Adventure Miles

Month: July 2021

  • Casques Iles Hike

    Casques Iles Hike

    The Casques Îles hike is a 53km hike from Rossport, Ontario to Terrence Bay, Ontario

    The trail

    Day 1 – Rossport to Rainbow Fall Provincial Park

    After driving from Sault Sainte Marie I arrived in Rossport around 2 in the afternoon. I checked that I had everything I needed for the hike, loaded up my pack at 23lbs, and headed out at about 2:20. The trail is relatively easy to follow with a few overgrown areas that you just have to watch out for. The trail starts out flat and I manges to maintain 3k/hr for the first couple of hours. The terrain then changed to a more rocky trail with lots of ups and downs to lookouts and streams. No sign of bears except for a big pile of bear scat right in the middle of the trail. That was the only sign of wildlife I saw. After seven hours of hiking I reached Rainbow Falls just in time to get a campsite before they closed. Setup my tent, grabbed a quick meal, had a shower, and collapsed into bed know I needed an early start for another 15km the next day.

    Day 1

    Day 2 – Rainbow Falls to Schreiber Beach

    Day 2
  • Killarney Adventure

    Killarney Adventure

    Follow the adventures of Cindy, Jo-Ann, Lawrence, and Miles as we explore the beautiful Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario.

    The reservations are made. Plans are set. Lift-off is Saturday with a 5.5-hour drive to our first stop Restoule Provincial Park.

    All packed and ready to leave
    Wait at rest stop near Chaulk River for Jo-Ann, Cindy, and Lawrence
    Convoy
    Setting up camp for one night at Restoule

    Restoule Provincial Park was our first stop on our Killarney adventure. Here we went through everyone’s bag to double check we weren’t carrying extra gear on the upcoming portages.

    Beach at Restoule
    First fire of the week

    Killarney Day One

    With a quick pack up we left Restoule by 7 am to make sure we got to George Lake Killarney for our 11 am water taxi to Baie Fine. After a little scare with one of the cars running low on fuel we managed to find a gas station with about 8 km left in the tank. Clear driving from there to George Lake.

    Arrived at George Lake 10 am

    After checking in at the park office it was off to Killarney Outfitters to see about the water taxi and rental canoes.

    After confirming our canoes and water taxi we drove into the town of Killarney to the marina to load up the water taxi.

    Almost packed and ready to go.

    Our captain for the water taxi to Baie Fine was Ted East, owner of Killarney Outfitters, who has been a supporter of the Killarney area since 1964. He can be seen in the video about paddle in Killay. https://youtu.be/-AmR6qRbP6Q

    Our first campsite at Baie Fine in an area called The Pool

  • 1000 Islands – Gananoque, Ontario

    1000 Islands – Gananoque, Ontario

    The club couldn’t have picked a better day to go back to 1000 Islands. Launching from the kayak boat launch located next to Joel Stone Heritage Park https://w3w.co/upshot.eardrum.landmarks we paddled to the shipwreck, Halfmoon Bay, and a large Osprey nest. Taking a break for lunch to eat and swim.

    Followed by a small bonfire