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Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Days 6 & 7 – To Pickerel Bay and Down Fox Creek to Georgian Bay
Last revised: February 27, 2024. Table of Contents: Day 6 – The Lower French From CS 601 To Pickerel Bay (CS 634) The Long-Gone Lichenographs Little Flat Rapids (aka Second or Derraud Rapids) A Favourite FRPP Campsite – CS634 Day … Continue reading
Posted in Anishinaabek World, Georgian Bay, Pictographs of the Canadian Shield, wilderness canoe tripping
Tagged best french river campsite, Fox Creek French River Delta, Fox Creek portages, French River pictographs, Little Flat Rapids French River, Pickerel Bay campsite French River, Second Rapids French River
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Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Day 3 – From Canoe Pass To Below The Portage Channel Dam
Day 3 – From Canoe Pass to Below Portage Channel Dam Last revised: October 12, 2022. Table of Contents The Day’s Basic Data and maps Looking For Gibraltar Point’s Pictographs The Kennedy Island Pictograph Site The Nick Adams Analysis of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anishinaabek World, Georgian Bay, Pictographs of the Canadian Shield, wilderness canoe tripping
Tagged Big Chaudiere Dam, Cradle Rapids French River, Gibraltar Point French River, Gibraltar Point rock painting pictograph, Kennedy Island Pictographs, Keso Point pictographs, Lake Nipissing Outlet dams, Little Chaudiere Dam, Okikendawt CaHa-06, Portage Channel Dam, Portage Channel Hydro Dam
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Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Day 2 – From Lafleche Point to Canoe Pass
Day 2 – From Lafleche Point to Canoe Pass distance: 25 km time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. portages/rapids: 0/0: another nice, easy paddling day! weather: sunny most of the day, light wind from NW campsite: CS105 with room for multiple tents, nice … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Bay, Pictographs of the Canadian Shield, wilderness canoe tripping
Tagged camping lafleche point, Canoe pass Upper French River, Frank's Bay seasonal Nipissing settlement, French River Park Campsites Upper French River, FRPP CS104, FRPP CS105, Iroquois massacre Lake Nipissing, Lafleche Point Lake Nipissing, Sandy Island Lake Nipissing
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From Lake Nipigon’s Echo Rock To Waweig Lake
Last revised on September 5, 2022. Table of Contents: Day 10 Map and Essential Details Looking For the Echo Rock Pictographs The Vertical Majesty of Undercliff Mountain The Graffiti on Echo Rock Heading For Wabinosh Bay Paddling Past The HBC … Continue reading
Down The Pikitigushi River From Cliff Lake To Lake Nipigon – Days 2 & 3
Table of Contents: Day 2 – From Cliff Lake to Ratte Lake Walking The Trail Above Dewdney’s Site #264 Dewdney’s Site #221 Dewdney’s Site #220 Dewdney’s Site #219 Campsites on Cliff Lake Dewdney’s Site # 262 The Portages Into Bad … Continue reading
Down The Pikitigushi From Cliff Lake To Lake Nipigon: Logistics. Maps and Day 1 – Cliff Lake
Last revised on February 26, 2024. Table of Contents: Introduction, Logistics, and Maps Why A Return Visit To Cliff Lake? What We Did For Maps A Toast To (Uncle) Phil Cotton (1940-2018) Getting To The Put-In Day 1 – From … Continue reading
Canoeing From The Pikitigushi’s Cliff Lake to Echo Rock on Lake Nipigon
The northwest corner of Lake Nipigon is a canoe tripper’s dreamscape, offering countless trip possibilities. Since our first visit in 2010, we have returned a half-dozen times. A Paddler’s List Of Wabakimi’s Top Six This post features images from the … Continue reading
The Little Missinaibi River From Top To Bottom – Intro, Maps, and Logistics
Last update: March 25, 2023. Table Of Contents: Introduction and overview map Missinaibi as An Anishinaabe Territory Missinaibi – “The Place of Pictures” Wildfires Along The Missinaibi River Hap Wilson’s Missinaibi Guidebook Four Approaches To Little Missinaibi Lake & Fairy Point on … Continue reading
Canoeing The Little Missinaibi River: Day 7 – From Whitefish Falls on Missinaibi Lake To Red Granite Point
Table of Contents: The Day’s Basic Data and Map Robert Bell and Whitefish Falls Framing Some Pix of Whitefish Falls The Missinaibi As A Premier River Run The Pictograph Focus of Our Day Ontario Parks Maps & the Picto Locations … Continue reading
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Tagged Fairy Point Missinaibi, Little Missinaibi River, Missinaibi moose and crosses painting, Ontario Parks Missinaibi Lake rock painting sites, Red Granite Point camping, Reva Point, Whitefish Falls Missinaibi Lake
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Canoeing The Little Missinaibi River: Day 5 – From Little Missinaibi Lake To Admiral Falls
Previous Post – Day 4: From Mukwa Falls (Woods Lake Road Crossing) To Little Missinaibi Lake Island distance: 9.6 km time: start – 10:15 a.m.; finish – 2:00 p.m. (1 hr stop at outpost) portages/rapids: 1 PR8 RR – 170m – … Continue reading
