Thanks for the info, Wally!  I kind of thought that would be the case as I spent a good bit of this past weekend eyeballing every photograph I could find of the area.  I saw plenty of trees.  My two trips into Woodland Caribou Park mostly gave me confidence that tree cover in Opasquia would be adequate.  There WERE a few areas in WCPP, however, where trees were pretty thinned-out & scraggly looking and one might have been hard-pressed to find a solution that didn't involve large rocks (a hanging arrangement I haven't tried, as yet).

If I go up to Opasquia it will most likely be as part of this 2014 initiative that Marten is rolling out.  2013 would actually work out better for me in some ways but logistics & costs dictate that I coordinate my plans with others headed in that direction.

I look forward to discussing Opasquia & other canoeing adventures at Copia in one month!

Jimbo   8-)