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Pastimes : Canoes, Hiking, the Great Outdoors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AugustWest who wrote (216)	3/13/2002 8:04:55 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 325

Good Morning! Good to find this thread waking up this morning! I was just thinking of it yesterday and was going to take a look to see if it still existed. Wanted to post something about paddling trips and stuff for the coming season. Last summer I finally got up to the Barron Canyon to paddle upstream from Squirrel Rapids to the falls and back. That's a "wow" kind of trip for anyone who hasn't been there before. Unusual place where you're paddling between towering cliffs which are covered with bright orange lichen. The whole trip can be done in about...uhm...maybe 6-7 hours by relatively strong paddlers. Only one portage that is perhaps 1000 feet long over fairly but not too rugged terrain. Just a fantastic daytrip. Got quite a few new ones lined up for this spring and I just about can't wait. Going to get the canoe out this week...maybe even later today, and scrub and oil all of the cherrywood trim. Ottawa Paddlesport Show on this weekend, and I thought I'd go down and treat myself to a new cherrywood paddle to be put to excellent use in the coming season... (o: Weather has been freaky here...but in a good way. Yesterday, it was up around 50 F...positively balmy outdoors. I was out poking around in my garden and thinking that the plants are still green and look like they've only been sleeping over winter and not the usually dead and brown from months of freezing. Ground is not frozen at all under the snow, instead of usual frost going down 4 feet and not entirely thawed until May. I'm even wondering if some things that are usually just annuals will behave like they do in warmer climates and start to grow this spring. Looks like it to me. Lots of geese flying over. They seem to be using our area as a sort of buffer zone to crisscross back and forth over as the weather changes from warm to cold to warm to cold. There are plenty of corn fields throughout this region, and snow cover is almost non-existent now, so I think they feel like this is a safe place to hang out before they finish the last leg of the flight up into the north. Prospective paddling trips for this year? Anyone got any ideas? I'm thinking a trip up to Temagami might be fantastic. Also going to go exploring into the Bonnechere River area... upstream at the end which is just outside of the boundaries of Algonquin Park. I've heard that you can almost count on seeing moose feeding along the banks of the river there if you do that stretch of river in spring through early summer, so it seems like a good plan. Hoping to do at least part of the circuit of that chain of lakes that includes Kashwakamak and Gull, etc... Lookin' like it might be one good looooong summer... (o: