Ranger Lake Loop - A Tough Canoe Trip - 10 Days in the Wilderness, Part 1
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- Let's go on a tough canoe trip in the northern Ontario wilderness. We are exploring the Ranger Lake Loop for 10 Days. The Ranger Lake Loop is a tough canoe trip with upstream travel and unmaintained portages. This route passes through two non-operating provincial parks, Aubinadong-Nushatogaini Rivers and Algoma Headwaters. This is a lost canoe route that very few people travel.
In this video we paddle from Ranger Lake to Megisan Lake over the course of 6 days. We were lucky to have great weather and good fishing. It felt amazing to get out on a longer canoe trip in a remote part of Ontario with my Uncle Doug.
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Nicely captured Alec. Thanks for not highlighting that you carried most of the gear across ALL of the portages while your uncle tried to keep up. - Uncle Doug
😄You carried half the gear on every portage. I may have just carried the canoe every time. Thanks for joining me on the trip!
Well done, thanks for taking us along!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
Back in my day there was no GOPRO to record a trip like this, you just brought your 35mm camera. And while watching your video it brought back memories of the days when i did canoe trips. And i did a lot of them in the Algoma Area. And i was glad to see on one of your portages you did have a spare paddle :) Thanks for the post of Ranger Lake Canoe trip. It was a pleasure to watch!
There is something to be said of doing a trip with no camera at all, and having the memory just for yourself and the others who did the trip with you. At times, a camera does take away from the experience. On the other hand, it has been so great to be able to share detailed accounts of our adventures with family, friends and now all of you. Our grandparents especially enjoy the videos, and that alone makes it worth it. The Ranger Lake loop was great, I'm glad you enjoyed watching it. Thank you!
Wow, what a trip. I loved this. I identify with your uncle Doug. I'm 71 now and remember vividly trips in Algonquin Park, Ontario with my son. We always got 'conservation' licenses, just catch and release. I was more worried about attracting bears than eating fish.
"You promised me more fish than bugbites!". Love it. Every adventure starts when things stop going as planned.
Glad you enjoyed it. I always try to clean any fish before I get to camp but conservation is always a good idea. Dealing with adversity on backcountry trips definitely makes for good memories. Thanks for watching!
I can see why you like trips with Doug he is quite a guy. Thanks it’s nice to see you back on the water. 🇨🇦👍
I started canoe tripping with Doug and we definitely make a good paddling duo. It's great to spend time on the water together. Thanks Tom!
awesome trip
I really enjoyed myself on this one. Thanks for watching!
Great video Alec, really looking forward to the rest. I was here in 2017 but did it linear through the West Aub so I'm excited to see the Nush. Planning to return someday for that. Did you make any attempt to drive to Gong Lake or just committed to Ranger?
Hey Jon, I watched your videos from your time on the Ranger Lake Loop prior to my trip. It gave me some good insight on what to expect. We didn't bother trying to drive to Gong. We were in a minivan and didn't want to risk getting stuck like you did. The Nush was a bit rougher and shallower than the Aub but worth checking out. It's definitely a route I'd like to paddle again but maybe ice out next time. Thanks for watching!
@@AleconAdventures Ice out is a hard call up there, Especially if you are from somewhere else. Even with cell service. Check with Ranger Lake Lodge for ice conditions.
@@vincemacdonald823 Good advise, thanks Vince!
It is Ranger Lake Resort and not "Lodge" owned by Kevin and Joella, hope I spelt her name correctly lol.. just met her as we went and checked out the property I just bought next to the resort. Looking forward to a lot of time there for sure!
Great videos. You've inspired me to try that one day. Reminds me of the old Minnesota boundary waters area we used to camp out from Gunflint outfitters.
It was a pretty unique canoe route, I would definitely recommend it! Thanks for watching!
Really enjoyed the first part, looking forward to the second! Nice trip.
Glad you enjoyed it Robert. Thanks for watching!
Looks like an awesome adventure! Thanks for sharing!
It was an awesome trip. Thanks for watching!
Nice canoe country Alec. Impressive lift overs as well, those streams are jammed. I guess that is what you get with a lost canoe route. Keep looking for those trips and keep adventuring!
It was a beautiful area with lots of big white pines towering above the tree canopy. It was very tough going upstream on the Nushatogaini River and the lower than normal water levels didn't help. It's always great to explore new areas and routes. Thanks for watching!
I put that flagging tape up on mystery lake portage that's my trapline really enjoy your videos keep it up
Thanks for helping a fellow outdoorsman not get lost! What a beautiful area to have a trapline, very cool! Happy to hear you enjoy my videos, thanks for checking them out!
Good thing you guys went in the spring! We went late summer many moons ago and your water levels looked amazing compared to ours. 😄 Recognized some of the areas, cool. Down memory lane.
Oh wow! I was even wishing we could have gone earlier in the spring with higher water but we couldn't due to covid. That must have been tough in the late summer. I love seeing photos and videos of places I've been on trip to relive those good memories. Thanks for watching!
So cool to have a trip with your uncle. He seems to be in his element while tripping with you. Cheers.
Tripping with him is how I got started backcountry camping. We make a good paddling duo. Cheers!
@@AleconAdventures nice!
It was worth the wait...Nice adventure so far, looking forward to part 2!
Thanks Jay! The editing of pt 2 has just begun
Great trip so far, lots of Trout. I have that trip on my radar, chose to hit a different lost route next week for 6 days. Looking forward to the rest of this series. I think almost everyone has an uncle Doug....lol
That's exciting which route are you doing? Yup, my uncle Doug is the one who first took me backcountry canoe camping. The second half of the trip was just as good. Thanks for watching!
Wonderful Part 1! Tough is good, builds character. Guess you both had a good dose! hahahaha! Thanks for sharing, looking forward to the next part. :) :)
I always prefer challenging trips to lazy ones. The toughest part was going upstream on the Nushatogaini River but the beauty made up for it. Part 2 coming soon. Thanks for checking out the video Jacqueline!
Awesome start boys, well done
Thank you so much 😁Good things to come!
Great video. Looks like a solid trip!
The Ranger Lake loop is a great canoe route, was happy to be in the bush for 10 days. Thanks for watching!
New subscriber here. Great trip so far. Looking at doing this loop next spring. Looking 4ward to part 2.
Welcome to the channel. It was a rewarding route but there were some challenges on the rivers and lots of portaging. Thanks for watching!
Great video Alec
Thanks Stephen, appreciate it!
How deep were you trolling? I like 20-30 ft down for lakers in the summer. Sometimes i mark them deeper but i dont seem to catch them deeper.
Hey Jp, I was trolling deeper like you mentioned but on Megisan Lake we were catching Lake Trout at all depths. Doug was flat lining a spoon and catching them. Thanks for watching!
Great trip! What site do you use to get those topo maps, they look good. Thanks
Hey Matthew! I use GaiaGPS.com to get my topo maps and then usually print them off at Staples. Hope that helps, thanks for watching!
@@AleconAdventures Thanks!
@@AleconAdventures Thanks
First one here . Watching you instead of Joe Robinet
Why instead of? Watch them both
@@genesnyder2985 Following too many as it is. Joe being the longest and just getting bored . May well happen to the others too.
Thanks for the support Alex!
Where do you get these maps?
Looking at this loop for solo September 2022, what maps are you using? Can I ask why you decided on 10 days? I am looking at doing it in 5. Any advice?
It's a great loop! I used Gaia GPS to make my own maps. Ten days was a good amount of time moving every day with extra time for fishing and filming. I wouldn't want to do this loop in less than 8 days. If you started at Gong Lake (which involves driving rough logging roads) and paddled up the Aubinadong River all the way to Megisan Lake before returning the way you came, you could do that in 5 days. Travel on the Nushatogaini River is tough as this is the wildest and least maintained part of the route. Thanks for watching!
@@AleconAdventures I paddled the Aubinadong in 2018 with a buddy, we (he) brought a chainsaw and 5 L of gas (portaging this extra weight was not always welcome!) and cut/maintained many of the portages and freed up some of the log jams. It was a week of very hard work ending in a huge rainstorm where we could actually see the river level rising by the minute. So much so that there was a frog sitting on a log in out fire pit! We got some amazing video of the water coming off the valley walls and shooting 10 feet into the main stream. All night we could hear boulders and trees coming down the valley because of the erosion caused by the rain.
@@AleconAdventures so, 2 years after first wanting to do this trip, I am finally going this May. So far reports are going to be low water. Hoping to put in on Gong, guess depends on road conditions.