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| harleyboater |
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  Registered Member #2752 Joined: Tue Sep 13 2005, 07:11 amPosts: 11 | Has anyone done the Ashuapmushuan River, north of Lac St. Jean in Quebec? I'm thinking of doing it this summer with a couple friends in solo open canoes. I'm planning about ten days. I have information from SEPAQ, and will get maps from them as well. Is it worth the $7.50 a day? Or are there easily accessible comparable rivers anyone might recommend? I'd like to avoid competing for campsites, but I don't want to bear the expense of flying in or having unmanageable shuttles. I'd like some whitewater (class 2 to 3), and portages aren't a problem. I'm in Wiscasset, Maine. Thanks for any ideas or suggestions! Paul Arthur 207-882-9789 parthur©chewonki.org  | ||
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| Matt H |
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   Registered Member #11 Joined: Thu Mar 18 2004, 09:15 amPosts: 824 | Ashuapmushuan! I think Marshall Moore might know a bit about that one. Or if not, you can try myccr.com and do a search in the Quebec canoe routes forum. You'll get a dozen threads on the subject. So you work at Chewonki? Nice place, I helped out there last Fall. We might be passing through first week in July. Maybe we'll duck into the gulch and toss jellyfish at the tyrolian traversers.  big boat, tiny car | ||
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| harleyboater |
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| Registered Member #2752 Joined: Tue Sep 13 2005, 07:11 amPosts: 11 | Thanks, Matt! | ||
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| Gnash Walker |
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  Registered Member #460 Joined: Sat Jul 31 2004, 05:43 pmPosts: 287 | What's the $7.50 a day about, anyway? You have to pay someone so you can paddle down the river? Okay, maybe it's peanuts, but it still rankles me. I know you have to pay in Northern Maine to paddle too, but that irks me too. Reach out and touch a rock Reach out and remove a tire | ||
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| DougB |
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 Registered Member #3294 Joined: Mon Mar 13 2006, 01:33 pmPosts: 7 | The river runs through a nature preserve. The $7.50 goes towards them. It's a small price to pay. The reserve offers a very reasonable shuttle, and secure vehicle parking. The "popular" stretch of this river is about 130 km long and makes a good 6 or 7 day paddle. In solo boats you could stretch that out to 7 or 8. There are other options for access points further upstream to make for a 10 day paddle. You could also start on the river du chef. | ||
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| harleyboater |
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| Registered Member #2752 Joined: Tue Sep 13 2005, 07:11 amPosts: 11 | Doug - thanks very much for the River du Chef suggestion. I've been looking for a way to stretch it out a bit. Though I prefer to paddle for free, I agree that the $7.50 goes to a worthwhile use. Thanks! Paul | ||
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| MarshallM |
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  Registered Member #167 Joined: Tue Jul 20 2004, 04:35 amPosts: 100 | I see where I was mentioned by Matt in an earlier post, but unfortunately have not paddled the Ashuapmushuan. However, back in the mid-80s, I paddled a river not far to the east named the Mistassini, that also drains into Lac St. Jean in Quebec from the north. At the time, the Mistassini was a much less traveled river, and it turned out to be an excellent canoe trip of about 125 miles from our put-in on Lac Marielle. The Mistassini trip was one of those rivers where we had virtually no information on the river, other than being told it was "a good trip". Basically, all that we knew from studying topo maps was that the river dropped a little over 650 feet in the first 55 miles and that there was a very large set of falls at about the 40 mile mark. Needless to say, we some river scouting on that trip. At any rate, I'm not very useful to you. However, one thing that I have read about the Ashuapamushuan, in my research, is that it can also accessed about 60 miles north of Chibougamou by ascending the Metawishish R. marshall | ||
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