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bush_pilot
Member
Post Number: 219
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2012 - 11:13 am: | 
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Any one with 3 or 4 hours to kill in Temagami really should check out the White Bear Forest trails. It's a short paddle from the Temagami Boat Livery on Snake Lake to the dock at Pecours Bay, trail maps are available at Temagami Outfitters. I hiked the the figure 8 trail (I forget the trail name) through the central part of the penninsula. A beautiful walk through old growth forest. |
bush_pilot
Member
Post Number: 220
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 9:15 pm: |
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grncnu
Member
Post Number: 241
Registered: 08-2010
| | Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 12:44 am: |
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thanks bush pilot i for one will check it out! |
curly
Member
Post Number: 373
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 10:52 am: |
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Trails are also accessible from the Caribou Mt fire tower parking lot. |
wrn109
Member
Post Number: 6
Registered: 08-2009
| | Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012 - 8:20 am: |
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I've thought about walking that trail over the years. I'll be in Temagami beginning Sept 8 and I'm going to walk it this year. Thanks bush pilot! |
wrn109
Member
Post Number: 7
Registered: 08-2009
| | Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012 - 12:54 pm: |
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This photo is along the way to another old growth patch south of Cooper Lake. Do you remember your trip to this one bush pilot? |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1469
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012 - 2:26 pm: |
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Always wondered about that camp as it may be an old logging camp. Know the owners? |
wrn109
Member
Post Number: 8
Registered: 08-2009
| | Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012 - 9:30 pm: |
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Brian, Your quite likely right about it originally being an old logging camp. What I can remember from gatherings at the Arkoka Camp is that one of the original owners was Leo Belanger. I don't recall where he was from. The next owner was Sandy Pontrell from Ohio. Consequently the camp was nicknamed "Ohio Camp". I'm told Sandy was a trapper. When Sandy died his daughter inherited the camp. She was a lawyer in Florida. In the late 1990s a lightning strike took out the structures (kitchen & ice shack) near the middle of the island. There wasn't much activity around the camp until she sold it to Chuck Chandra in 2002. Chuck is from the Delhi Ontario area and is quite familiar with the area. He has since built a self supporting cabin on the island and restored two of the original cabins on the south end. |
bush_pilot
Member
Post Number: 221
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012 - 9:34 pm: |
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wrn109
I remember this camp well from my days working at Lakeland Airways. I'm not surprised about it belonging to a trapper at one time, I seem to recall a lot of stuffed animals in the cabins. |
bush_pilot
Member
Post Number: 222
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012 - 9:42 pm: |
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Another photo of White Bear forest. Its my new favourite place to take cottage guests. |
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