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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Group Forum: Wabakimi Little Caribou Lake access update |
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11/18/2020 12:14PM
From a most reputable source in the area:
MTO has replaced the bridge across Little Caribou Creek and thereby eliminated the parking spaces there and access to Little Caribou Lake. If your members (meaning Friends of Wabakimi) use this access and wish to complain about its loss, you should write or call Nick at 807-473-2053, Nick.Badolato@ontario.ca
Perhaps they would do something to recreate the access point or provide money towards it. In any case, do not plan to launch any trips there.
MTO has replaced the bridge across Little Caribou Creek and thereby eliminated the parking spaces there and access to Little Caribou Lake. If your members (meaning Friends of Wabakimi) use this access and wish to complain about its loss, you should write or call Nick at 807-473-2053, Nick.Badolato@ontario.ca
Perhaps they would do something to recreate the access point or provide money towards it. In any case, do not plan to launch any trips there.
03/26/2021 11:03AM
That's too bad. If memory serves, there is an access point, or small two track just a hundred yards or so before you reach the bridge where the road is also a little wider. I don't remember if it was possible to get a car in there, but a truck would have made it.
Mark
Mark
04/03/2021 08:49AM
Is he (Clem) with an outfitter or do you contact him separately, i.e. as a private entrepreneur? It sounds like it would be risky to leave your car at the put-in for Little Caribou.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
04/03/2021 09:53PM
Yes Clem is a good guy and very reliable. I met him on my first trip with Phil in Sept 2007. I was the first to scramble up the bank of the Big River to the logging road bridge and came face to face with him. He looked me up and down and said " you're from Wisconsin aren't you?" and I didn't even have my cheesehead hat on. Very perceptive, highly recommended.
09/27/2021 09:57PM
Yes it is on the road that crosses the creek arm of little caribou and the road continues west to Caribou. The picture was actually looking in an East/Southeast direction. If it was me, and I wasn't using an outfitter, I'd ask somebody at the nearby house/lodge if they would take $20 or $50 to park my vehicle there, rather than leave it near the bridge. I had Bruce from Wabakimi Outfitters pick me up in my own truck. Thanks for the comment on the Sea Winds. Catted together we had no problem on some pretty sporty conditions on Smoothrock, that would have been extremely challenging in a typical tandem canoe.
10/06/2021 12:17PM
mkdixon: "Hi Joe, I'm a fan of Kruger boats. I have a home built faux Sea Wind. I'm sure you know my friend Norm here in Livingston, also a Kruger boat afficianado."
Yes, I have seen your beautiful boat on the Mighty MO in many Facebook pics!
Joe
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