yarnellboat wrote:
Sounds like your muscles will feel that! Lots of bushwacking and pulling/dragging.
When you get the chance, I'd love more detail on your route from Haggart back to Manitoba.
Not sure this is very good form, but... before you started the Obukowin portages, you should've visited the east end of the lake and built yourself a dam for the return trip on the upper Wanipigow!
I've heard that little lake east of Siderock is quite nice. Hope to get there someday.
P.
Well it took just over a week for the swelling in my legs to go down! No kidding on the dam, would have been nice!
I just started going through my videos, coordinates, etc.. and filling in the gaps. let me know if there is anything specific on the Haggart portion that you like to know. All in all a very beautiful paddle, from my camp near the mouth of the Haggart on Donald Lake (according to my GPS, thought it was part of carroll) there were 23 or so portages back to siderock. Everything was fairly smooth on the Ontario side except for the one portage I couldn't find (and blazed a new trail) and one where I had to bushwack the last 100m or so. There was a beaver dam around the border which kept the water high on the ontario side. It wasn't until after the small lake east of siderock where the last 2-3 portages plus river dragging along on the wanipigow wasn't fun due to low water.
I planned for a 5-day trip, which ended up being 6. If I did this loop again it would be 8-10 day to allow for some down time, fishing, trail maintenance etc.... When I get around to making a video it should give you a good idea of the route.
Mike