Wilderness Caching Series - Cooper Falls Traditional Cache
Wilderness Caching Series - Cooper Falls
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***PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS CACHE UNLESS YOU ARE AN EXPERIENCED
CANOEIST AND WILDERNESS TRIPPER***
The first in a series of rugged canoe tripping adventures.
This cache requires much stamina and wilderness tripping experience
but the scenery is well worth it.I dragged my father down the
Shawmere River in June of 2006. This is an area we used to visit
often but never done the river.
There are 3 ways to get to this cache:
1. Fly in with Ivanhoe
Air to Lemoine Lake, stay at one of their cottages and canoe
upstream. There will be a couple of portages required but round
trip back to Lemoine can be done in a day
2. Take the VIA train
from Foleyet, or Gogama or even Sudbury, to Shawmere. They will let
you off at the bridge. You will then have 29 km of river and lake
travel (with a half-dozen portages) to get to Cooper Falls. We made
it from Cooper Falls to the tracks in one very long day going
downstream. Plan to camp overnight on Lemoine Lake where the river
flows to Shawmere Lake.
3. You can canoe from Shawmere River where it meets Hwy 101 (check
out
another cache here too) and follow it to the tracks or all the
way back to Foleyet. This is the trip we did to hide the cache. It
takes 6 days to complete and it is very difficult with class 2 and
class 3 rapids, blazing new portage trails, creating your own
campsites, and innumberable beaver dams, rock gardens, etc. This
trip should be done in high water. We did it in mid June and the
water was too low.
The adventure you will experience on this cache will be
life-changing. We saw moose only 30 yards from our tent one
morning.
The contents of the cache include wilderness survival items such
as:
Compass
Candle
Poncho
Matches
and of course Toilet Paper
The difficulty of this cache is getting there. It is not meant to
be difficult to find. Refer to the attached pictures for clues.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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