Trip Journal/Log/Report/Diary:
Our original plan was to do route 34 but we weren't paying attention and following another group and by the time we were over the first portage we realized we were on the wrong route. La Verendrye is a self rescue park meaning you have to call them, they won't go looking for you; combine that with the fact that you don't book individual lakes, we decided to carry on route 30 instead of back tracking. The portages were quick and easy, lots of pink orchids and butterflies to keep the girls quite happy and busy. We found many small schooling fish in the shallows of Lac Canimina, must be good fishing. A few motor boats but not distracting.
Lac Nichcotea was flooded as the map indicates and the shoreline has changed. There is one open water crossing here that I would watch if the wind picks up. Grand Lac is beautiful. Small sandy beaches and the only place we saw other canoes.
Comments
August 2003
campsites
30-24. (Rating 8/10) A large roomy campsite. Good, open beach.
30-50 island camp (Rating 9/10). Big wind sheltered bay and really good beach. Rough table and lots of large logs for seating. Two fire-pits and grates. 2 groupings of tent sites flat and fairly large.
30-73 (rating 7/10). Open rock promontory with table, firepit, grates but sheltered tent sites. Sheltered landing for 2 canoes and lots of good rocks for swimming, very small beach.
30-102. (Rating 2/10). Awful. Emergencies only and buggy. Tent sites almost non-extent.
30-101 (rating 6/10). Nice small site. No beach but tent sites protected.
The trip is an East-West oval. Westerly winds can be a factor.
The portage between Lac Myon and Lac Canimina is now approx 1.5K as the stream is no longer runnable.
just an update on the above information, site 30-10 is just right of the outcropping at the northeast end of Grand Lac and a choice site, fairly large beach, 4 large tentsites with seclusion of each other, a well developed firepit area, all in a cedar grove, very clean. We stayed here on another trip Route 34