I've enjoyed 3 trips with the Wabakimi Project over the past 5 years, and I thought I'd share some thoughts and photos to help others consider whether to become a "participant".

These trips offer an opportunity for someone who's active and healthy, and anywhere from a novice through an expert paddler, to experience and enjoy a remote Canadian wilderness adventure. Along the way you'll contribute to future Wabakimi paddlers through the work the project does.

The project exists largely to reestablish and document the campsites and portages on these routes, while honoring their remote and rustic nature. The adventure component comes from the remoteness, but also from being with a very small group in two canoes. You'll help in finding historic routes that are often not well documented. This presents a component of the unknown and adds to the sense of adventure, though you are led by an experienced Wabakimi leader. Weather can be fabulous or challenging. The outfitting is professionally planned and managed with safety in mind. The physical work is invigorating but you work at your own level. And there's time for relaxation and fishing.

My photos are from the west, south and northeast ends of the park, where my trips took place starting in 2009.

Great photos Jim. Looks like some of them were from last year on the Attwood River with Bill Pyle. He's a heckuva fisherman and loves his walleye.
Anyone who is interested in a helluva fun time and great paddling trip should take a look at coming on a Wabakimi Project trip. Soon.

Bill and a walleye from Savant Lake 2009

Great photos - thanks for posting them. I know BP is a great fisherman, I have traveled with him for three weeks over two years. If you want a fisherman who can deliver a pickerel dinner when you don't have any entrees left, go with Dick Jenks. The guy can come up with fish dinners when they aren't biting and nobody else can catch anything. Just ask Uncle Phil about the week last September when there was no Pasta primavera entree in the barrel.

Great pics Jim! Love that grin Bill has, with walleyes in the pan (by the streambank erosion-proofed fireplace :). Ray T.