Our Camping Trip up North (pic heavy)

So Aug 1 My Best and long time friend Tim, my son and myself headed to Goose Falls for our trip. Goose Falls is approx 100 km's North west of Sturgeon Falls. We have been going there for about 4 years now. We haven't done any real fishing up there but have been doing some exploring. Next year we will bring up the ATV's so we can explore farther in.

We camped at Goose Falls above the Falls for 2 nights. We spent most of Saturday swimming and then Sunday morning it rained until around noon. We did check out some new roads we found but each time we came to either a dead end or it was not easily passable. Next year we will have the ATV's.

After Goose Falls we headed South West over to Espanola for Moose Lake. We camp on a small beautiful island there. This time we new where the abandoned Gold Mine shaft was and we wanted to check it out. There are two shafts one on the Main Land on one on a island we found both and we also found a eeny teeny speck of Gold, yup going to retire now I think it is worth 10 cents :). We confirmed it was Gold when we got back.

We also spent some time climbing the La Cloche Mountains and did some fishing up at West Quartzite Lake.


This is the long house tent.

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Trying out some of the functions on my camera. I have twins now. :)

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Panoramic

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Someone watching from above. :)

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My son playing in the river. I have no idea why he is wearing boots in the river.

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Taking a rest.

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Espanola

We camped with this little crittle living on the island. We suspect since he was so tamed that he has been there all year and is use to people.

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The Long House all set up.

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The Gold operation. I love finding these pieces of history.
We figure this was for maybe a smelter not sure


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The smoke stack there was also another section about 20 ft long.

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We think this might be the remains of a Ball Mill?

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One of the test pits.

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Watch your step.

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Oh yeah our specks of gold.

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My son with a nice smallie at West Quartzite. He just got that rod for his Birthday from his Grandfather (We lost the old one the last trip out.)

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A nice view from the La Cloche Mountains.

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Great Pics and nice to see the young fella out with you. He'll have memories forever of when he and his dad went fishing n camping! :goodstuff: I know I do! Lost my father when I was 10 so seeing stuff like this brings fond memories!

Great Pics GW....nice to see you young guys still know how to camp :)

Wonder how deep that shaft is! very cool pics!

Interesting area. I enjoyed the pics as well and looks like you had a great time. This is a great time of year to be out without all the bugs.

Wonderful looking trip, I hope to do more of that this fall. Beautiful area and pictures.

La Cloche and The Spanish , two great old memories....The Sauble was nice too..

Looks like a great trip GW, Thanks for sharing with us.

Nice trip

The shafts are suppose to be 150 meters, but they were filled with water. We told my son if he held his breath we could lower him into it, but yeah he didn't want to do that. We were cracking open chunks of Quartz and had a few other samples that looked promising but someone forgot what they did with them. ;)

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Wonder how deep that shaft is! very cool pics!

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Can't imagine the stuff you'd find at the bottom from over the years.

Nice thanks for sharing.

The mine is actually called the Bob Tough Mine. It ran I think for 3 years in the 1930's.

We thought of draining it, but I don't think we are allowed technically as there might be an active claim on it. If there isn't a claim on it my buddy wants to file one for fun since he has his prospectors license.

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Can't imagine the stuff you'd find at the bottom from over the years.

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Great pics GW. Wish I had more time and opportunity for these.

Looks like a great trip!

beauty pics. looks like a great time!

Looks like a great trip GW.

Really cool pictures. Very interesting area. I especially like the tree growing around that sign. I wonder how many years it would take for that to happen?

Great pics looks like an amazing trip buddy

Hope you left a pile of kindling and firewood for the next campers to use.....

Very nice! i cant wait to get out there and explore with the kids.

Probably the first time that we didn't as we didn't have any fires at all this year on the island. :(

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Hope you left a pile of kindling and firewood for the next campers to use.....

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Good to hear you had a good time - thanks for the pictures - it is always nice to go exploring in the wilderness - never know what you will find - take care

Great report and photos, GW!

looks like an awesome trip! love small little family camping trips to places like these