TATACHIKAPIKA RIVER CANOE TRIP

This past May, we had the pleasure of paddling this hidden gem of a river. Not too well known and remote, the Tat numerous runnable rapids.

The Tatachikapika River starts north of Gogama and eventually flows into the Mattagami River closer to Timmins. It is a spring river and must be run early before it gets too dry.

It was quite obvious from the overgrowth on the portages and campsites that this is a very seldom used river. I don't really understand why, since the days are easy and the whitewater wonderful.

I would like to say a special thank you to Jen and Carol at Timmins Adventure Tour. They were great at arranging our shuttle and finding us an excellent take out for our trip.

This river I will certainly be doing again.

Check out my Pages section for the entire trip report.

Camping in burnt out forest.

An overcast spring day.

One of many exciting rapids.

Typical rapid.

Yours truly.

4 M CIRCLE / DIVIDING LAKE CANOE TRIP

This past July, we did another lost canoe route in the Gogama area, the 4 M / Diving Lake trip. This was a very scenic trip, with some excellent runnable rapids.

Like all these routes, however, no maintenance work has been done in a long time. Because of this, you will find overgrown or lost campsites and portages that are a shambles of down trees.

On the other hand, this ensures the remoteness of the trip, the lack of people, and adds to the spectacular beauty.

I would like to give a special thanks to Dan and Don, the owners of Dividing Lake Lodge. They were more than accommodating for us to leave our vehicle with them instead of the MNR launch on Dividing Lake. You can even make arrangements to camp there your first night or arrange a shuttle if you are not doing this trip as a loop. Contact them at DividingLakeLodge@hotmail.com.

Put-in at Dividing Lake Lodge.

Leaving Dividing Lake at P1.

Boyz Canoe Trip 2016 - Sunday Creek, Algonquin Park

The Boyz get together once or twice a year. The four of us, John, Peter, Steve, and me have been paddling together for over 3 decades! Lately, however, many of these get-togethers have been based at the cottage with daytrips of paddling or hiking.

This year we decided to do a canoe trip, for old time’s sake. The trip would be short and easy and involve a little fishing. So in early July, we headed up Sunday Creek in Algonquin Park. It’s not a long paddle to the last lake, Farm Lake and involves no portages, only a couple of beaver dam lift-overs.

We set up camp on a nice island. Most of the three days was spend eating and reminiscing about other trips. We did spend a chunk of time paddling and floating around in the canoes. Steve pretended to fish. I say pretended since he didn’t even get a bite.

Time passed and it was a fun, relaxing trip with old friends.

We ended the trip back at the cottage where Steve preceded to catch fish from right off our dock. I wonder where he may want Boyz Weekend next year?

Here is the link to the photos: Boyz Canoe Trip - 2016

John with his spiffy orange shirt.

Paddling up Sunday Creek.

Time To Get Caught Up

Well, it has been a long time since I wrote in this blog. It has been a very busy season filled with paddling, canoe trip, and even trips farther abroad.

The cottage is closed for the season so now there will be more free time for blog writing. Hopefully over the next few weeks I will get caught up and the trips of 2106.

I’m not sure yet as to which order they will appear, but they may just be random.

Looking forward to reminiscing.