in July. Harlan is the man.

I am pumped!

Good for you - I have not to been to Adventure...it's on my list, someday. Looking forward to the Trip Report later in the summer!

Great! I'll be spending some time fishing Adventure lake in June. It will be my first fly-in trip as well. I'm flying in to Haven.

Looking forward to hearing all about it. This will be our first time in the park, wife and I. She's not quite as excited as I am but if the fishing and weather are decent she'll have a blast.

I flew into Adventure Lake last June. All burned except one of the islands. I was solo, and was able to find a spot to squeeze my hammock in at the site. Good fishing for Lake Trout, and I caught my biggest Northern there.
Enjoy your trip, I'm a bit jealous.

I posted a highlight video from last years trip. The beginning is flying into, and the campsite on, Adventure Lake. The first few fish are from Adventure, as is the monster pike. The pike is shown after the portage out of Adventure, I was trying to mix up camp/paddle/portage/fish sequences!

2018 WCPP Highlight Video

gymcoachdon: "I posted a highlight video from last years trip. The beginning is flying into, and the campsite on, Adventure Lake. The first few fish are from Adventure, as is the monster pike. The pike is shown after the portage out of Adventure, I was trying to mix up camp/paddle/portage/fish sequences!


2018 WCPP Highlight Video "

Nice video, good memories. When you do a solo fly-in and that plane drops you off in the middle of nowhere, it is a memorable experience. It is much different than starting from an EP.

gymcoachdon: "I posted a highlight video from last years trip. The beginning is flying into, and the campsite on, Adventure Lake. The first few fish are from Adventure, as is the monster pike. The pike is shown after the portage out of Adventure, I was trying to mix up camp/paddle/portage/fish sequences!


2018 WCPP Highlight Video "

Very cool video, thanks for sharing. Looks like you had a great trip and great weather.

There was the most amazing calm mornings I have experienced, Paddling in that area, in those conditions, was magical. Unfortunately, those conditions were from a high pressure that brought record breaking heat! When Harlan picked me up, he said it had been 35 Celsius, 95 degrees in mid June in Northwest Ontario! By noon each day, I had to find shade, take a swim, and rehydrate. Totally different experience from previous year dealing with near hypothermia during the same time of year!

gymcoachdon: "There was the most amazing calm mornings I have experienced, Paddling in that area, in those conditions, was magical. Unfortunately, those conditions were from a high pressure that brought record breaking heat! When Harlan picked me up, he said it had been 35 Celsius, 95 degrees in mid June in Northwest Ontario! By noon each day, I had to find shade, take a swim, and rehydrate. "

Those days do happen. I remember a similar experience a few years back when the temp reached 97 degrees while staying on Donald. Much of the day was spent in the shade, making the walk down to the lake and soaking for a bit, then returning to the shade (rinse and repeat). We had the added "benefit" of having a bit of smoke in the air from a fire further north. (It was hot, even for this Texan!)

I couple of days later, we encountered two rangers engaged in portage clearing on the stretch between Haggart and Garner Lakes. We were joined by the rangers as we took a rest stop on a small island. They had debated whether to call for an air lift back to Red Lake because the older ranger had been suffering from heat exhaustion for a couple of days. They were hanging on only because they had brought some electrolytes with them. (Frankly, I'm not sure where they would have set a plane down on that stretch ..."maybe" Jester? ... but we were closer to Haggart.)

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