Chris Lawson has posted a trip-log of his late September 4-day canoe trip .. Canoe - Burnt Island - Big Trout - Tom Thomson.

"It was, in fact a smouldering root fire that had, at that point, consumed a circle maybe 6m diameter on this island which, itself was maybe 30 or 40m across. At the centre of the fire circle was a smallish ring of rocks with a few burnt logs in the middle. It seemed like someone had freelanced a fire pit right on top of the loam and the predictable had happened — the roots underneath the soil had caught fire."

Drew (forum handle: "AlgonquinLakes") has posted a trip-log on his All Of Algonquin website .. of his recent weekender to Radiant Lake with three coworkers, ... Radiant Lake

"We paddled around for a bit, then made our way back to the Squirrel Rapids where we decided to portage up and paddle down a few times so that we could tell everyone what whitewater paddling badasses we were when we got home."

Maegan M. has added a trip-log to her blog .. of a late August 'mother-daughter' get-away-weekend .. Algonquin In Three Days: Magnetawan, Hambone, Daisy Lakes.

"Acme Pond was a quick windless paddle before beaching on the 420m portage into Daisy Lake. I remember this portage being relatively easy, but this year it was very muddy. This was also the longest portage I’ve ever carried a canoe on my own. I’ve travelled significantly longer portages, but this was a first with a canoe over my own head!"

Randy Born has submitted a trip-log of his late-August 3-day canoe trip .. Big Trout Revisited After 40+ Years (in PDF format).

"A day of rest and relaxation was in store. We slept in till 8:45 and had a leisurely breakfast of bagels, porridge and coffee. We left camp to fish Big Trout at 10 and trolled for the next 3 hours. We were able to have lunch at the previous desired point campsite, as the family had moved on and memories of past times made for a pleasant lunch."

Drew (forum handle: "AlgonquinLakes") has posted a 3-part addition to his All Of Algonquin website ... The Brent Crawl – Part 1: White Trout or Bust ... The Brent Crawl – Part 2: Great Weather For Making Bad Choices ... The Brent Crawl – Part 3: Stumbling Towards Cedar ...

"I spent a good five minutes at the start of the portage planning my strategy and generally procrastinating. So far this trip I’d been carrying my packs over to the other side on each portage, then coming back for the canoe. However, the thought of getting to the other side, seeing the water, then having to walk another 4.6KM before I was done seemed just terrible .. "

Wanda Spruyt has submitted four new campsite descriptions to the website's Portage Campsite Inventory (PCI) ...

North Tea Lake CS #23,   North Tea Lake CS #56,

Lost Dog Lake CS #2,   Lost Dog Lake CS #3

"AlgonquinLakes" (forum-handle) has the website All of Algonquin .

"At the start of 2016 I set a goal to paddle 100 of Algonquin Park’s lakes before the end of the summer. I realized that, while I had been a regular visitor to the Park since 1999 (first working at Camp Ahmek on Canoe Lake and later with my wife and kids) I really hadn’t seen as much of the Park as I should have. I decided to fix that and make up for 17 years of neglect in one summer. 97 Days and 101 lakes later, I realized that those first 100 lakes were just the tip of the iceberg."

"Basil L." and his buddy Chris took a 4-day canoe trip north out of the north arm of Lake Opeongo .. looping through Happy Isle, Merchant, Big Trout, Longer, La Muir, Hogan, Big Crow, and Proulx Lakes .. May 19-22 - Big Trout, Lake la Muir, Big Crow.

"Loading up the canoe at the end of the huge piece of shield rock that this site is situated on, I lost my footing while taking my pack off and ended up just barely saving myself from a full dunk. It was a steep angled rock that went straight in, but I was able to get both hands down behind me while taking a good soak from the crotch down. Luckily Chris was able to give me a quick hand to recover and no harm was done."

"Cici Canoe" and "L.T." took a Canada Day long weekend canoe trip from Cedar Lake to Radiant Lake and back .. Cedar to Radiant: Canada Day Weekend.

"Radiant Lake wasn't horribly choppy, but it wasn't flat either. And the wind was blowing directly in our faces. It took about 35 minutes to get to the mouth of the Petawawa River. We were going upstream today and it was moving faster than it looked. The first part of the river is a long paddle and with each twist of the river, the wind would blow at us again."

"Neelands" has posted his 28-photo well-captioned and mapped 'Smugmug' account of his early season solo canoe trip out of Magnetawan Lake.. 2017 May 16-20 Little Eagle-Daisy-Ralph Bice Lk.

"First night on Little Eagle, then back past the access point to Daisy Lake for Night Two. Portage to Ralph Bice and Nights Three and Four on that lake. No earth-shattering epic travel here. Just wanted to warm up for the season with short and easy paddling days and to check out this corner of the park before the bugs hit."

"Cici Canoe" and "L.T." took an early-season three-day canoe trip to the upper end of Grande Lake this year .. Grand Lake: May 20 to 22, 2017.

"I was nervous thinking about the swift under the train track bridge. The very first time we went up that swift in 2014, it was really high and flowing very fast. Last year the water was very low and it was a different challenge trying not to hit any rocks. This year it was almost perfect. Enough water to not be in danger of hitting any rocks .."

Back on May 4th, Robert M. (a.k.a. 'Uppa') ended up running most of the Opeongo River rapids by accident. His first day took him all the way to Round Island Lake by way of Booth Lake and a string of northbound portages. Check out his videos at Algonquin Solo Spring Camping Trip - Part 1 and Algonquin Solo Spring Camping Trip - Part 2 .. returning to Lake Opeongo by way of a logging access road, after a bad turn in the weather.

"I've never taken a GPS on a camping trip, and usually I don't even have Jeff's map loaded on my phone. The time of year and the forecast had me especially nervous about this trip, however, so I took more precautions than usual, which turned out to be a really fortunate decision."

Early this month, Cobi Sharpe headed out from Canoe Lake on her first solo canoe trip. The wind, rain and snow put her to the test. Check out her blog Waboose Adventures for "Why I Went Out Alone in Algonquin" .. Part One .. and .. Part Two .. both have a video component.

"So not only did I have a red sky in the morning, but I also had a mackerel sky. Because I had been faced with rain, wind and snow during my trip, and I had to change my route and just do what I could, it was probably a good idea for me to decide to head out of the park. The last thing I wanted was to be stranded because of windy conditions, but I also didn’t want to pack up all my gear wet and deal with drying it out later."

Drew Czernik has posted an account in his blog All of Algonquin of the canoe trip he took from Crotch Lake to McKaskill Lake and back, earlier this month (portaging out via a logging access road).

"With the rose coloured glasses of hindsight planted firmly in front of my eyes, the hydro cut part of the portage was actually pretty cool. The weather and topography along the cut made for scenery that was stark and harsh and somehow quite pretty. There’s something otherworldly about walking through clear-cut rolling hills along a barren gravel road that stretches out both ahead and behind you and looks like it’s never going to end."