Killarney Prov. Park
The park was quite quiet on this weekend. There were a few large groups of
people (parties of 2 to 7 canoes) but we never actually saw anyone on the lakes
the same times were were paddling.
The weather was cool to warm and calm to windy-as-hell. The bugs were light to
clouds of them - primarily blackflies and misquitoes at night. Unfortunately the
day that we climbed Silver Peak it was hazy. All other days were clear.
Luckily for us - on the really windy days we had a tail wind - so much so that at
times we didn't dare paddle on the water as the wind and white caps were tossing
us around.
On the first partial day of this trip we entered at Bell Lake, paddled to David lake.
The next day we climbed Silver Peak (from an elevation of 228m to 539m), packed camp
and traveled towards Balsam Lake. The next day we paddled thru Balsam Lake, thru
Three Mile Lake and back to Bell Lake and took the portage into Johnnie Lake, where
we stayed for the 3rd night. Lastly, we paddled around Johnnie Lake, climbed one
of the cliffs and returned to the Bell Lake access. Then we did a short trip down
to the main park visitors center, toured the front-country campground (they have
2 long beaches with excellent frontage onto beautiful cliffs and rocks and trees.
Silver Peak
This view is one of the minor rocky peaks on the way towards the Silver peak climb
(around site H34)
These views are from the top of Silver Peak. It was a hazy day - but the pollution
stacks of Sudbury were visable in the distance.
Silver Peak isn't really one peak. There are more like 3 broad peaks that you can
walk around to. It was nice and windy up top - solving the biting insect problem
for us (temporarily).
Granite Ridge Trail
These pictures are taken from the short Granite Ridge Trail hike near the visitor
center. This hike doesn't take long but does have some nice views.
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