White River Canoe Trip, Ontario, July 17-23, 2009
Trip Schedule break down
| Drive | 17th July | -Drive to Huntsville to complete final packing and spend the night. |
| 18th | -Drive to White River Provincial Park, via Naturally Superior Adventures for our canoe rental. | |
| Sunday | 19th | -Breakfast, then on the water at White Lake. Paddle down river to the dam and short portage. |
| mid-day | -Lunch, carry Kapok Rapids, and camp at Abitibi Rapids. | |
| Monday | 20th | -Breakfast, then carry Abitibi Rapids, Fearless Rapids, and then run Shotgun Rapids |
| mid-day | -Paddle to Jumbo Rapid and perform a half unpack and half lift over. Lunch on an Island. Next a Paddle to Chicagonce Falls and a portage around it with a short paddle to Angle Falls and another portage. No campsite below Angle Falls so a paddle to Domtar Rapid and camp for the night. | |
| Tuesday | 21th | -Breakfast, then run Domtar Rapid, evaluate Baptisimon Chute, one canoe to try and one canoe to portage (the portaging party stayed dry, the paddling canoe not so much). A long paddle to dry out. |
| mid-day | -Ess Rapids for a portage, then a long slow water paddle to Hayward Rapid which I believe we ran, then on to an island campsite just above Stash Rapids. | |
| Wednesday | 22th | -Breakfast, then a run of Stash Rapids and a portage at OilSlick Rapids. Next stop 2+km portage at Umbata Falls takeout. |
| mid-day | -Lunch while on portage route to Hydro Rapids, then camp and a swin in the Hydro Rapids. | |
| Thursday | 23rd | -Breakfast, then off to Twin Rapids a pair of puring spouts one pouring into a bowl of a lake and one pour out of it (a couple difficult portages). |
| mid-day | -Lunch after the last Twin Rapid portage, then another slow water paddle to Hook Falls and a quick up and down hill portage, then past the non-existent Rapids R and then portage at the serious Falls F. Next, out at the Chigamiwinigum Falls for a well maintained Portage route. Camp was made this even just at the opening to the Lake Superior on the mainland side of the river mouth. | |
| Friday | 24th | -Paddle Lake Superior to Hattie Cove, with a short stop at Picture Rock Harbour. Off the water and car shuttle at the Pukaskwa Visitors Center. |
| mid-day | Say goodbye to Pukaskwa National Park, quick lunch at a burger stop, then on to Toronto. | |
| Home | 25th | Back into Toronto at 5:00AM. |