What is the route you are taking?

Trips with Wanapitei Outfitters.

Start at Moraine Lake, Bailey River's headwaters. Sounds like a smaller technical river, some nice C-II wavey/wet stuff.

When we get on the Back we'll go to below Hawk Rapids for our pickup. I'm thinking we might go along the north border of the Thelon Game Preserve.

Here's a link to Che-mun's write up of a trip in 1962.

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Solus, Lots of history to catch up on. Wish I knew this was coming up this summer, but the discounted seat kind of landed in my lap. One of the benefits of a tough economy I guess.

Ice reported still on Moraine Lake where the Bailey River starts. 5 days till we're scheduled to land and start paddling.

Last minute packing dry suit and extra woolies.

BWJ has a nice trip report on the Thelon, just south of the Back. Alex Hall has a good reputation from everyone I've heard from.

I'll post pics and report here when I return.

Just got back. Great trip. Arctic Wolves, Caribou, Arctic Fox, Musk Ox.
It's a stark beautiful land. Still had lakes frozen up as we flew out.

1 or 2 bugs 

My camera batt quit halfway, cold/old batt. I need to get pics from trip partners.

This trip has me seriously rethinking how much vacation time I'll use for Quetico in the future.

ST, If your looking for work, go to Yellowknife. It's a frontier town still. Everybodies left town to work in the diamond mines. 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. Plenty of time to explore. But summer's short. The rivers were dropping 2-4-6 inches a day. It was pretty tough weather in late June, highs 10 c. Barely had open water to land and start our trip. Starts getting tough again by mid-August. Funny to see it get dark at night back home. We were taking landscape pictures at 1:30 AM.

Oh, we had a bug tent. Kind of a teepee design. Solid fabric on top and bug screen on the bottom half with roll-up solid panels if it's cold/hot. One pole and lots of lines staked out. I'll post a pic later.

I'll post some more stuff, but it'll be a while.

when i was in yellowknife last season, i asked a local about the job situation. he said "if you can get out of bed in the morning, take your pick."

with the long mild summer daylight, people don't seem to pay much attention to the time-you see whole families out walking around at 12AM.