Where did you put in and where did you go?

I am starting to plan a summer 2007 trip up there either in early July or late August -- if the latter, low water will probably be a factor for me too.

Thanks for any advice.

Do you have photos of the trip up online some place we can see? I am real interested to see how the park is as far as topography and rocky and cliff lined shores etc. Thanks for the report.

in posting, my intent was not to dissuade anyone from planning a trip to this area, but to give a heads-up to the conditions you would find in low water conditions in the park like occurred towards the end of the 2006 season. if you are used to well used interlake portages like the bw/q, then you may have found these low water conditions undesirable, or even unmanageable. one solution is to go earlier in the season. the park has a just a fraction of the paddlers that use the bw/q, but does have outpost camps scattered around the lakes. i've said previously that the w reminds me of the q when i was first there in the early '60s, but the comparison is based more on the fact that during that time we rarely saw other paddlers. the portages in the q where in better shape then than in the w in current times. i was frankly surprised at the lack of campsites, or in some cases, a location to gypsy camp. i was using a map that had campsites marked, but i don't think 1 in 10 even existed anymore-completely overgrown. the more traveled areas of the park have more sites. various river systems connect the lakes in the park, so you will have river travel. there are rapids and swifts on these rivers, so it would be up to you. break or lose your gear and there's not likely to be anyone around to help. the topography is similar, but the forest is black spruce with scattered jack pines. some burn over. forget hanging a food pack. i used my souris and was glad i had a rugged and light boat. if you are a whitewater person, consider something else. saw no wolves or woodland caribou, but plenty of the other usual suspects. it's hard to say what is really happening in the park-some say paddling is slowly increasing, while others say decreasing. scheduled back in for 14 day trip-starting gear check. go light.

From what Jd is saying and from my experience traveling in the Q almost exclusively in August I am wondering if you will have any water to get from lake to lake in  Wabakimi that time of year?

Well...nothing I can do except wait til we are maybe a week from going to check out the water levels in Wabikimi.  So its flat up there...oh well..fun to see another area of nw ontario besides Quetico and Turtle River area.Have to figure out how to view the photos here so I can see ur Wabikimi photos.  I talked to someone today who was mentioning Mr. Cotton (can't remember his first name ) who is doing his maping etc for Wabikimi. I wonder what route he is taking..might be a good one to take..  If the water level will make the Wabikimi  to hard to ejnoy   (  hard to us .....just don't want to be knee high in mud for very long ) we will do a Quetico trip.  I think we really want to get as remote as possible !!!  and Wabikmi sounds like a place to me.

Debbie