Well, after a long 22 year hiatus I'm finally going to return to Quetico next year with my 11 year old son in tow. Back in the day (which was a Thursday btw  :) ) I spent a lot of time tripping through the park mostly solo and have been longing for a return.

This past year I took my son to Algonquin for 12 nights in May. It was the first canoe trip of substance for me in years and the first ever for my boy. He loved it, even with all the hardships involved and wants to do more. He's been listening to my Quetico stories his whole life and has been pushing me to bring him, and this is the year.

I've managed to block off a large chunk of time in late July and August and the kid and I will be doing an extended 33 night trip.

We are anglers first and that will be the focus of this trip, with a number of extended layovers included. After poring over my maps over the Christmas holiday the kid and I have decided on our tentative route. As always this is just a rough plan, and we'll change on the fly as we fit, but I think it's a good one.

If you're curious here's the tentative itinerary. Bolded lakes are the ones we'll be camping on along with the number of nights on each lake included.

French Lake
Pickerel Lake
Bisk Lake
Beg Lake
Bud Lake
Fern Lake (1)
Olifaunt Lake
Sturgeon Lake
Antoine Lake (2)
Sturgeon Lake (2)
Maligne River
Wink Lake (3)
Poohbah Lake (4)
Conmee Lake (2)
Suzanette Lake
Burt Lake (2)
Marj Lake
Joyce Lake (3)
Kahshapiwi Lake
Keefer Lake
Sark Lake (2)
Cutty Lake (2)
Metacryst Lake
Heronshaw Lake
Kahshapiwi Creek
Kawnipi Lake north end (1)
Kawnipi Lake, Mckenzie Bay (2)
Mckenzie Lake (4)
Cache Lake (2)
Trousers Lake
Baptism Lake
French Lake

What do you think about the plan? Any thoughts or ideas are most welcome.  :)