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Spring 2006 Ii Summer 2017 Vol. 44 No. 2 Quarterly Journal of the Wilderness Canoe Association Our group (Carmine, Mike, Colin, Tom) Lockhart River – Pike’s Portage Canoe Trip Journal Excerpts: July 15-August 8, 2015 Story by Carmine Minutillo Photos by Carmine Minutillo, Colin Phillips and Tom Glassco Day 1-3 The Drive a party went north on Artillery Lake and we figured that After many years of waiting and many months of planning, we could do a trip like that someday. After a few more we were ready to leave for our 2015 Pike’s Portage canoe challenging river trips and some extended trips to James trip in the Northwest Territories. Scotty and I had spawned Bay and Northern Ontario, we decided that this would be the idea for this trip at the Canadian Canoe Symposium in the year. I spoke to Bob Henderson about Pike’s Portage Toronto about five years ago. We saw a presentation where and he gave me his book and later traveled to Kingston to mark up my maps. Likewise Morten Day 4 July 18, 2015 and some survey stakes. We put both Asfeldt, who co-authored the book In the Barrens at Last pack canoes together with no issues. with Bob, was also kind enough to We woke up in the morning to a north - They fit together much better this time mark up my maps, which got me really east wind. It was cloudy from as we had already practiced a couple excited about the forthcoming trip. Yellowknife and cold, possibly 13 to times at the house before leaving on Although, in the end, Scotty was not 15°C. The Air Tindi beaver was loaded the trip. able to go, Mike was in. We needed to up with gear and we took off at 8:15 When launching our canoes early in find two more paddlers and Colin and am. It was about an hour and 30 minute the day, we had to get our feet wet. Tom jumped in just before crunch plane ride to McKay Lake, which is There were lots of rocks in the shal - time. In my trip planning, I had read northeast from Yellowknife. The float - lows and we would have become stuck books on Pike’s Portage and the north plane pilot was having trouble finding on the rocks and shallow rapids. We by Warburton Pike, James William a good landing spot, as McKay Lake also had to line the canoes by hand a Tyrrell, Bob and Morten’s book, a was rocky and shallow in many places. few times on this portion of the book about Guy Blanchet and books We ended up landing a little further Lockhart River, as it had lots of small by Seton. I had spent many hours try - southeast than I would have preferred, sets of rapids with lots of rocks. The ing to find historical places that were which made for a longer paddle to start canoes were great for sliding over the referenced in these books on my maps the day. To get to the mouth of the rocks and in shallow areas, sliding over and marked things up as much as I Lockhart River, we were dropped off easily instead of gripping and catching. could. By the 15th of July, we were along a rocky ridge where there were We had the wind at our back on McKay ready to go. some old, empty aviation fuel barrels Lake, which helped. It was a cool day. I Carmine with a big Lake Trout on Clinton-Colden Lake. 2 NASTAWGAN SUMMER 2017 Carmine and Mike determining the best route through rapids on the Lockhart River between McKay Lake and the Outram Lakes. was wearing a long-sleeved shirt, a T- over 20 pounds, maybe 30 pounds. I supper, which included turkey and shirt, a hooded sweatshirt, my raincoat, caught my biggest lake trout at the gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and my lifejacket, long johns and pants, campsite that night. It was an old one carrots. Most notably here at the camp - and a toque and it was still cool at with a hooked mouth. By the end of the site is that there are no trees at all. The times, even though I was paddling. day, we had traveled about 21 km with largest plants or shrubs of any kind Having my feet in the cold water didn’t one 800 m portage. Everything seemed don’t really go much higher than my help warm things up. different here. The plants were all dif - hips. Mike caught one grayling today The fishing was great at the end of ferent and nothing was familiar with and two lake trout. Tom caught one the first portage, but the wind pushed the exception of some cloudberry or grayling. Mike is really hoping to catch us down the lake pretty quickly after bake apple plants, which reminded me a trophy fish at some point during this each cast. My first fish was a two and a of Wabakimi. The bugs at the campsite trip. As we were all feeling pretty tired half pound arctic grayling with beauti - were bearable, but they were horrible from the day’s travel and the last few ful bluish gray colours and the large on McKay Lake. Our first campsite days of driving, we retired to our tents dorsal fin. My second fish was about a was on the Lockhart River, about 10 early and went to bed. We were all in three pound lake trout, again with km south of McKay Lake along a set of our tents by nine o’clock and sleeping beautiful colours. That day I caught 10 small rapids. Finding a campsite by 10 o’clock. fish in total, consisting of eight lake seemed easy as there were many places trout and two arctic grayling. The fight where we could have set up our tents. Day 5 July 19, 2015 on these fish was incredible, much Moss made the ground soft and easy to The Grizzly Bears more than any of those caught in any sleep on, although there were some While lining the Lockhart River, I part of Ontario. The largest fish was rocky bumps. We had turkey dinner for heard Colin yell back to us. The river NASTAWGAN SUMMER 2017 3 Mother Grizzly Bear with her two cubs on the Lockhart River southeast of McKay Lake. was only about 75 feet wide and when into the Outram Lakes. We could see around. I looked up, we saw three grizzly bears eskers from the plane, which looked a As we were paddling, we could see on the opposite shore – a mom and two lot like dirt roads winding through the fins and swirls in the water. We weren’t cubs. I wasn’t concerned at that mo - landscape. The eskers were big and sure what they were at first, but we ment, but the cubs definitely seemed sandy and were elevated from most of took a few casts and started catching interested in us and were looking to the other terrain. We got to our camp - lake trout. As it turns out, the lake trout cross the river. I was concerned that if site around 8:00. In total, we traveled tend to swim close to the surface of the the cubs did cross the river with mom 37 km today with four portages to - water and skim the surface for small on the other side, this would alarm her talling about 3 km. We were all asleep minnows and bugs. We ended up catch - as the cubs would be on the same side by 11:00. ing some of those lake trout, with of the river as us. Fortunately, mom many in the 10 pound range. I had seen also felt uncomfortable with the situa - Day 7 July 21, 2015 lake trout in the water before, but never tion and urged her cubs to move along. Sharks and Surveys skimming the surface like a shark They scampered away with the cubs We found a rock cairn on Aylmer Lake while looking for food. The water in standing on two legs and looking back with a survey stake marking from Aylmer Lake was really cold and crys - frequently. Their mom had to keep 1924, which I believe may have been tal clear, making it easy to see the nudging them along and they left over put in by Guy Blanchett’s team. It was rocky bottom many metres down. a hill after a few minutes. We also saw exciting to find as I had read about three bald eagles, which I thought was Blanchett’s travels in the north. I Day 8 July 22, 2015 odd as there are no trees. We saw lots walked to the top of the hill near our Musk Ox, Monuments, and Views of ducks too. We went over an esker campsite, which had a great view. I noticed something small and black at near where the Lockhart River empties There were lots of bone fragments the top of a ridge in the distance. I took 4 NASTAWGAN SUMMER 2017 out my binoculars, but could not make growling or purring was deep and loud. uine draw for me during the trip plan - out what it was. I figured it was an an - Three musk ox came closer to us along ning. imal of some sort as it seemed to be the point of the arm on which we were We decided to portage our things up moving. After about an hour of pad - beached and stared at us for about 5 to the top of the hill, which was a dling, it became evident that it was a minutes.
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