Mythic Lion Man

After a recent hike one of my coworkers asked about going on another winter hike. I didn't have any more winter geocaches on my list so I suggested a trip to Killarney. Geocache or not, I like to have a destination so I decided to combine two adventures in Killarney park that have intrigued me for some time. We were going to try to make it to Teardrop Lake via the decommissioned portage from George Lake to OSA Lake. I've done some ridge running on the north shore of OSA Lake in the past in pursuit of a Geocache. It's a spectacular location and I've returned twice to enjoy the view, but I decided that the next time I returned to

The northern entrances to Algonquin Provincial Park are less accessible than those along the highway 60 corridor. This makes them a much longer drive from the densely populated areas of Southern Ontario, but it also decreases the number of people that are encountered on a trip through this part of the park. I wanted to plan a longer canoe trip than I've attempted in the past, and travel further than I had before, so the northern part of the park seemed like an ideal starting point. I decided to tear yet another page out of Kevin Callan's "A Paddler's Guide" series of books and attempt the Hogan Lake Loop leaving from the Brent access point. I added a couple of

I’ve wanted to attempt the Killarney Boundary Loop since I first read about it. In his guide book Kevin Callan calls it “the essence of Killarney” and “the ultimate Killarney trip”. He also warns that it’s an extremely difficult trip, not to be taken on by the novice. Perhaps I took his warning a little too seriously because I spent over five years slowly extending the length of my trips in Killarney before attempting the loop. But I finally got to where I thought I was ready for the longest and most difficult canoe trip that I’ve attempted. Our camping trip last year didn’t fell through due to an unfortunate intrusion of the realities of the outside world. This year I