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jillpine
08/25/2019 08:23AM
  
Thank you, Mike. Enjoyed hearing the details. Sorry about your tarp!
Interesting to hear about the trapper's old place and the current First Nation person's place. Thanks for writing and sharing!
Beth
 
mpeebles
08/25/2019 03:31PM
  
Anyone know how this report went from Trip Reports to General Discussion?


Thanks.....
 
missmolly
08/26/2019 07:20AM
  
mpeebles: "Anyone know how this report went from Trip Reports to General Discussion?



Thanks....."


Adam made that change for all trip reports to give them more views. Ain't it cool?
 
mpeebles
08/25/2019 07:36AM
  
New Trip Report posted by mpeebles

Trip Name: WCPP Bigshell to Young.

Entry Point: Woodland Caribou

Click Here to View Trip Report
 
mpeebles
08/28/2019 04:44AM
  
Hey MM....Thanks. Yeah, that is a good idea posting in General Discussion. Thanks Adam.
I've done some fishing on lakes outside the parks as well. One of my favorites was a small lake that we'd have to pull the boats (14 ft./w motor) through a rapids to get to. To JW's point, maybe there's something in our DNA about finding out of the way places .....exploring.


JW.....Thanks. I sure agree with you on the no name lakes. Two years ago on a solo in WCPP I bit off a little more than I could chew on a portage day. I entered a no name lake and found the first campsite for the evening. I ended up spending three days on the newly named "Patrick Lake"! It would have been a shame to have just paddled through this gem as I had originally planned.


Although I can't remember the exact quote from "Sand County Almanac", Aldo Leupold
said something to the effect that "while in the wilderness the best plans for the day are made over breakfast"........"we were free to wander". I believe this to be true.


Safe travels.......Mike



 
missmolly
08/25/2019 11:37AM
  
Heckuva trip report about a heckuva trip. I like how you organized the info, instead of going day by day.
 
mpeebles
08/26/2019 04:15AM
  
boonie: "I enjoyed hearing about your trip. I hope to make it to WCPP sometime."


Thanks. I made my first Quetico trip this year! Seems I skipped over Q for WCPP and Wabakimi. It's interesting to see the differences in the parks. All are beautiful and each unique in it's own way.


Safe travels.......Mike



 
Jaywalker
08/26/2019 03:51PM
  
I keep thinking about your Banana Lake. As I've looked through my WCPP map for routes I'm hoping to do (hopefully next year), my eyes keep wandering off to lakes with no names, and I can't help but wonder if I'll get sidetracked on my way to some more famous lake on one of these no-names that grabs me and hold me for more days than I'd expect. I hope next year I can find my Banana Lake.


Loved reading your report, twice. Congrats on discovering lakers, and I've put a big hole in a tarp doing something stupid once too. Thanks for writing up your trip.
 
missmolly
08/26/2019 07:20AM
  
mpeebles: "boonie: "I enjoyed hearing about your trip. I hope to make it to WCPP sometime."



Thanks. I made my first Quetico trip this year! Seems I skipped over Q for WCPP and Wabakimi. It's interesting to see the differences in the parks. All are beautiful and each unique in it's own way.



Safe travels.......Mike



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And I paddle in-between the parks, Mike. We all have our preferences and thank goodness paddlers prefer different things or we'd all be on the same lake, gunwale to gunwale and bow to stern.
 
mpeebles
08/25/2019 03:18PM
  
Thanks. I copied the idea from someone on QJ, thinking Pineknot.


I probably should have included campsite info as well. We visited almost every campsite on most lakes just to check them out. I'll need to start taking notes however as my memory isn't quite what it used to be!


Safe travels......Mike

 
boonie
08/25/2019 03:59PM
  
I enjoyed hearing about your trip. I hope to make it to WCPP sometime.
 
mpeebles
08/25/2019 09:50AM
  
sns: "Good read, thank you for sharing! Hope to get to that part of the park in the coming years..."


Thanks. It's a very pleasant part of the park. Enjoyed all aspects of it. Not quite as isolated as the central part (Irvine area) but vey remote nonetheless and not too many visitors. The ONLY issue I see is that there are not too many options to veer off of the routes because they follow the river systems and are not lake to lake per se. At least the larger lakes such as Bigshell to Olive, etc.


Safe travels.......
 
mpeebles
08/25/2019 08:32AM
  
Dan Cooke at CCS is going to take a look at it and see if he can bring it back to life. I was able to use it the rest of the trip by folding it in half and tying the loops together on one end. Worked great but half sized! I caused the tear by doing something stupid and it was no reflection on the quality of the tarp. It has served me well over the years and sure the heck doesn't owe me anything.


Safe travels......Mike
 
sns
08/25/2019 08:52AM
  
Good read, thank you for sharing! Hope to get to that part of the park in the coming years...