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dave
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Post Number: 99
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 12:20 pm: | 
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any predictions as to when the ice will be gone? |
rob_in_angus
Member
Post Number: 29
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 1:44 pm: |
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There is a poll started over at CCR
I figured the winter was late and short therefore the breakup would be early but the temps have remained colder for a while so now I ma not so sure.
I have a trip planned May 3rd so I sure hope it is clear by then. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 416
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 3:43 pm: |
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May 3 sounds like a good bet in view of the weather. |
rob_in_angus
Member
Post Number: 30
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 10:09 am: |
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Just checked the long range forecast and there is sun a +10C temps for the next two weeks. Looks good! |
ojig
Member
Post Number: 20
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 9:32 am: |
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The ice is starting to candle down a little futher. Slowly, spaces are being made between shore and ice edge. Rain is forecast up till Thus. Rain, helps eat it away, but days with lots of sun and good winds really knock the ice down. I am sure it will be gone by May. |
shutter_speed
Member
Post Number: 7
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 8:28 am: |
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The lakes in Muskoka are 80-90% open now, despite below average temperatures. The storm monday broke the ice up nicely. With warm, sunny weather predicted for the next two weeks I would think Temagami should be open soon. My fearless forecast is April 26th! |
curly
Member
Post Number: 51
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 10:34 am: |
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Took a long walk across three small lakes yesterday. They're still 100% solid, with no separation between lake and shore on the south sides and very little on the north sides. That said, on the walk out at noon the ice had very little water and slush on top, but on return at 3 pm there were huge pools of it. And it wasn't a very warm or sunny day. I think that will be my last such adventure before ice out.
Here's my dog on Head Lake (at the base of the Anima Nipissing Fire Tower).
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nature_freak
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Post Number: 31
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 7:20 am: |
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I took this pic from the airboat as I was leaving Bear Island On Friday afternoon. Word on the Island is that they will be boating across by next Friday.
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curly
Member
Post Number: 55
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 6:39 pm: |
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This is Nikita and I doing our part to break up the ice in town. We made it over to Forestry Island after much poling. Over the last 3 hours about 1/2 of this ice has been blown away by a strong west wind. I expect it will all be gone by nightfall. As for the main lake, that's a different story.
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skippy
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Post Number: 14
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 23, 2007 - 1:47 pm: |
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Well i heard Dean went across to the Landing in 30mins this am. I also seen Dan Gauthier coming across from east side of Cattle and make it to BI. Now anyone who has seen his boat knows this things is an ice eating machine.. and by no means represents anything that an average boat can do. A few more days I reckon. |
shutter_speed
Member
Post Number: 8
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:10 pm: |
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ICE OUT LAST NIGHT
If the ice went out before midnight, I must qualify for a valuable prize!! (My post of April 18th above). I'm on my way up tomorrow morning! |
irishfield
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Post Number: 116
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:54 pm: |
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Bob White flew over the NE arm Wednesday night and says "the NE arm is open from town to Bear Island. Everything North of Bear is clogged with ice...but should be gone by the weekend". |
shutter_speed
Member
Post Number: 9
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 9:20 pm: |
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Still some ice past Rabbit Nose, but otherwise open. |
dave
Member
Post Number: 100
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 10:40 pm: |
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i'm thinking of heading up on monday for a few days..but it's supposed to rain for tuesday and wednesday..anyone hopefully hear any different? |
shutter_speed
Member
Post Number: 10
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:21 am: |
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The weather network, which is accurate 22% of the time, has rain for tuesday, cloudy wednesday,then pretty nice 'till more rain on wednesday the 9th. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 426
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:30 am: |
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I am leaving for Temagami on Monday, April 30th for most of the month. |
irishfield
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Post Number: 117
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:46 am: |
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Have fun Ed and play safe! You know that waters COLD ! If you come out in portage bay at the town site..stop in. I'll be there from 14th to 25th of May |
kim
Member
Post Number: 198
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 12:14 pm: |
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Be careful young fella.
Is Pepper keen to go? |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 427
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 3:43 pm: |
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She noticed a lot of dog food getting packed the other day, so she knows something is up.
I notice the Sturgeon is just about peaking for this year's freshet so it should be a good quick run down the lower part from where the Obabika River connects.
Sometimes you have to paddle for 2 or 3 km on it just to go a few hundred metres downstream as you go around a meander..
Thanks for the invite Irishfield, but I am hoping to finish over on Wawiagama where I am starting from.
I am going down the Sturgeon to Kelly L and then in through Chiniguchi, up to Stouffer and back onto the Upper Sturgeon.Then down to Pilgrim Creek and into Yorston Lake.Up Yorston L and down the Yorston River to the Sturgeon again and then out via Obabika R and Wawiagama Lake.
I have been trying to go into Chiniguchi for a number of years now and the same for Yorston L and River.
So hopefully this is the year....
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rob_in_angus
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Post Number: 32
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 3:45 pm: |
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Have a good trip Ed. I will be there from May 3rd to 8th inclusive. Maybe will will run into each other. |
ghost_brigade
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Post Number: 55
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 7:08 pm: |
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Ed, we will be in the Chiniguchi area from the 5-11. We will be exploring the unnamed lakes NE of O-jeeg Mo-kid-jee-wan-ong. Happy travels, paddle safe.
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canoebear
Member
Post Number: 403
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 2:38 pm: |
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We'll light-up our old kerosene lamps & encampment fires from yer voyager torch reappearance from tha NE Wilds.
All of us by nature desire to no,
how to move + carry our lamp lights better thru darkness, by-way of yer spring advance, Heya! |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 428
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 8:04 pm: |
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Early this morning I was on kid recovery and that chore is done.. Now it is Sunday night. The van is packed, the canoe is fastened to the top, axe,saw and brush cutters are behind the front seat ready to deal with the Spring obstacles on the bush roads.Packs, paddles and an array of modern trinkets with strange new names are loaded.
It feels almost euphoric now, as I wait out the night, before setting off in the morning mist for the first canoe trip of the 2007 season.
I might be close by to O-jeeg Mo-kid-jee-wan-ong when you are passing through ghost_brigade.Perhaps we will meet.
You have a good trip too Rob... but I think we will be many miles apart this time, if you are sticking to your plan.
Thank you for your kind words canoebear. A Spring trip in the NE wilds is a tune up for the main event, two months in the NW wilds of the boreal forests travelling on old fur trade routes in the Ogoki Forest.Then a final month back in the NE wilds of Temagami, until the leaves fall from the trees and the forest begins to go silent again. |
tsm
Member
Post Number: 99
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 9:14 pm: |
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Have a great trip Ed! Stay safe. |
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