River travel: Novice to Tim Lake.
A slow wide meandering trip into Tim Lake, A few deadheads easily missed.
Intermediate from the Portage to Rosebary Lake
The Tim river from the portage is shallow, narrow and meanders between bushes
and thick grasses. There is one abandoned beaver dam about a half hour from the
portage, this is high enough to reguire a couple of good pushes but should not
require an exit and Lift over. The next hour and a half is a nice gentle, and mostly
straight, passage to and just beyond Little Butt Lake. Just after Little Butt lake
there are two Lift Overs for active Beaver Dams (watch for leaches), then the Tim
becomes quite narrow again. The Tim has several annoyingly placed deadheads,
most of which are quite surprising being covered with floating grass, there is also
many grassy areas which require more poling than paddling. This is an old
meandering river more prone to North/South travel than the depicted East/West on
the map, expect to spend lots of time traveling short distances.
Lake travel: Novice
Tim Lake: A large Island to navigate around, and mostly East/West travel Leads to
the middle Eastern outlet. Although no passage is obvious there is a chanel along
the Northern side of this Arrowhead and Lily filled outlet. Between this outlet and
the portage are deadhead filled turns and a wide unamed pond. There is survey
tape tied at spots in the pond.
Rosebary Lake: A nice beach along the north shore and a smaller beach along the
southern shore make this a nice family destination. Fairly consistent Moose
appearances in the shallow southern bay leading to Longbow.
Longbow Lake: A very long narrow East/West lake, a nice easy paddle in low winds
leading to an apparently abandoned Beaver pond at the East end. The broken dam
and amount of water already drained from this pond led to our cutting short our
planned trip through Bog pond to Sittingman Lake.
Portages: Easy
One portage from Tim River to Tim River around dam. Steep steps down to Tim
River.
Remoteness: Novice
It was a 5 hour trip to Rosebury Lake on the way in, but only 5.5 hour out including
a lunch break at the portage from Longbow Lake. During the entire long weekend
we only encountered two groups of paddlers (until we left on the monday when we
came across 4 groups coming into the lake system).