Voyageur Route - Little Chaudiere Rapids Traditional Geocache
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Voyageur Route - Little Chaudiere Rapids
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DURING SPRING RUN OFF USE CAUTION AS CURRENT IS INCREASED AND SHORELINE IS STEEP. Access via Ottawa River Parkway to Remic Rapids Lookout parking area. Winter parking access may be limited to 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 along twelve kilometers of municipal parks located beside 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 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 further up river.
The cache is a small Lock n Lock containing a small biner with TB, spring toggle, rescue whistle, bungie cord, Silva ball compass and log with pencil. The river is notorious for Poison Ivy but all these caches are selected to avoid the nasty stuff. There is ample parking at the Remic rapid Lookout but on nice days it can be full. This is a busy area full of cyclists, roller bladers, runners and strollers so stealth will be required as you will be quite visible at GZ. Please try to replace the cache as you found it. I have averaging on my GPS and the 100 point WGS84 UTM coordinates were 18T 442221 E 5028915 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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