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Message started by SunCatcher on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:31pm

Title: Re: Garner Lake Entry Help (Manitoba Side)
Post by DentonDoc on Nov 14th, 2011 at 2:16am
The Garner Lake campsite is just south of the center of a beach that might be 100 yards long ... you can't miss it.  If its a warm day, the sandy bottom extends at least 20 yards off shore.  What a treat on a warm day!  Unfortunately, this spot is reachable by motor boat and is known as the "party" site.  So it might be a little trashy.  You'll need to keep an ear peeled for motor traffic if you enter/exit on a weekend.  We encountered maybe a half-dozen boats getting from Beresford to Garner.  I was amazed to have even a pontoon boat catch up to us just after we finished the river section.  But then we went in on Sunday.  On our late week exit, we passed no boats.  Maybe they were just smart enough not to be out on such a windy day!!

There is a very nice (for WCPP) campsite just as you come off the portage into Haggart.  The short channel after the portage heads NNW.  The campsite is on the point/peninsula just as you turn east into the main body of Haggard.  The take out is poor and you'll have to climb up to the top of a hogback ridge over mostly bare rock, but the side is large.  Toward the end of the point (on the west side) is the kitchen area (parked my canoe on the opposite slope toward the east-side take-out.  The tent pads are located further south, down the back of the ridge ... separated by maybe 30 yards.  There are two (maybe 3) FLAT tent pads in that vicinity.

I think Martin stayed at both of these sites, based on his Garner Entry trip report on Canoestories.com

dd

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