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Just returned from a few days at our daughter and s-i-l's cottage in the Bancroft area. Right now the colours there are brilliant. Anyone thinking of taking a trip to look at the colours should consider going immediately because things can't get much better.

How are the colours in other parts of the Province? Have things gotten close to their peak yet?

Jim

Changing for sure Jim, but we don't get many brilliant reds etc, due to not having any hardwoods;









Crappy cell phone pics, but you get the idea.

I'm driving through Cape Breton on Saturday to catch the ferry to NFLD. Should be a beautiful trip. Lots of hardwood on CB.

We make a yearly trip on Thanksgiving weekend through the Beaver Valley up to Meaford and Thornbury just to see the colors. Usually have a nice lunch and grab a bushel of apples while we're there.

I was driving in and around Orillia. The leaves are gorgeous. I should have stopped for a picture, but we live in amongst this, so we are lucky to see the colours every day.

These bright yellows are what I used to be accustomed to when I hunted moose every Fall. Now that I no longer do that I only see small patches here in southern Ontario. Your pictures bring back memories.

Super Cub I wish I could join you on one last moose hunt. Especially in Nfld. where I have never hunted.

Jim

Down here the trees don't seem to be able to get together on where they are in the color-change process. We were just wondering if the week of haze from the western fires disrupted the sunlight/length of day enough to cause some confusion on the part of some of them.

Thanks for those!! Just now the stiff North wind blew som yellow ash leaves all over.

Hey Jim .... NFLD is an awesome spot. Very high on my list of favourite places. I've been there three times thus far, work related. This will be the 1st hunt and it's fairly close for me from here. Only 6hrs to the ferry.

I wish you could come as well. As it turned out I will be going alone on this hunt as it was decided at very short notice and no one has extra cash this fall after the covid. Going hunting and shooting a moose is only the small part of the whole deal. Making memories with friends on a trip like this is what it's all about.

My brothers are at the moose camp just east of Longlac Ont. this week. I almost wish I was there with them instead but the travel restrictions would make me isolate for 14 days after returning home.

Paul

I used to hunt not far from there. Just south of Geraldton, off Goldfield Rd. A few moose have come out of that area.


We came up from Terrace Bay.

As an aside, moose hunting has been a topic. If you would, talk some about how you enjoy the meat? Cooking wise that is.

Wabigoon, I prefer my moose cut into quick-fry steaks. Slavyanka likes the ground burger,

Steve, I got this big fella on Wintering Lake, near Geraldton, in 2006.

Nice! We hunted north of Wintering Lake, but used to pass it on the way up from Terrace Bay. I would have to dig out my map, but we were about 3/4 of the way up from Terrace Bay to Geraldton. We used to head into town every three or four days. Stop at the Husky on Hwy 11, and shop in town. The idea for the story, Vegetables are People Too! in the 24 Hr CampFryer book came from a Restaurant - Caroline's - in Geraldton. It was a typical sparsely furnished, northern Ontario eatery, with a strange cook who used to call out to the waitress to pick up the food. "Hey, you gonna let this get cold! Come on, order up!"

The small game hunting was always top notch along there too. Grouse and rabbits were on the menu every other day.

All 5 trees in southern Manitoba are changing colour. Missing NW Ontario.

We never went into town unless we ran out of beer, which happened if we scored early. Back in those days you only needed 3 guys for a bull tag. Last year there the five of us had 2 adult tags as my son drew an individual cow tag. We only took a bull and calf. I let the cow walk. No sense being greedy.

Grouse hunting was always great. Met a guy who drove up from Kentucky every year to work his setters on grouse.

Always found a huge patch of shaggy manes where the camp used to dump their walleye carcasses. Made for some fine soup every year, along with grouse breast.

It seems this has been a very popular area in which to hunt. Our gang hunted for many years out of Nakina where we flew into a variety of lakes north of there. Prior to that we hunted for a bunch of years when we hunted out of Armstrong, again flying north into many different camps. We were quite successful in both areas.

Super Cub I would love to join you on your Nfld. hunt. My problem is no longer money but physical ability to hold up the work on my end of the hunt. I wish you success on your hunt. I am sure it will be. Both my wife and I travelled there a few years ago and we both had a fabulous time. Great people and certainly different from come from beyond.

Jim

Our camp is on the old RR line that goes west from Hearst between Pagwa and Grant.

I love that area. It's been a long time since I've been there. Maybe 2021 with the brothers.

Here on the Kenai we lost nearly all our leaves in 2 days earlier this week due to wind. 40 years ago, this used to occure the first week of September, usually.

North of the Alaska Range, the leaves were mostly gone when we came back from our remote cabin on the 21st.

Earlier tho, it was gorgeous. Leaves in the river make for interesting times with a jet unit.....

[quote=wabigoon]As an aside, moose hunting has been a topic. If you would, talk some about how you enjoy the meat? Cooking wise that is.[/quote
Sorry Wabigoon I must have somehow missed this post earlier. The only thing I can say about the quality of moose is you have to see to appreciate 4 or 5 guys sit down and demolish the entire backstraps out of a moose in one sitting. I've never tried to weigh a set of backstraps but it is considerable. I know it is enough to send 5 guys away from the table stuffed to the gills. When we have this we don't even have a side dish of walleye.

Jim