Algonquin Provincial Park

Scout Trip

Troop 126 - Leicester, MA

Welcome to the Algonquin Park Home Page for Leicester Boy Scout Troop 126. As you probably have read in the Leicester Journal articles, Troop 126 took a one-week wilderness canoe trip to APP, Ontario Canada. The trip was from August 7-17, 1996. Participants were....

Scout Master 		Dana Hartness
Asst. Scout Masters 	Ted Bauer and Fred Looft
Parents 		Kevin Howe and Betsy Cormier,
and scouts		Joshua Hartness
			Tim Menard
			Andy Bauer
			Nick Aja
			Matt Looft
			Matt Howe
			Nate Howe

Below are a few pictures of our trip and a map of where we went.

If you want more information on this trip or want to plan one yourself, feel free to contact me (Fred Looft) through email at fjlooft@ee.wpi.edu .

7am Wednesday morning, immediately after breakfast.
We are getting ready to leave for out trip.

Explore our trip, but please be patient - the pictures may take a minute to load.

Portion of Canoe Map for Algonquin Provincial Park

Note the narrows between White Trout and Big Trout Lakes. We camped at one point at the tip of the peninsula at the end of the narrows opening into Big Trout. Grassy Bay, where the beaver lodges were, is show to the left of the map. Also shown is a small portion of the Petawawa River coming into the top of Grassy Bay from the left.

The Otterslides (lake and river) were hard to canoe because the river was narrow and meandered back and forth. Burnt Island Lake was beautiful. The Hartness group spent two days exploring the lake. Portages (in red) are marked with their lengths in meters.