Crossing Killarney - 6 day Canoe Trip in the Crown Jewel of Canadian Wilderness
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2023
- For 6 days, my wife and I canoed and camped, plotting a route across Killarney Provincial Park from west side at Bell Lake Access point, to Willisville on the opposite east side of the park. We stayed on Great Mountain Lake, Howry Lake, Nellie Lake, and Grace Lake. This is a very scenic route, and one of the more remote canoe routes through Killarney, that avoids the crowds for the most part. Our shuttle and canoe was provided by Killarney Outfitters, please contact them if you would like to do the same trip in the park.
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Amazing trip. Looks like you guys feasted like kings the whole trip. Thanks for sharing.
It was super fun. We definitely ate like kings on this one. Glad you liked it.
Well done guys, enjoyed your adventure… take care and thanks
Hope you liked it. The route is beautiful across the park...minus the mud on Howry Creek 😁
It looked like a fun trip Steve. Killarney is a place I have never visited... I think next summer I will rectify that.
Thanks Dennis. It was a blast and Pari was a trooper. You should certainly consider Killarney for a trip, I've been going every year for nearly 4 decades! The 46° in my company name is for the line of latitude that runs across Silver Peak in Killarney. It's my favorite place.
As a former boy scout, I'm shocked you didn't know the tautline hitch. xD That's probably one of three knots I consistently use. Super useful!
Hahaha. Oh ,I know, it's almost embarrassing. Now it is etched in my mind for life.
A lovely trip and congrats on learning the tautline hitch! Better late than never. Inspired by an old video of yours, I have all my guy lines cut to 6 feet long (easy to manage, shorten, lengthen as needed) but I guess I learned the tautline hitch from somewhere else. :)
Nice! I seem to have lost some of my guyline management skills over the years 😂
Great video. Nice to see folks leaving wood for the next paddler. You never know, the ones coming in next could be showing up in the dark, cold and wet! Makes for good karma 😀
Thanks, glad you liked it. The wood was a very nice, unexpected surprise, at the 2 campsites. I like to leave a nicely piled supply as well. It can be a life saver if you come off the water cold. We actually just came off the Madawaska yesterday with ice frozen all over us and the boat house let us sleep inside with the fireplace roaring...man, the outdoor community is great.
@@Suluk46 Awesome, looking forward to that video 👍
Great video, we watched your previous Killarney stuff before we did a 3 week trip there this past July, which included a improvised version of the boundary loop covering a lot of the lakes and portages you two did here. Not gonna lie, there was a little Post Killarney Stress Disorder seeing the David to Great Mountain portage again. We faced lower water levels than you two and read nearly the same postings at the Bell Lake access, the water at Howry Creek started a 30 or so meters further out in the mud so we backtracked to Round Otter>Goose>Rocky Channel>Van Winkle>Cat>Howry from Great Mountain. It sucked (in a great and memorable way), but still looked like more fun than trudging through the mud. Love that you guys aren't afraid to embrace the suck.
I had to go back and look at the map to see where you detoured. We actually considered heading back up and over top of Howry because I thought we were going to have to camp in the swamp. Luckily the water got deep enough after about 2 km that I could pull Pari in the canoe, but as soon as I got it, we would bottom out. We survived and it makes a great story, but I wouldn't put my wife through that again! Killarney is a gem, we try and go every year. Paddle safe my friend.
@@Suluk46 We love Killarney as well, I wouldn't be born if not for my parents meeting there in '72, and my wife and I got married there last year. We've spent a lot of time there the last few years.
Going the long way sort of became a running theme of our modified boundary loop trip this year, mostly intentional just to see more lakes. Its the toughest days that seem to make the biggest impression though. We got rained on really hard and repeatedly going from Helen Lake to McGregor Bay, got confused as hell looking for a secret entrance to the last portage between islands of floating grass and had to curl up and wrap ourselves in a tarp for 20 minutes to sit out a thunder storm on the East Channel. That was my wife's favorite day on the water.
She has a lot of respect for seeing what Pari does out there with you, and I suspect she can relate in a lot of ways. We're lucky to have wives willing to do this, it does make it all the more special.
im trying to follow along on google maps. so on day one you portaged from bell lake to great mountain lake.... ? but you somehow missed david lake?
The portage into David Lake is at 1:48. Not much footage of the lake itself, just a minute.