Algonquin Park August 2017

Proposed Route (click on pic for larger picture)

I plan on canoeing through Algonquin Park in August this year.  The first day of the route is similar to the one I took several years ago with Tracey O., Seth and Mickey John.

Initially, I was going to go solo but it looks like I may have a paddling partner after all.

The route shown has a 1.6 km portage and this would only be possible if I was travelling with another person.  I can haul a canoe a few hundred metres but 1.6 km is just asking for trouble.

I would rent our canoe from the same place I used last time, Opeongo Outfitters.  We would begin on the east end of Galeairy Lake and travel west towards Aubrey Lake and setup camp there for the first night.

The second day we would head in a north-westerly direction to Rocky Lake, turn south at Jean Island and head south towards Pen Lake.  There are two small portages on this day: The first is between Galeairy and Rocky Lake (100 m) and the second is at Pen Falls, between Rocky Lake and Pen Lake.

I'm thinking of staying put on Pen Lake for two nights before pushing east towards Night Lake.  There is a 1.6 km portage between Pen Lake and Night Lake and once we get through this we will paddle back into the northern part of Galeairy Lake.

The last day, hopefully, we will have any easy paddle back to our starting point in Whitney.