Day Trippin’ – Little Doe Loop
It was an absolutely gorgeous morning to be out on the water. I started with a short warm up paddle to the Joe Lake portage takeout. I love this final stretch of Canoe Lake. The water narrows as you approach the portage and paddle over ancient stumps submerged just below the surface. There’s an unofficial…
Day Trippin’ – The Highway 60 Blitz
If you spend any length of time looking at the Algonquin map you’ll eventually notice that scattered along highway 60 are a small number of dead-end lakes (trust me, they’re there. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at that map). These are a handful of lakes just north and south of 60 that are…
Spring 2025: Canoe Lake to Catfish & Beyond – Part Four
The rain had given up by the time we were ready to leave the tent, but it had left behind a cold, grey morning and the promise of more rain down the road (we had cell service and weather reports on that site, and the reports weren’t great). On top of that, the wind was…
Spring 2025: Canoe Lake to Catfish & Beyond – Part Three
Big Crow connects directly to Little Crow which connects to the Crow River which connects to Proulx, all without any portaging. That’s around 12-13 kilometers of paddling without any interruption. Normally, I’d love that much time on the water. When the Weather Gods have teed up a post portage ice bath in the form of…
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Hi, I’m Drew. At the start of 2016 I set a goal to paddle 100 of Algonquin Park’s lakes before the end of the summer. 97 Days and 101 lakes later, I realized that those first 100 lakes were just the beginning. There are hundreds of lakes in Algonquin Park and I’ve got some paddling to do. On to the next 100.
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