http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Canada , Ontario , Atikokan en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:09:31 BST Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:09:31 BST I'm heading back to civilization in an hour It's about 1015 and we are heading back to our pickup point at 11001130 or so. We have a 100 pickup scheduled and as much as I have enjoyed this trip I can't wait to get back. The only thing I'm not looking forward to is the last portage back up to the parking lot from Pickerel Lake. It's amazing how much I think I've grown in during this trip. I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/Quetico-Provincial-Park/blog-205006.html Woke up today in a whirlwind and only had time to down a cold cup of instant coffee before we were on the lake trying to beat the rain which we didn't and the wind which we didn't as we made our way back to the Quetico Park entrance. Yep we're on our way back home. In the rain. The rain did eventually ease up right around the time that we were shooting some rapids which was real thrilling a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/Quetico-Provincial-Park/blog-204990.html We took a day trip to Chatterton Falls today from our campsite at Blueberry Island. I won't lie the Falls were a little disappointing. I guess I have in it my head that waterfalls or something described as falls are a bit more intense. Chatterton Falls are pretty awesome just in a less obvious ways. They were rushing and very beautiful but you had to walk a way in order to see the whole falls. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/Quetico-Provincial-Park/blog-204974.html Oh My GoshThere were killer flies today... swarms over every part of everywhere we went and every part of our body. There were so many of these little biting flies I was close to tears several times during the day. It felt like an epidemic an apocolypse almost. At times it felt like a scifi movie where something so trivial and harmless in the everyday sense as flies could be so life threate http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/Quetico-Provincial-Park/blog-204968.html There are some things in life where the harder something is the better you feel about it in the end. It's the feeling of accomplishment the rush of trying something new or knowing that you went outside your comfort zone that does it for you. After finishing a rocky mileplus long portage twice overonce with an 80pound pack and then my own personal packI coudn't help but feel very good abo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/Quetico-Provincial-Park/blog-204940.html Wow we covered a lot of ground... err... water today. That of course means... we're in Quetico It's just about as I expected it would be minus a few things here and therethe first being the actual distance we travel and the second being the actual length of time it takes to travel said distance. Those minutiae aside it's not half bad. The worst thing if anything was the 530 wakeup call and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/Quetico-Provincial-Park/blog-191853.html You know I brought the last four Harry Potter books thinking that out of the minimum 28 hours I'd be on the road I could read them... but this place is too fascinating that it's probably one of the only things that could distract me from getting to the seventh book really I've been averaging a book a day in hopes of reading them all through the seventh. We spent most of all day driving on a s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Atikokan/blog-191849.html