She shouldn't have asked me, because I'm pretty sure I botched it. I'm starting a new thread in the hope of testimony better than what I have to offer, which is . . . .thesneakymonkey wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:34 pm
can you tell me a bit more about the bushwhack/beachwhacking?? Are we talking serious struggle or like a jaunt? I know it not an *actual* trail and having bushwhacked on the island before (accidently off trail on the beaver dam on the minong) I would like to avoid trudging through another butt deep mud pitnot that it wasn't fun the first time haha
. We will be hitting the Feldtmann soon !!!! Cant wait
The plot, starting from the dock at Siskiwit Bay:
walk along the beach--- it's very beautiful and pleasant --- until you need to cut inland to access the official trail's bridge across the Siskiwit River.
After crossing the river, cut back to the beach and follow it until it gets too rocky to walk easily, around where the shore turns east to make the south side of Senter Point.
Here you can pick up what I suppose is the original trail, a few steps inland. However, the recommendation (at least the one I got from Ranger Seth at Windigo early in June) is *not* to try to follow this trail all the way across the point, but to instead, at a judiciously chosen moment and in an apt direction, to leave it to bushwhack across the point to reach the beach on point's north side. (This is few hundred yards, at most, unless you meander A LOT.)
Once you reach the beach, it's easy beachwalking---most of the way on the route of the official trail--- to a signpost where the main shoreline of Siskitwit Bay turns east, and the trail heads north and inland.
Getting to and from the bridge over the river was easy: there are clear use trails both ways, and an obvious sign that you've overshot them---you reach the river! Crossing Senter Point was trickier for me. I managed to make it into the sort of trudge you wish to avoid, but I think I understand what I did wrong---I tried bushwhacking to the west of the original trail; I think I was supposed to bushwhack to its east. What I don't know is what conditions are like if that's what you do, or whether there's a clear place to leave the trail/recommended heading to follow when you do.
Here's an incredibly informative map. The purple is what I'm guessing you're supposed to do. The blue is what I'm guessing I did.
