LaVerendrye - June 2004
Chochocouane River
There's something magical about paddling through an early morning mist.
Reflector oven cooking enhances any canoe trip but this is the last trip for my tired old homemade
oven which dumped most of our peach cobbler. "A poor carpenter blames his tools." Perhaps the
same can be said of campfire chefs.
Rikki-Lee and Hannah help Don with an easy portage at a class IV rapid.
Note the souse hole in background.
Wayne & "Big Red," at the end of a portage in the early morning
mist. This was Wayne's first canoe trip. With a little help from
Chris, a veteran paddler, he quickly learned to negotiate
class I & II rapids in both the bow & stern.
An easy class I
An easy class II
Sunset on the Chochocouane river at the end of another rainy day
Enjoying the view from an eddy
Add the Chochocouane to the list of adventures Wayne and I have been doing together since the mid 1950s.
Three junior paddlers discover that food tastes better when you're surrounded by white water.