Barry Bridgeford (host of this website) and his pal Bill Warren, took a five day jaunt to Otterslide Lake late in June of this year. Rather than compose a detailed trip-log, Barry has put together some of the trip's photos into a "Flash-driven" slide show .. Canoe Lake to Otterslide Lake and Back.

"Not everyone may have "Adobe Flash Player" installed on their computer. However, after polling the readers of the Algonquin Adventures forum, it was obvious that the vast majority did. The slide show was created using "JAlbum", see ... www.jalbum.net . And, it uses the "BananAlbum skin" ... www.bananalbum.com . To check out the status of your computer regarding Adobe Flash Player, go to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ . There's a rectangle in the middle of the page that indicates if you have it installed and which version. .

David Pile (aka "Jester") has submitted a trip-log of his September 2007 - Canoe Lake to Big Trout Lake and Back, by way of Joe, Burnt Island and Otterslide Lakes.

"This day marked the return south along Otterslide Creek and a chance to prove to ourselves that we could not have missed the portage sign earlier in the week. We got going early and crossed Big Trout and entered the bay leading to the first portage before any wind developed. Fresh in our minds, although the reverse direction, we made good progress through the creek and portages and laughed at ourselves when we arrived at the upstream end of the third portage as we headed south. The "missing" portage sign was starring at us, plain as day so we humbly admitted a navigation failure on our outbound leg."

Jeffrey McMurtrie has published an online trip-log of his 19 Days in Algonquin Park .. July 18 - August 5, 2008 looping out of Canoe Lake, via Drummer, Panther, Clara, McCraney, Islet, Daisy, Misty, Big Trout, LaMuir, Hogan, Big Crow, Red Rock, Happy Isle, Otterslide and Burnt Island Lakes.

"Upon reaching the beginning of our next portage, the longest of the day at just over 1400m, we look some time to look at the dam controlling the level of the Big East R, and, by extension, Lake Vernon in Huntsville. One can tell that this dam is not modified very often because the padlock on the wheel controlling the dams level is rusted almost beyond recognition. Some people supposedly white water canoe on this river - I can only imagine that to be a rocky journey .."

Tom Yates has submitted a trip-log of his group's river journey down the Petawawa Travers to McManus on the Petawawa - Aug. 2008 .

"The water level was high because of all the rain this year so we were going to portage both Thompson's HOWEVER two of our members decided to give it a shot rather than carry. They had portaged the gear already so they were just going in the empty canoe. The results were less than spectacular as they dumped no less than 10 feet into the rapid and ended up on the far shore. They got in and proceeded to dump again and float down to the rest of us. A humbling experience for sure!"

Julian Andean has submitted a trip-log of his four-day Big Crow Vacation .

"As soon as we hit the Crow River like we'd suddenly stepped into a zoo. Everywhere we turned there were moose, moose of all shapes sizes and ages. I was astonished, usually I had to be out early in the early morning, or at sunset to see them, but this was the middle of the afternoon, and they were everywhere. Picture taking galore ensued, my friends were delighted, if somewhat intimidated by the sheer size of some of these creatures."

Julian Andean has submitted his mid-July, 2008 Cedar - Petawawa - Burntroot - Whiskeyjack - Nipissingwww trip-log.

"I pressed on ahead to the end of the portage only to set my load down, turn around, and find that I'd lost Kevin. I'm starting to make a bad habit out of this. Walking back along the portage I found Kevin tangled in the bushes where the portage splits off, with one trail being the portage, and the other trail heading over to the falls. Since we planned to take pics anyways, Kevin set down the canoe pack and we headed off for a look-see."

The Canada Science and Technology Museum has produced a special Searching for the Sublime: Algonquin Park and the Origins of Wilderness Tourism in Canada .. which includes an animated presentation of what it meant to escape to Algonquin Park in the earlier part of the twentieth century.

"... a small number of notable individuals were drawn to the Park by strongly held aesthetic, religious, scientific, educational, humanistic and feminist concerns and convictions. These were the searchers. Through their actions and examples, such individuals imbued the experience of being in the Park with meaning .."

Randy Born has submitted a trip-log of his Big Trout Trip, May 2008 .. a four day fishing trip. It's in PDF format and weighs in at 1 meg.

"We had a slight tail wind and we were able to troll most of Big Trout. Just past the big island I got stuck and ended up donating one of my favorite lures to the fish gods. Shortly after that, I was sure I was stuck again and as I attempted to get unstuck I found I had latched on to a lake trout. My light test gear with 4 lb mono was put to the test (this time the drag was properly set ) and about 10 minutes later we had the trout in the net. Photo was taken and then the lake trout was returned to grow bigger and smarter."