Adventures in the outdoors
Last year my friend Peter and I completed a section of The Meanest Link from Opeongo to Oxtongue. Almost a year later were back to complete the Brent to Opeongo section which covers 80km with 16km of that being portages – a total of 26! Our plan was to complete the trip in two days and one night.
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Over Thanksgiving weekend we had plans to go to the Muskoka’s to hike some trails and visit Huntsville. Our original plan was to spend the entire weekend in the area, hiking multiple trails and catching the last of the fall colors. However, I had just recently twisted my ankle and I was not able to walk for long distances, so hiking multiple trails was not going to happen. Since we still wanted to do something over the weekend, we decided to cancel our hotel and to just go for a day trip to the area to walk an easy trail at Limberlost and then visit downtown Huntsville.
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Would you travel around Algonquin Park covering about 420 km just to get your name on a wall? I know I would. So when my friend Peter messaged me about completing a section of a trip called the “Meanest Link” I was all in. The section we would attempt to complete was a total distance of 102.2 km that went from Lake Opeongo to Oxtongue Lake connecting the two Algonquin Outfitter stores at each location.
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Plan B… that’s where we left off right? Well as you read in part 1, plan A was to paddle and portage to the falls, but after realizing that it would take about 6 hours to complete the round trip we made a plan B. Hayden was very pleased to know there was a plan B which would mean us paddling back to the car – load it for the drive – and drive to the falls access trail. To be honest, I was happy that was the decision we went with for a couple of reasons…
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