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Lake Athabasca
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lambertiana
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Why am I suddenly hungry?
Show more pics of the Canadian Shield wilderness, I like the looks of that area.
Show more pics of the Canadian Shield wilderness, I like the looks of that area.
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Not around the shoreline. The ice rises, expands and shear everything away. Everywhere is fairly dense with many bog pockets. Insane with Chanterelle and Bolete mushrooms !
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Yup grouse in the fall, Ptarmigans in winter. LOTS of them. They are a close but slight shade off the snow. Find one, then stop and scan, then you see the flock. They were generaly in largish groups 10-30 ish. They have large, wide well feather feet with serious claw toenails. When it's insanely cold they will burrow into the snow, I have seen their holes. Most of the time they were on land but they would also tree roost, not much though.
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I'll scratch up a few more pics if I can find them. Being out there alone sometimes gave me different feelings of gratitude to be alive, awe, a slight desolate loneliness at times, and a constant keen interest on what was around the next bend. The water was crystal clear, pure, and I guzzled it by scooping up double hand fulls. The air was pristine and I slept like a stone at the end of each long hike. My ankles ached for weeks until I got used to the lack of support with rubber boots. Much of the shoreline was super rough to walk. Not always the big smooth rock in the pic.
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Nice trout, great eating/smoking size. Cranberries, blueberries, ptarmigan & five of diamonds- definitely Northern Saskatchewan's mainstays
You bet buddy. But I guess that the real deal doesn't compare to running around lighting fires with firesteel, then driving back into town and posting up about it.
Years ago I got an Alberta tourist map, made for boaters (or maybe canoeists).
It showed Lake Athabaska with the color red, meaning dangerous.
The Athabasca River was coded as a 2, meaning "easy", which it was.
Did Rutstrum describe shoals or is my 30 years old memory mixed up with
another lake?
So anyway, how dangerous is the lake and do you keep to certain bays, for protection?
It showed Lake Athabaska with the color red, meaning dangerous.
The Athabasca River was coded as a 2, meaning "easy", which it was.
Did Rutstrum describe shoals or is my 30 years old memory mixed up with
another lake?
So anyway, how dangerous is the lake and do you keep to certain bays, for protection?