Quebec & Newfoundland Kayaking

[skifree_mike]

Hey boaters, I am planninga creeking / riverrunning trip through Quebexico and Newfoundland and was wondering if anyone knew of any TRs or rivers that i definitely shouldn't pass up.

Planning to go in early may when all the snow is melting and pumping up the flows

Im thinking the Rouge, hogsback falls, seven sisters..water like that.
Any ideas?

[Yeti]

Canadian Canoe Routes is your friend.
http://www.myccr.com/canoedb/browseroutes.htm

All sorts of trips in there, from daytrip creeking to summer-long northern expeditions.

[JerseyDave]

http://neguidebook.com/
Some VT boaters have been doing some exploratory paddling and multidays up, way up in Qc. To bring attention to the daming of some sick big water river runs...
http://riversenses.blogspot.com/.

[RootSkier]

There is some super high quality Newfy stoke at therangelife.com, also, Darin McQuoid (sp?) has a bunch of newfy stuff at darinm.blogspot.com

Please report back with pics. Good luck.

[Storm11]

LVM has done some segments recently on Quebec. Both were float plane trips (Petit Maketna (sp?) and the Romaine) but both looked sick. Might be worth looking into.

[skifree_mike]

thanks boys, ill give you the TR when i make it back alive. The crew is all down for multi day bushwacking, so we will see what we can dig up. google earth is my new best friend.

[donutlynx]

You're in Vancouver, and going all the way across the country to kayak?

Anyone else fail to see the logic in this?


Just kidding. Hope you have a blast out there, and find what you're looking for!

[itspukin]

Hey,

a buddy has started a great blog with an online guide, it has info on Quebec creeks. He is also a neuf, so contact him with any Rock questions you have:

http://www.liquidlore.com/

other alternatives include:

http://forum.quebeckayak.qc.ca/
http://www.boatwerks.net/boaterboard/
http://www.npmb.com/cms2/e107_plugins/forum/forum.php

Feel free to msg me if you have any questions, I've paddled in QC a bunch.

Dan

[itspukin]

Forgot to say in reply to your original post:

Hogsback only usually goes in late fall when they drain the lake (very occasionally it goes during winter and early spring during extreme rain/melt events).

Rouge will be a big volume river-run with massive surf and large-hole avoidance.

Seven Sisters section of the Rouge is only low enough in late summer/early fall.