Voyageur Route - Des Chenes Rapids Traditional Cache
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Voyageur Route - Des Chenes Rapids
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Des Chenes Rapid Lookout accessable via the Ottawa River Parkway. Parking nearby and paved paths along river. Be prepared as some parking areas are closed in the winter and access may have to be from residential area south of parkway.
“This is the oldest trans-Canada throughway, the canoe route by the Ottawa River, Lake Nipissing, Lake Superior and Lake Winnipeg and the Churchill River to Lake Athabaska and the Rockies. Past this point travelled many explorers, from Brule, Champlain and la Verendrye to Mackenzie, Thompson and Fraser. The Recollet and Jesuit missionaries went this way to and from Huronia. The fur traders, from the early coureurs des bois to the later brigades in big Montreal canoes paddling to and from the “pays d’en haut”, made this river their highway.”
NCC 1964
This cache is part of eight strung out in municipal parks located along twelve kilometers of the Ottawa River and follows a canoeing theme. The cache is accessable by canoe, Green Belt trails or by the Capital Bike Trail system ( during freeze up). Your put in for the canoe can be at the public boat launch at Dick Bell Park up river or down river above the Little Chaudiere Rapids. You may have to portage the Remic Rapids so the Kitchissippi Lookout would be the calmest water. You definitely will have to portage the Des Chenes Rapids.
The cache is a micro in a 'small' container....
The river is notorious for Poison Ivy but all of these caches are selected to avoid the nasty stuff. The bike path is quite close and always busy so stealth is required specially on nice days as muggles are everywhere. High water in spring may be an issue at this location but you should be OK. There is a park bench nearby to wait out loitering muggles. My GPS has averaging and a 145 point WGS84 UTM coordinate I determined was 18T 439048 E 5025430 N; FYI.
If you have enjoyed this series then you should visit Kenmore's 'In the Footsteps of the Voyageurs' GCHRG1 for a real history lesson. You can walk in their moose hides on the actual portage, smell the beaver castors and almost taste the dried berries and pemmican!
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