The Start

 

On Friday evening, 15 August, three SUVs arrived at the Emma Lake cabin between 8.30 and 9.15 pm, carrying Warren, Sandy and Keiran; Brent and Russ with Brent's canoe on top; and Jason and Craig. We all immediately launched into beer and Joyce's big casserole of cabbage rolls, followed by a few tots of Scotch. The next morning we were up at 6.00 am and loaded all our gear into Brent's and Jason's cars, and Warren's canoe onto Jason's roof rack. We were off for the north by 7.00 am.

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and then continued another 80 km. to the Churchill River. We went straight to our put-in spot on Devil Lake and unloaded all the equipment. We shuttled the two cars the 8 km back to Missinipe to Ric Dreiger's Churchill River Canoe Outfitters, where we rented another canoe for Jason and Craig. We told Ric our plans, and he said that a bear had been giving problems in that area, raiding camper's food and even chewing the foam knee pads from one of Ric's canoes. We left Jason's car in Ric's care and shuttled back with the canoe to the rest of the party at Devil Lake.

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While still on shore, Brent demonstrated some basic strokes to Russ

 

 

 

     We loaded up and were on the water at 11.00 am, for the half hour paddle to Mosquito Falls.

 

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