New Trip Report posted by TreeBear

Trip Name: In Search of Lost Hope - A PMA Crossing.

Entry Point: 36

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Wow quite the PMA crawl to start the season! My short episodes pushing a canoe through alder thickets has me cursing in no time and so I wonder how you two keep your minds at ease (especially knowing your attitudes towards bug management and how many gnats and mosquitos were probably out there). I also wonder the last time anyone had been through those parts - certainly not many people during the past 10 years.. And from the sounds of it you might've been better off doing a hiking trip during the first half!

Impressive accomplishment. What a cool trip! Thank you for including the pics of the remote places you visited. You are an adept writer and I enjoy reading your reports. This adventure in particular reminded me of the explorer Adam Shoalts and his wilderness canoe excursions - I know his are much longer, but made me think of it. Thanks for sharing!

Great report! Sometimes I feel pampered in the Bdub, what with fire grates and latrines... I see lots of folks on YouTube (pretty much exclusively Canadians) doing much more difficult routes and think I need to earn my stripes by roughing it a bit more. I just want it to mean something, like to go through a beautiful area rarely seen by others, instead of just enduring bug hell and risking getting lost or injured. Not sure if this is the PMA route for me, but it sure helped me wrap my head around one of the ways it could go. Thanks for sharing!!

Morchella: "Wow quite the PMA crawl to start the season! My short episodes pushing a canoe through alder thickets has me cursing in no time and so I wonder how you two keep your minds at ease (especially knowing your attitudes towards bug management and how many gnats and mosquitos were probably out there). I also wonder the last time anyone had been through those parts - certainly not many people during the past 10 years.. And from the sounds of it you might've been better off doing a hiking trip during the first half!"

Gnats don't bite.

Holy crow what a hike! I'm sure you're gonna have some great NTL next off season! Great writing too, I felt like I was there as I followed along on the map.
We are doing part of weeny lake PMA in August but only as a day trip. Reading this has put my mind a little more at ease, we only have 1 or two sections of bushwacking rather than the several miles you did. Very impressive!

Another great report! Finding "stuff" out there always get my imagination going. It would be interesting to hear from Jackpine Jim & Tomahawk about the area you passed through. They are so full of knowledge about the logging days.

As always, well written & I appreciate you taking the time to share your monumental adventures. God's speed.

Great report! These kind of trips have always intrigued me. I feel though I'm probably too old for this kind of venture these days.

Good report. It's well written and certainly held my attention as you and your partner bushwhacked up all of those streams, ridges and swamps! Did you keep a GPS track of your route? That would be interesting to see :)

Mad props to you! 11 hours of bushwhacking in one day is quite the feat. That is some brutal travel conditions. Your description of how easy the regular portages felt afterwards rang a bell. I've never complained about a portage path since doing a rarely traveled PMA. Thanks for writing it up and congratulations on making it to a PMA namesake lake!