EGL's 2019 Winter Season

**Jayson** · 01-25-2019, 12:54

Originally Posted by ggreaves

I'm available to go in Friday but I probably won't go in alone so I'll wait to find out when others are going. If I do go in alone - just follow the blood splatters to my frozen (self)dismembered body. I've gotta work on my knife and axe safety skills.

Me and Mark will be driving up in the morning. Not sure of the time...its about 4.5 or 5 hrs from my house. PM me your number and we can co-ordinate something.

**Chard** · 01-25-2019, 13:48

Looks like there might be quite a few of us out for a waxing moonlight walk. It's very likely that I'll be hitting the trail well after sunset on Friday night as well, maybe as late as 10pm.

Out of the dark they stumbled into camp....

**Mr.hammockcamper** · 01-25-2019, 13:58

Just to clarify, we are camping on the Sunday lake dog trail?

I will also most likely be coming in late Friday night, possibly Saturday morning.

Can’t wait!!!!!!

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**Chard** · 01-25-2019, 15:00

Originally Posted by Mr.hammockcamper

Just to clarify, we are camping on the Sunday lake dog trail?

I will also most likely be coming in late Friday night, possibly Saturday morning.

Can’t wait!!!!!!

If it's okay with everybody, let's bite the bullet and settle on the Sunday Lake Dogsled Trail Feb 8th-10th and beyond.

Important for Late Arrivers: I just called the Park about getting our permits after hours. Because Algonquin's East and West Gates close at 4pm, their suggestion was to call the Park at 705-633-5572 on Thursday Feb 7th between 9am-3pm and book the permit over the phone. You need to provide your name, plate number, start date, end date and location and it must be paid for by credit card at a rate of $12.45/night. Have a paper and pencil ready so that you can write down the information for a DIY permit for your car.

For those of you heading in early, please have mercy on the late arrivals and don't head in too far! One advantage of heading in late is that we won't get in the way of the dogsleds running up and down the trail, I just hope there's not too much poop!

**Bubba** · 01-29-2019, 02:41

I think we should just aim for the Sliver creek Junction and that lake that's west of Bluebird lake. That looks to be the nearest larger body of water a little over 2km from the trailhead. I think it's a reasonable distance especially if the trail is well established and relatively level. Chard I'm guessing you're bringing your auger? If we're not accessing water then we can camp closer to the cars anywhere off the trail that looks promising. The creek runs parallel to the trail and there looks to be a pond about a quarter of the way up.

**ggreaves** · 01-29-2019, 10:45

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The lake west of bluebird is pretty much muskeg but there appears to be a few spots with open water for the auger. Sounds like a good plan.

**Chard** · 01-29-2019, 19:59

Two km!?!

I wasn't planning on bringing the auger, although I might throw it in the trunk. Like Ggreaves said, I don't think there'll be any water unless we do an extra 500 m east, and even then, I don't know about the ice conditions.

**Bubba** · 01-29-2019, 20:24

In that case we can just go in a little and find a spot off the trail. Maybe the creek water will be accessible.

**Chard** · 01-29-2019, 21:43

I can bring my big pot and we can keep it filled with melting snow by the fire and use it as a communal water source throughout the day.

I was also going to bring a large thermos to keep my water/coffee/hot toddy warm throughout the day.

Three feet of snow as of Jan 29th!

http://algonquinsnowmobileclub.ca/webcam/

**Bubba** · 01-30-2019, 05:03

Reminder to bring some kind of filter for water unless you like bits of forest debris in your water. I tried coffee filters on my first snowshoe trip years ago and it was way too slow. I use a reusable coffee filter that has larger holes which works well enough for the bits you find in snow.