I have the last two weeks in June open, and three of us want to do a
canoe trip. We'll be departing from central Maine, and we figure on 4
or 5 nights onriver. Including travel days, we have about 7 days
available. Two of us are advanced paddlers, the other is a novice, so
we'll do one tandem and one solo boat. We don't really want to
encounter other trips on-river, and we want to find something with some
runnable class II, with some occasional class IIIs thrown in for the
challenge. But it also has to be run enough that the shuttle route is
well marked, and so that are good camps on river.

So far, we are considering some Gaspe rivers; I've done the Bonaventure
several times, but the Cascapedia or others in that region seem
potential. We also considered some North Shore rivers; I've done the
Chimachuane and Godbout, but we're considering the Mistassini or
others.

Its been about 15 years since I've been to either Gaspe or the North
Shore, so my knowledge and memory are dated. Rivers might have changed
their popularity, roads developed or closed, and a host of other things
changed. So I could use some insights of what a good run might
be....currently we're leaning towards the Bonadventure or the
Cascapedia.

--riverman

riverman wrote:
We don't really want to
encounter other trips on-river,

Forget the Bonaventure then. In the past 20 years it has become
popular. Quoting from a dissatisfied on-line source: "There are dozens
of groups going in every day, driven up to the lake by the outfitters.
Solitude is out of the question, and the campsite races begin in
earnest every day around 3 in the p.m."

Scratch that one.

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