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Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about camping
on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to catch for my
Dad to camp there...was there??

Jeff




"Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> Well, for my 2 cents
>
> Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
> reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
> potentially
> missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
> favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
> the
> road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
> act
> up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made it.
>
> I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find he
> was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
> sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
>
> Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
> that.
>
> The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
> area
> and anti-coon food storage area.
>
> The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
> blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
>
> As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
> of
> rain...was enjoyable for sure.
>
> I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
> Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great stay
> as well.
>
> Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10 days
> sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
>
> I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
> wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
>
> Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror being
> smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
> Boler..(Big
> Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
> Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
> got
> in okay.
>
> The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
> tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
> were
> fine.
>
> Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
> something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
> went over very well with Jo this trip.
>
> Trip was a great success...
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
>> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
>> out!
>>
>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>
>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
>> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>
>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>> can get through.
>>
>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>
>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>>
>> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>
>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>> sure.
>>
>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>> there, soo....
>>
>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
>> LOL!
>>
>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>>
>> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>>
>> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>>
>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>
>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>>
>> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>> guns just don't mix....
>>
>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>> wanted.
>>
>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>> photo on another trip....
>>
>> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>
>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>
>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>> photos of him?
>>
>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>> sit...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Mike Romain wrote:
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
>> > Labor
>> > Day, September 5th.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
>

4X4PLAY

Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about camping
on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to catch for my
Dad to camp there...was there??

Jeff




"Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> Well, for my 2 cents
>
> Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
> reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
> potentially
> missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
> favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
> the
> road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
> act
> up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made it.
>
> I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find he
> was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
> sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
>
> Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
> that.
>
> The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
> area
> and anti-coon food storage area.
>
> The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
> blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
>
> As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
> of
> rain...was enjoyable for sure.
>
> I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
> Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great stay
> as well.
>
> Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10 days
> sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
>
> I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
> wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
>
> Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror being
> smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
> Boler..(Big
> Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
> Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
> got
> in okay.
>
> The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
> tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
> were
> fine.
>
> Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
> something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
> went over very well with Jo this trip.
>
> Trip was a great success...
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
>> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
>> out!
>>
>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>
>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
>> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>
>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>> can get through.
>>
>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>
>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>>
>> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>
>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>> sure.
>>
>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>> there, soo....
>>
>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
>> LOL!
>>
>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>>
>> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>>
>> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>>
>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>
>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>>
>> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>> guns just don't mix....
>>
>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>> wanted.
>>
>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>> photo on another trip....
>>
>> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>
>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>
>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>> photos of him?
>>
>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>> sit...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Mike Romain wrote:
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
>> > Labor
>> > Day, September 5th.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
>

4X4PLAY

Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about camping
on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to catch for my
Dad to camp there...was there??

Jeff




"Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> Well, for my 2 cents
>
> Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
> reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
> potentially
> missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
> favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
> the
> road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
> act
> up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made it.
>
> I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find he
> was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
> sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
>
> Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
> that.
>
> The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
> area
> and anti-coon food storage area.
>
> The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
> blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
>
> As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
> of
> rain...was enjoyable for sure.
>
> I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
> Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great stay
> as well.
>
> Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10 days
> sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
>
> I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
> wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
>
> Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror being
> smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
> Boler..(Big
> Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
> Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
> got
> in okay.
>
> The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
> tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
> were
> fine.
>
> Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
> something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
> went over very well with Jo this trip.
>
> Trip was a great success...
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
>> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
>> out!
>>
>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>
>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
>> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>
>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>> can get through.
>>
>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>
>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>>
>> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>
>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>> sure.
>>
>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>> there, soo....
>>
>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
>> LOL!
>>
>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>>
>> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>>
>> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>>
>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>
>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>>
>> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>> guns just don't mix....
>>
>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>> wanted.
>>
>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>> photo on another trip....
>>
>> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>
>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>
>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>> photos of him?
>>
>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>> sit...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Mike Romain wrote:
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
>> > Labor
>> > Day, September 5th.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
>

Mike Romain

Yes, there are Lake trout, a few Rainbow and Splake stocked into the
area lakes, but they are hard to catch. The trouble is keeping the Bass
off the line. The large mouth and small mouth Bass love worms and fight
ok, but trout taste way better....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

4X4PLAY wrote:
>
> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about camping
> on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to catch for my
> Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> > Well, for my 2 cents
> >
> > Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
> > reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
> > potentially
> > missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
> > favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
> > the
> > road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
> > act
> > up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made it.
> >
> > I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find he
> > was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
> > sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
> >
> > Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
> > that.
> >
> > The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
> > area
> > and anti-coon food storage area.
> >
> > The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
> > blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
> >
> > As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
> > of
> > rain...was enjoyable for sure.
> >
> > I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
> > Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great stay
> > as well.
> >
> > Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10 days
> > sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
> >
> > I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
> > wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
> >
> > Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror being
> > smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
> > Boler..(Big
> > Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
> > Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
> > got
> > in okay.
> >
> > The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
> > tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
> > were
> > fine.
> >
> > Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
> > something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
> > went over very well with Jo this trip.
> >
> > Trip was a great success...
> > "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> > news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
> >> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
> >> out!
> >>
> >> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
> >>
> >> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
> >> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
> >> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
> >> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
> >> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
> >>
> >> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
> >> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
> >> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
> >> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
> >> can get through.
> >>
> >> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
> >> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
> >> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
> >> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
> >> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
> >> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
> >>
> >> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
> >> there looking at the view and set up camp.
> >>
> >> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
> >> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
> >> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
> >> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
> >> he could be the 'first' across it.
> >>
> >> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
> >> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
> >> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
> >> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
> >> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
> >> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
> >> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
> >> sure.
> >>
> >> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
> >> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
> >> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
> >> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
> >> there, soo....
> >>
> >> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
> >> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
> >> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
> >> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
> >> LOL!
> >>
> >> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
> >> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
> >> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
> >>
> >> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
> >> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
> >> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
> >> so I said aww ok... ;-)
> >>
> >> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
> >> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
> >> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
> >> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
> >> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
> >> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
> >> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
> >> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
> >> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
> >> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
> >> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
> >> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
> >> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
> >>
> >> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
> >> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
> >>
> >> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
> >> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
> >> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
> >> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
> >> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
> >> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
> >>
> >> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
> >> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
> >> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
> >> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
> >> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
> >> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
> >> guns just don't mix....
> >>
> >> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
> >> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
> >> wanted.
> >>
> >> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
> >> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
> >> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
> >> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
> >> photo on another trip....
> >>
> >> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
> >> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
> >> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
> >> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
> >>
> >> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
> >>
> >> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
> >> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
> >> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
> >> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
> >> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
> >> photos of him?
> >>
> >> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
> >> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
> >> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
> >> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
> >> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
> >> sit...
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> Mike Romain wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Folks,
> >> >
> >> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
> >> > Labor
> >> > Day, September 5th.
> >> >
> >> > Mike
> >> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> >> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> >

Mike Romain

Yes, there are Lake trout, a few Rainbow and Splake stocked into the
area lakes, but they are hard to catch. The trouble is keeping the Bass
off the line. The large mouth and small mouth Bass love worms and fight
ok, but trout taste way better....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

4X4PLAY wrote:
>
> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about camping
> on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to catch for my
> Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> > Well, for my 2 cents
> >
> > Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
> > reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
> > potentially
> > missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
> > favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
> > the
> > road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
> > act
> > up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made it.
> >
> > I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find he
> > was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
> > sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
> >
> > Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
> > that.
> >
> > The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
> > area
> > and anti-coon food storage area.
> >
> > The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
> > blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
> >
> > As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
> > of
> > rain...was enjoyable for sure.
> >
> > I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
> > Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great stay
> > as well.
> >
> > Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10 days
> > sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
> >
> > I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
> > wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
> >
> > Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror being
> > smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
> > Boler..(Big
> > Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
> > Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
> > got
> > in okay.
> >
> > The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
> > tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
> > were
> > fine.
> >
> > Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
> > something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
> > went over very well with Jo this trip.
> >
> > Trip was a great success...
> > "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> > news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
> >> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
> >> out!
> >>
> >> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
> >>
> >> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
> >> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
> >> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
> >> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
> >> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
> >>
> >> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
> >> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
> >> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
> >> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
> >> can get through.
> >>
> >> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
> >> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
> >> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
> >> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
> >> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
> >> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
> >>
> >> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
> >> there looking at the view and set up camp.
> >>
> >> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
> >> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
> >> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
> >> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
> >> he could be the 'first' across it.
> >>
> >> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
> >> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
> >> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
> >> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
> >> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
> >> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
> >> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
> >> sure.
> >>
> >> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
> >> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
> >> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
> >> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
> >> there, soo....
> >>
> >> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
> >> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
> >> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
> >> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
> >> LOL!
> >>
> >> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
> >> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
> >> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
> >>
> >> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
> >> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
> >> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
> >> so I said aww ok... ;-)
> >>
> >> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
> >> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
> >> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
> >> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
> >> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
> >> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
> >> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
> >> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
> >> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
> >> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
> >> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
> >> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
> >> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
> >>
> >> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
> >> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
> >>
> >> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
> >> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
> >> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
> >> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
> >> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
> >> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
> >>
> >> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
> >> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
> >> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
> >> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
> >> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
> >> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
> >> guns just don't mix....
> >>
> >> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
> >> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
> >> wanted.
> >>
> >> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
> >> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
> >> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
> >> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
> >> photo on another trip....
> >>
> >> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
> >> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
> >> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
> >> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
> >>
> >> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
> >>
> >> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
> >> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
> >> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
> >> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
> >> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
> >> photos of him?
> >>
> >> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
> >> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
> >> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
> >> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
> >> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
> >> sit...
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> Mike Romain wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Folks,
> >> >
> >> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
> >> > Labor
> >> > Day, September 5th.
> >> >
> >> > Mike
> >> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> >> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> >

Mike Romain

Yes, there are Lake trout, a few Rainbow and Splake stocked into the
area lakes, but they are hard to catch. The trouble is keeping the Bass
off the line. The large mouth and small mouth Bass love worms and fight
ok, but trout taste way better....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

4X4PLAY wrote:
>
> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about camping
> on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to catch for my
> Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> > Well, for my 2 cents
> >
> > Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
> > reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
> > potentially
> > missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
> > favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
> > the
> > road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
> > act
> > up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made it.
> >
> > I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find he
> > was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
> > sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
> >
> > Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
> > that.
> >
> > The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
> > area
> > and anti-coon food storage area.
> >
> > The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
> > blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
> >
> > As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
> > of
> > rain...was enjoyable for sure.
> >
> > I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
> > Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great stay
> > as well.
> >
> > Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10 days
> > sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
> >
> > I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
> > wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
> >
> > Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror being
> > smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
> > Boler..(Big
> > Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
> > Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
> > got
> > in okay.
> >
> > The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
> > tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
> > were
> > fine.
> >
> > Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
> > something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
> > went over very well with Jo this trip.
> >
> > Trip was a great success...
> > "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> > news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
> >> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
> >> out!
> >>
> >> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
> >>
> >> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
> >> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
> >> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
> >> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
> >> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
> >>
> >> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
> >> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
> >> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
> >> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
> >> can get through.
> >>
> >> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
> >> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
> >> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
> >> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
> >> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
> >> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
> >>
> >> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
> >> there looking at the view and set up camp.
> >>
> >> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
> >> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
> >> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
> >> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
> >> he could be the 'first' across it.
> >>
> >> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
> >> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
> >> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
> >> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
> >> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
> >> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
> >> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
> >> sure.
> >>
> >> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
> >> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
> >> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
> >> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
> >> there, soo....
> >>
> >> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
> >> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
> >> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
> >> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
> >> LOL!
> >>
> >> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
> >> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
> >> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
> >>
> >> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
> >> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
> >> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
> >> so I said aww ok... ;-)
> >>
> >> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
> >> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
> >> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
> >> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
> >> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
> >> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
> >> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
> >> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
> >> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
> >> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
> >> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
> >> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
> >> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
> >>
> >> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
> >> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
> >>
> >> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
> >> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
> >> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
> >> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
> >> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
> >> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
> >>
> >> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
> >> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
> >> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
> >> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
> >> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
> >> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
> >> guns just don't mix....
> >>
> >> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
> >> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
> >> wanted.
> >>
> >> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
> >> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
> >> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
> >> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
> >> photo on another trip....
> >>
> >> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
> >> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
> >> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
> >> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
> >>
> >> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
> >>
> >> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
> >> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
> >> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
> >> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
> >> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
> >> photos of him?
> >>
> >> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
> >> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
> >> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
> >> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
> >> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
> >> sit...
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> Mike Romain wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Folks,
> >> >
> >> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
> >> > Labor
> >> > Day, September 5th.
> >> >
> >> > Mike
> >> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> >> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> >

Mike Romain

Yes, there are Lake trout, a few Rainbow and Splake stocked into the
area lakes, but they are hard to catch. The trouble is keeping the Bass
off the line. The large mouth and small mouth Bass love worms and fight
ok, but trout taste way better....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

4X4PLAY wrote:
>
> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about camping
> on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to catch for my
> Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> > Well, for my 2 cents
> >
> > Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
> > reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
> > potentially
> > missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
> > favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
> > the
> > road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
> > act
> > up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made it.
> >
> > I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find he
> > was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
> > sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
> >
> > Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
> > that.
> >
> > The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
> > area
> > and anti-coon food storage area.
> >
> > The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
> > blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
> >
> > As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
> > of
> > rain...was enjoyable for sure.
> >
> > I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
> > Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great stay
> > as well.
> >
> > Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10 days
> > sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
> >
> > I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
> > wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
> >
> > Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror being
> > smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
> > Boler..(Big
> > Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
> > Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
> > got
> > in okay.
> >
> > The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
> > tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
> > were
> > fine.
> >
> > Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
> > something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
> > went over very well with Jo this trip.
> >
> > Trip was a great success...
> > "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> > news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
> >> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
> >> out!
> >>
> >> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
> >>
> >> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
> >> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
> >> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
> >> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
> >> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
> >>
> >> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
> >> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
> >> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
> >> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
> >> can get through.
> >>
> >> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
> >> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
> >> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
> >> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
> >> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
> >> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
> >>
> >> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
> >> there looking at the view and set up camp.
> >>
> >> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
> >> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
> >> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
> >> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
> >> he could be the 'first' across it.
> >>
> >> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
> >> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
> >> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
> >> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
> >> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
> >> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
> >> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
> >> sure.
> >>
> >> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
> >> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
> >> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
> >> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
> >> there, soo....
> >>
> >> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
> >> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
> >> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
> >> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
> >> LOL!
> >>
> >> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
> >> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
> >> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
> >>
> >> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
> >> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
> >> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
> >> so I said aww ok... ;-)
> >>
> >> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
> >> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
> >> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
> >> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
> >> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
> >> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
> >> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
> >> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
> >> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
> >> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
> >> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
> >> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
> >> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
> >>
> >> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
> >> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
> >>
> >> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
> >> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
> >> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
> >> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
> >> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
> >> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
> >>
> >> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
> >> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
> >> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
> >> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
> >> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
> >> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
> >> guns just don't mix....
> >>
> >> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
> >> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
> >> wanted.
> >>
> >> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
> >> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
> >> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
> >> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
> >> photo on another trip....
> >>
> >> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
> >> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
> >> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
> >> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
> >>
> >> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
> >>
> >> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
> >> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
> >> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
> >> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
> >> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
> >> photos of him?
> >>
> >> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
> >> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
> >> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
> >> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
> >> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
> >> sit...
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> Mike Romain wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Folks,
> >> >
> >> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
> >> > Labor
> >> > Day, September 5th.
> >> >
> >> > Mike
> >> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> >> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> >

Snow

> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike mentioned
> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of great
> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a brief
> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>
> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> being violated.


If anyone "tagged" the GPS co-ordinates on their gps, they could still send
them into the RCMP or the OPP..

Sounds like they were drunk frenchmen out for a weekend of fun, I should see
if the wife's relatives were in that area..lol.

Snow

> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike mentioned
> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of great
> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a brief
> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>
> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> being violated.


If anyone "tagged" the GPS co-ordinates on their gps, they could still send
them into the RCMP or the OPP..

Sounds like they were drunk frenchmen out for a weekend of fun, I should see
if the wife's relatives were in that area..lol.

Snow

> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike mentioned
> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of great
> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a brief
> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>
> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> being violated.


If anyone "tagged" the GPS co-ordinates on their gps, they could still send
them into the RCMP or the OPP..

Sounds like they were drunk frenchmen out for a weekend of fun, I should see
if the wife's relatives were in that area..lol.