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This was a canoe trip my wife the dog and I took to find Fishog’s Fierce Find. It was a beautiful day for a paddle, and despite a breeze that made for some rough water on Head Lake we made good time. Things got a lot easier at the river until the portage. We were about …
Our Killarney winter hike was postponed so many times this year that I was starting to worry there wouldn’t be any snow. Fortunately, while the roads were bare in Southern Ontario, after a white knuckled drive up highway 69 through a snowstorm we found plenty of white stuff on the ground. When we arrived at …
I’ve wanted to snowshoe up Leadingmark Hill for a few years now. We even made an abortive attempt last year, heading in from the George Lake access point, but in the end we decided Leadingmark would be too far and just went to Cave Lake instead. At 438m the peak of Leadingmark Hill isn’t the …
Story Located just down the highway from the Canoe Lake access point and heading into the bush in the general direction of the Arrowhon Pines Resort, the Mizzy Lake trail isn’t in the most remote part of Algonquin Park. On the other hand, at twelve kilometres in length it’s one of the longer trails accessible …
Backcountry access for day trips in Killarney Provincial Park is somewhat limited, particularly in winter. The park is best suited for overnight trips that allow you to travel further from the access points. The Bell and Johnnie Lake roads are closed seasonally, which require that the hike be extended considerably just to get to the …
The Blue Ridge section of the LaCloche hills isn’t home to the tallest peak in Killarney. That honour is reserved for Silver Peak where the north and south ranges intersect. But the peak of Blue Ridge that looms on the north shore of OSA Lake is only fifty meters below Silver Peak, and a strong …
Planning Planning a trip into any of Ontario’s National or Provincial Parks can be challenging. The good sites book up very quickly, and information about the reservation service and park rules is difficult to come by. To further complicate things Ontario Parks was changing reservation services this winter, so the reservation phone numbers were down …
Since Sunday was our last day and we wouldn’t have to make camp that night I had hoped that we’d be able to do some more hiking before leaving Grace Lake, but the rain continued to threaten all morning. We cooked up the last of our food for breakfast. We were at the bottom of …
The storm intensified through the night and I had my first opportunity to enjoy a thunderstorm while sleeping in a hammock. The lightning was about ten seconds away, but that’s enough to make quite a bit of noise and light up the sky dramatically. I had set my hammock up with the fly a bit …
I awoke to another spectacular sunrise, but unlike the morning before I had to share it with a family doing some early morning fishing in a large motorboat. Such is life out on the bay. We had our last big day ahead of us so we packed up and got moving pretty early. On the …