On our first afternoon following the three-hour drive north along Fraserdale Road from Cochrane, we paddled 16km to Adam Creek Provincial Reserve, where a series of elevated gravel bars on either side offers a few good options for tenting. Part I: 86km on the Mattagami River from Kipling OPG Hydro Station to the junction of the Missinaibi River and the start of the Moose River Part III: Moose Factory, Moosonee, and the Polar Bear Express. Part II: 94km on the Moose River from the Missinaibi junction to the (former) Tidewater Provincial Park. Part I: 86km on the Mattagami River from Kipling OPG Hydro Station to the junction with the Missinaibi River and the start of the Moose River. Three men, two boats (one a 17-foot Nova Craft Prospector canoe the other a 13.5-foot open-water kayak) and about two hundred and fifty pounds of outfit. This is a summary account of an expedition of the lower Mattagami and Moose Rivers from July 29 to August 6, 2014. The Mattagami River at sunset from Sandbar Island The water curdled to life as rapids and goose tails and the breaching of trout, while on either bank the dark, empty woods remained disarmingly silent. On a mucky gravel bar downriver from a towering hydro dam we took to the water like creaky old boy scouts, haphazardly greased in bug juice and squinting through the drizzle.Īll around us the boreal forest went by as unmetered verse:
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