Algonquin Park Camping with my Beckers

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Went back country canoe - camping with my friend in Algonquin park (Ontario Canada) for a week. Here's a few pictures from the trip, we had beautiful weather all week. My BK7 got a work out chopping off branches on the downed trees we used for firewood, then I used my takedown bucksaw to do the heavy cutting. BK14 was on food prep duty all week. Already wish I was back up there.
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Here's a few shots to show just how beautiful this place can be. I'm so glad I live in Canada with tons of beautiful country like this.

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By God that's some gorgeous country! I have always loved pics from Canada...looks like some true wilderness. I love it, thanks much for the pics!

Nice looking blades too, I should try micarta on my 7.
 
Thanks thrill, it never gets old to me, I love camping out there, morning and evening views like that are worth all the paddling and portaging. Micarta on the 7 is awesome, I prefer it over the grivory.

hmm uploads stopped working on my photobucket...not sure whats going on
 
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That's one of my many dream trips. Thanks for posting that. Simply Beautiful.
 
Great pics man!
I can see why you want to go back.
I've got some vacation coming up next month.
Taking the wife and little princess camping around the state.
I'd like to hit the olympic peninsula and Mnt. Rainier.
I love the Pacific North West this time of year!
 
B-e-a......utiful ! The Rockies and Canada is where it's at !!! Thanks for the pics
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Oh hells yeah, I love me some Canuckistan.
Thought I was Canadian until I was 6, no joke.
Spent a lot of time on Manitoulin - one of my favorite places on earth so far.

-Daizee
 
I'm from Minnesota, so that makes me almost canadian. Those pics look just like northern MN. Looks like a great time :D
 
Glad you guys like the pics, it was a beautiful week. @gmoneyluv, there was one small group of people across the lake on the first night, but they were on their way out of the park and left the next morning, after that we were alone, perfectly quiet :) Just us and the loons.

@daizee maybe you were adopted? lol

I'm just so glad I live here, you spend a week in the back country up there and you really appreciate just how beautiful this country is, and how lucky I am to live here.
 
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i'm planning a trip there at the end of August. We (brothers and I) usually do a canoe and portage trip every year....do you remember the name of the lake you stayed on?
 
These pictures were from Joe lake, it was surprisingly quiet as this is one of the busier areas of the park as it's not too far inside, to get there you launch from Canoe Lake, paddle to the north end and portage to Joe Lake. Usually I continue on through little joe lake, to burnt island lake and further, if I launch from Canoe lake. I don't usually stay on Joe lake unless I'm taking someone who's never been camping before. My friend I took had never been camping, never been in a canoe or paddled anything, very city. So we stayed on Joe lake and did day trips to surrounding lakes for fishing and whatnot. Seeing as you guys go every year I would recommend going somewhere further in, more wildlife and better fishing. If you guys are into fishing you can check out Lake Lavaille or Lake Dickson which are east of Opeongo, they usually have the highest numbers on the annual fishing surveys. Are you coming up hwy 11 through Huntsville? or from the east side? I haven't been there as it's another 2-3 hours of driving for me to get there but I've had a couple people tell me Lake Shirley (shall lake access point) is supposed to be really quiet and decent fishing as well. check out www.algonquinmap.com it's an extremely detailed map of the park that is a lot more accurate than the ones sold by the park. Portages and everything clearly marked with distances, and even has species of fish for each lake. How many hours of paddling do you guys want to do? do you plan on going to one lake and stay there? or do a circuit where you're moving every day?
 
well we've been going the last 5 yrs and we always do a canoe/portage circuit. But I think this year I wanna do something less "extreme"...meaning instead of breaking camp early in the morning and then canoe/portage all day, then set up camp at 600pm, sleep then do it all aver again; i'd rather go to a nice lake and make camp at a nice spot then just do little day trips. Also we've always gone to the north side of the park but i think this time we'll check out the west/south part. Anyways thanks for the pics and info and the link for the map, its very detailed!!
 
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well we've been going the last 5 yrs and we always do a canoe/portage circuit. But I think this year I wanna do something less "extreme"...meaning instead of breaking camp early in the morning and then canoe/portage all day, then set up camp at 600pm, sleep then do it all aver again; i'd rather go to a nice lake and make camp at a nice spot then just do little day trips. Also we've always gone to the north side of the park but i think this time we'll check out the west/south part. Anyways thanks for the pics and info and the link for the map, its very detailed!!
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No problem. I know what you mean about having a relaxing camping trip vs canoeing a circuit where you're packing up camp every morning and paddling all day, both are fun, but for different reasons. The Southwest part has some nice lakes, Burnt Island lake is nice but it's a bigger lake and can get a bit choppy on windy days. I think it takes around 5 hours of paddling from Canoe lake (canoe->joe->little joe->baby joe- > burnt island) but that area of the park is known as the '401 of algonquin' as it's probably the most visited areas. or you could go through joe into teepee lake up the little oxtongue river and into Little Doe or Tom Thompson lake. Another option is you could launch from Opeongo and if you want to save some time you can even get a shuttle service to the north end of the lake (it's a massive lake and gets choppy, hard paddling) but you can get dropped off at a portage up toward happy isle or merchant lakes. From there you can do some cool day trips through the otter slides into the eastern part of Burnt Island lake. There is a ton of lakes to visit so it's hard to suggest, I would recommend using that map and google for trip reports. You can check out this guys channel on youtube, he does solo trips through algonquin with his dog, entertaining watch and you can see some of the different lakes he goes on.
[video=youtube;NIwKBfV0-F8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwKBfV0-F8[/video]
 
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