Northern Ontario Whitewater Canoeing: West Montreal River
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- The West Montreal river beings near the village of Shining Tree in Northeastern Ontario. Paddlers can travel for several days downstream to the Montreal River proper, traversing the northeastern edge of Temagami.
For our whitewater day trip, we paddled 23km of the middle section from Michiwakenda to Houston Lake. At mid-May flows, all of the rapids on this stretch can be run by skilled paddlers. Most are class two with the odd class one and a single challenging technical class 3. Portage trails are available to bypass the major sets if required.
This video gives the paddler a POV run of all the major sets encountered on this stretch of river.
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Enjoying your videos ! That's my old stomping grounds. I remember Hwy. 560 back in the 70s
Alot has changed. Fished Bigfour and Sams. Also left a comment on your Nursery Grassy trip awhile ago Very nice area!
I live in Westree!
As a northern Michigander, I love these videos! Please please please do a video on the essentials of canoe paddling, my girlfriend and I are self taught and I known the proof is in the pudding of the skill level of you two; real world experience that’s reliable!
Hey thanks! What type of essentials? Flat water? Open water, etc? Lot's of different tips and skills. Could maybe work it into a future video. Thanks for watching!
Explore The Backcountry I’d say class III canoeist skills would be good for the average rivers in the northern regions! Strokes such as the j stoke, pitch stroke, pry and draw stroke etc; an average list of the strokes you guys would use on a river that ranges from class 1-3 rapids at moderate speeds!!
Great trip guys! Thanks for sharing!
Great team work! Looked like a lot of fun! Cheers
Very exciting white water canoeing.
We love your videos. Keep up the great work! 👍
Awesome guys thanks 👍🇨🇦
Great video thanks
Great video guys! Looks like a fun river
Ohh yeah! Thanks for watching fellas!
You lost me a t the first Bro. Awesome!
Cool video , I use to stay at Houston lake camp every year and we would run up to big 4 to fish.
Wicked!! I only fished up on Shining Tree and Duncan before. Pretty awesome area. Big 4 any good?
So good!
Thanks Man!
Holy heck, bud. That was awesome! Incredible shots! Whenever I have filmed myself in big whitewater it comes out looking like the tiniest swift. You've really got the right angles to put the real experience into the video. Well done.
Super sick runs, great lines and footage .
Thank you again for taking the time to share your adventures 😊
Thanks for watching!!
Having a warm place in my heart I was thinking of the more westerly Montreal River that flows into Lake Superior 70 miles north of the Sault.
I've often wanted to paddle that river! Looked at it from Chapleau area as a possibility. Looks amazing!
Great runs! Nice padding teamwork😃
Good Times Brad & Leah... another one for the To-Do list
Great river Dennis! Little tamer later in the season, but the scenery is top notch!
Awesome🥰
Its always so funny to see how amped up I get in some of these shots lmfao. Good times
Hahaha, the full send face!
it's invigorating))
Wow where did u get that map I've been trying to do the loop big four through west montreal and into the big lake witch would bring me back to the start via a little road to the main big four landing but can't find the map that shows the rapids and Portage awesome vids by the way love ur channel
Can u send me the link to get the map please
Hi, Brad. I didn’t catch the month, is this a May trip? My daughter and I are doing the Larder this May thanks to your video. Cheers, Christopher
Being from the west island of Montreal, this title had me totally confused for a couple seconds.
Ha, there's quite a few Montreal Rivers in Ontario. Even not being from Montreal it can get confusing! lol
I'm from Texas and paddle in warm weather mostly. Started watching your videos as I'm heading to Upstate NY for the summer heading back when snow comes. So I will be paddling in colder waters. What gear are you wearing... looks light and comfortable? My kayak vest is fine with a bib but not in my canoe :(
We are wearing Level 6 Drysuits. My PFD is a Salus Proto. Really nice fit and feel!
how would this compare to the Opeongo river in Algonquin is this the better day trip?
I haven't paddled the lower stretch, but I hear it's a wild ride. We had actually planned on it 2 years back. Based off the map and what I've seen online, Opeongo at high flows is more pushy with lengthy sets. West Montreal is more pool and drop short sets. The next 10km of the WM we didn't run apparently has some bigger sets. Not sure how runnable they are in an open boat though. I would say Lower Opeongo > West Montreal in terms of whitewater though.
Brad, what brand of canoe did you use?
The one we're usuing (green) is a Nova Craft Moisie in TuffStuff Expedition layup.
TOSTITOS!
Haha, I said Golden, Toasted Oats. Sheree heard it as Tostitos and its suck ever since 🤣🤣