Route Rec: Quetico's French Lake to Beaverhouse

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We heard you when you requested guidance planning routes in our Twitter poll, so episode six covers a favorite of mine: French Lake to Beaverhouse lake in Quetico Provincial Park. For more about visiting the Quetico, its history and personality, check out our third episode. The route in a nutshell: 7 day trip 6 lakes 50 mi or 80 km 3 portages 260 rods - the longest portage, between Pickerel and McAlpine. Skinny lakes and large lakes, winding narrows and shallow creek, long, low portage and short steep portage, and plenty of beautiful campsites. Join us for A Look Back, our break segment describing the pictographs that can be found in canoe country and along this route in Quetico Lake. What are pictographs? Pictographs are pictures or symbols that signify a word. In this backcountry, the pictographs have a red ochre hue and depict canoe travelers, moose, bear, birds, fish, and more of the common surroundings.