On www.myccr.com

For anyone interested in tripping on the Albany River, there's a report on the Petuwa Creek shortcut from the Albany to the Attwood River at the top of Attwood and Hurst Lakes.

http://www.myccr.com/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=42036

we paddled the petawa creek in 1976. at that time we had no info at all on this route. we met some native canadians (first nation, whatever you call them) on petawanga lake who explained that they used this route infrequently but that it was used by them to access the rivers and lakes south of the albany. it was just barely passable and was easily the toughest canoing i had done in my life. to add to the misery we were paddling wood/canvas chestnut prospectors.

Hey Ken, Has the Project ever cleared through that route? (sounds like not, or some years back) Seems like Phil will be on to a different sector next season, but that would be a fun one to clear and map...

Petawa Creek was our backup link to the south, if we couldn't find a connection between the Misehkow and Greenmantle Rivers and had to continue on to the Albany. The Greenmantle was tough enough, but I have never heard anything good about Petawa Creek.

Knowing its location to be a critical link, it must have been FAR more travelled in earlier times.

Ray,
What route is that?
The Petawa Creek route has been started at the top and bottom. It's the stuff in the middle that needs to be done. We probably need a team of four guys wanting to work hard for a full week to get that open. Are you up for it? 2014?

The Attwood is open from one end to the other I believe. Bill Pyle did the Shabuskwia via Luella to Attwood section early this summer. The rest to Gowie Bay and the Albany River was done last year.

Yep, I'd be up to help on that Petawa Creek stretch. I did a couple weeks in June, this past summer, with Phil and Bill and others on the stretch from Shab to Luella. I can probably get time in June or July, 2014.

Shabuskwia thru Luella to Attwood was a GNARLY route when I went through there years ago. Glad it's been re-cut.

quote mrcanoe: "On www.myccr.com

For anyone interested in tripping on the Albany River, there's a report on the Petuwa Creek shortcut from the Albany to the Attwood River at the top of Attwood and Hurst Lakes.

http://www.myccr.com/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=42036

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Petawa Creek adventure in this report:

http://littlenorthcanoetrip.blogspot.com/

it took us 14 hours to track up this short creek in very high water. we did not use the lower portage, only the portage into Auger, plus one we bushwhacked around a huge jam.

the creek gets such little use and is so easily clogged by blowdowns and sweepers, i question how much time should be spent on it. there was old chainsaw work evident when we went through, probably decades old.

the trees we cut just to get through had to be in the hundreds. the previous party using Petawa Creek two years earlier quit when they got to Auger, and called Mattice to fly out, they were done in.

i nearly clipped off my left thumb with a Corona saw while tracking the creek, and we had a hard freeze at our moose track camp, some wild times in there.

the party in the more recent myccr report came down the Misehkow to the Albany as we did, although we started over near 599. they had much more favorable conditions, not the extreme late season high water we did. Wabakimi Project participants may remember that year as the season Phil had to retreat from the Albany, it wasn't safe. amen to that.

I remember reading that trip report, Jdrocks. It was a good one and that was one tough haul! I think your point about sometimes questionable value of clearing carries on the smaller streams is valid... There will always be shifting logjams that necessitate new carries. But we can at least make the carries around more permanent rapids, etc., a bit easier. Also, part of the point is to get the routes into the Project books and onto the values maps so that the forest planners are aware of them. I wonder if Phil already used your info for that....

Route information re Petawa Creek will be included in Volume Four (Albany River & Southern Tributaries--Patte Lake to Abazotikichuan Lake) to be released later this Fall. The Wabakimi Project is indebted to 'contributors' such a jdrocks and true-north for their efforts to help document this historic cross-over route.

Not too much gets by that guy in Thunder Bay!

Hey Dave.... it's been a long time since I visited this site...I hope all is well with you :) I remember very well our trip up the Petawa...a very rememberable trip under very challenging conditions. I'm sure glad that thumb stayed attached...there was blood flowing down the Petewa. We were river left, Dave was cutting a tree sticking out over the water with the bow line in one hand...me at the stern in deep fast moving water...nothing I could do...

Chuck

21 Day Canoe Trip to the "Little North"

Debbie Doyle, a multi-time participant on The Wabakimi Project has posted a trip report re: the route up the Opichuan River into Kagagamiani Lake on www.myccr.com

If you're interested in taking one of the project's trips, this report gives you a good idea of what goes on.

quote CIIcanoe: "Hey Dave...I'm sure glad that thumb stayed attached...there was blood flowing down the Petewa...
Chuck


21 Day Canoe Trip to the "Little North" "

chuck, so was i, i kinda needed that thumb. i've got an ugly scar that has Petawa written on it...plus a story to tell. would make an interesting thumbprint, the two halves don't exactly line up.

was thinking of you as i scouted rivers in NW Canada this year, Alberta, northern BC, YT, and up near the NWT border. it was a reminder, 50 years in Canada, and i've paddled only a tiny part of it.

i check your photo page every so often to see what you're up to. all else well, planning trips for next season.