Hello,

I thought everyone would like to know that my nedw guide book A Paddlers Guide to Queitco and Beyond will be out in a few weeks. Let me know what you think. I mentioned the forum a few times in the book.

Kevin

Here's the list fo routes for the book. It's organized in days, not distance - sorry. But I count an average day to be 12-20 kilomters, depending in the portages, size of lakes and meander of the river. Each route has a detailed map (made by a professional cartographger)and info. though.

Quetico
1.      Baptism Creek – Trousers Lake Route
2.      Pickerel Lake – Rawn Lake Route
3.      Sturgeon Lake – Jean Lake Loop
4.      Sturgeon Lake – Olifaunt Lake Loop
5.      International Canoe Derby Route
6.      Poohbah Lake Route
7.      Bentpine Creek Loop
8.      Wawiag River Loop
9.      The Pines Loop
10.      Leopold’s North Country Loop
11.      Hunter’s Island Loop

Beyond Quetico

1.      White Otter Lake – Turtle River Route
2.      Wabakimi’s Center of the Universe Route
3.      Upper Albany River Route
4.      Wabakimi’s Palisade River Route
5.      Woodland Caribou Sampler Route

Kevin,

I recently purchased your book and read a significant portion of it immediately upon recept.   Primarily, I was scanning to read your write up on lakes I've been through.  Good job!  I am very glad your first experience of the Quetico was not your only one.

I imagine writing a book about canoe routes is fairly difficult.  How much detail you should add must be a balance point between general description and all-encompassing tome.  You did a great job on the areas I know and love, primarily the southern Quet.

My regular crew and I look forward to trying some of the routes and alternate wilderness areas you described.

Thanks!

Kevin -

I was reading thru one of your reports in the book (Hunter's Island, maybe) and you described an embedded tick or 2, and you got a little freaky...

What kind of tick was it?

I've had plenty of ticks, but I never did see the one that gave me lymes disease a few years ago (not in the canoe country - NW Wisconsin).   I haven't heard anything definitive about wood ticks carrying lymes - so I've no reason to believe it wasn't a deer tick. Supposedly they need to be embedded for a couple days before the lymes passes into you.

There's a general risk of infection from any embedded tick byte, but if its a wood tick and it hasn't been there too long, shouldn't be that big of a deal.

sorry, I did not purchace the book, I read most of it for free at Borders  , an excellent book to give people an idea of trips to make,  the trips are ones Joe Average can make rather than something only somebody writing for a magazine would do. Good job.