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yellowcanoe
Member
Post Number: 44
Registered: 01-2010
| | Posted on Friday, April 9, 2010 - 5:26 pm: | 
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So....now that Pilgrim's out of the picture, anyone have a best guess for the Talking Falls/Yorston Pinetorch link area in terms of being canoeable/trackable? I still like Fireman's suggestion of coming up through here via Sturgeon, Yorston Lake, and Seagram...
btw, I ask the same question in another thread ... please disregard |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 804
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 8:19 am: |
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I think you will have to wait until the last minute, Yellowcanoe, to decide where to go.
I have been on the Sturgeon on 3 spring trips and have never seen the water as low as in the pictures posted by canoedog.
I would watch the rain fall up there over the next 2-3 weeks to see if there is any dramatic change in water levels in the area.
If the levels remain real low and you are concerned,you can always do a lake trip instead of a river trip. |
yellowcanoe
Member
Post Number: 48
Registered: 01-2010
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 9:58 pm: |
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ed - looks like water levels aren't improving. At this point, I'm not sure what would be worse: ascending Ames Creek to Florence or moving west from Pinetorch through to Yorston River and then Bluesucker.
Thoughts? Guesses? Speculations? Wild conjectures?
(Message edited by yellowcanoe on May 4, 2010) |
otter_mel
Member
Post Number: 145
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 12:52 pm: |
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I'd go up Ames Creek, going west through Mudchannel maybe a bit of slog if water levels are as low as you say |
alscool
Moderator
Post Number: 245
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 1:06 pm: |
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Yellow Canoe,
Ed has sent news from the Pinetorch Conservation Reserve that water levels are 6' below last years observed levels of Mid May. He did not say that the low water this week was a hinderance to his progress. He also reported that Blackflies are in business. |
yellowcanoe
Member
Post Number: 49
Registered: 01-2010
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 2:02 pm: |
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I'm asking the wrong question. It should be which route has fewer blackflies, Ames Creek or Pinetorch? 
Thanks for the info everyone. |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1186
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 9:51 am: |
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Mother Nature's press secretary says "No comment." |
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