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Reply #930 - Mar 29th, 2024 at 2:04pm
 
Jimbo wrote on Mar 29th, 2024 at 12:37pm:
Great memories for me at this spot.  The starting spot for many a great adventure!

Jimbo   Cool


Or the ending spot. It was a welcome sight a few years ago after my son broke his hand on a family trip. I paddled solo, with him in the canoe, from the east end of upper Cirrus then had to quadruple portage two canoes and nearly all of our gear. My other son was having Achilles tendon problems and couldn’t carry much. My wife did a single portage with her gear. Same routine to the BH parking lot. Then it off to the hospital in Atikokan. It was an exhausting day.
  
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Reply #931 - Mar 31st, 2024 at 1:47pm
 
Today's POD is the proverbial up the creek without a paddle  Wink Grin
  
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Reply #932 - Apr 1st, 2024 at 10:17am
 
Today's "smiling eyes are watching you"... as the song says.

Jimbo  Cool
  
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Reply #933 - Apr 4th, 2024 at 1:12pm
 
I hope that blood on his finger is from the Waldo and not him  Undecided Grin
  
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Reply #934 - Apr 7th, 2024 at 1:52pm
 
This has to be the riffle leading to the portage into Quetico Lk. The ladies are taking the smart route by staying to the right of the spill-out.

I've never had to wade, I just stayed as far right as possible and lined the canoe up past the spill-out.

I tried paddling up the riffle a few times but only got half-way up, hung for a moment then pushed right back out. That riffle doesn't look like much but more than a few paddlers have dumped there.

Once you get into the little pond and see the force of the water coming out of Quetico Lk, you understand how much force is coming out of that little riffle.  Shocked Grin
  
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Reply #935 - Apr 7th, 2024 at 3:23pm
 
i waded and lined at that exact same spot last year. There just wasn't enough water where there wasn't current and it was too bony to navigate by paddle without getting pushed back out into the current and "going for a ride" backwards.
  
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Reply #936 - Apr 7th, 2024 at 5:24pm
 
Whether you can  paddle up that spot depends on how high the water is in BH.  If the water in BH is high enough you won't even know there is a rapids there.  But if the water is low in BH, then getting up that rapids can be very difficult.
  
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Reply #937 - Apr 7th, 2024 at 7:32pm
 
HighnDry wrote on Apr 7th, 2024 at 3:23pm:
i waded and lined at that exact same spot last year. There just wasn't enough water where there wasn't current and it was too bony to navigate by paddle without getting pushed back out into the current and "going for a ride" backwards.


DentonDoc and I did the same just a day or so before you.  I have the scratches on my cedar strip canoe to prove it! We searched for the alternate bypass portage but it was apparently grown over. About 10 years ago I was pushed out and nearly flipped my kayak when I tried to paddle the edge. Water started pouring into the cockpit but I managed to recover before floating upside down out into the lake.
  
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Reply #938 - Apr 13th, 2024 at 2:07pm
 
Where are those pictos located?
  
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Reply #939 - Apr 13th, 2024 at 2:33pm
 
HighnDry wrote on Apr 13th, 2024 at 2:07pm:
Where are those pictos located?


I know those. Upper arm of Quetico lake about midway to the east end.
  
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