4 Parks in 5 Days: Touring and Camping on the CBR125R

[jon_l]

Originally Posted by Nanabijou

Hey Jon - you can even stay here when you make the trip up. If you are interested in camping, based on my recent trips around Lake Superior, I would recommend the following for scenery, attractions, and amenities...... Agawa Bay Campground section of Lake Superior Provincial Park, Neys, Pukaskwa, and Sleeping Giant.

Mike

Thanks Nanabijou for the offer, and the camp suggestions. I'd like to get there one day.

[sendler]

It's interesting to see mostly evergreens where you are even though the elevation is low. I have mainly deciduous trees native to my area and only see pine forests where they have been planted.

[Nanabijou]

Originally Posted by sendler

It's interesting to see mostly evergreens where you are even though the elevation is low. I have mainly deciduous trees native to my area and only see pine forests where they have been planted.

Sendler - it seems that for the most part the forests around here are pretty mixed (coniferous/deciduous). Lot of deciduous trees in the first few photos. I suspect that the coniferous content is influenced by latitude. Seems that areas that have been logged tend to plant coniferous trees as well (more hardy). Perhaps someone with a forestry background might chime in!

Mike

[sendler]

Originally Posted by Nanabijou

Seems that areas that have been logged tend to plant coniferous trees as well (more hardy).

Pine forests in my area were planted as a make work project in the 1930's on state land. They are harvested for phone poles, paper pulp, and lumber and replanted with pole pines again. There is also a booming hardwood industry here with plenty of old growth native cherry maple, oak and ash ect. Maple syrup is also harvested here on a hobby or small farm scale.

[Earthscape]

Originally Posted by Nanabijou

Sendler - it seems that for the most part the forests around here are pretty mixed (coniferous/deciduous). Lot of deciduous trees in the first few photos. I suspect that the coniferous content is influenced by latitude. Seems that areas that have been logged tend to plant coniferous trees as well (more hardy). Perhaps someone with a forestry background might chime in!

Mike

No forestry background, but here is the explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_forest

[Nanabijou]

Thanks Earthscape,

I took a look too and discovered a more specific description of the boreal forests of Northern Ontario here:

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business...OD_091286.html

And the Great Lakes St. Lawrence forests that also occupy some of the sections of Northern Ontario I passed through on my trip here:

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business...OD_091288.html

Mike

[sendler]

Originally Posted by Earthscape

No forestry background, but here is the explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_forest

I love Wikipedia! and donate every year. What times we live in. Anyone can learn anything!

[Ride_Safe]

Just thought I would post these... sorry for waking up an old thread. This is from the other group of 125s who came from the complete opposite direction; Mike came from Thunder Bay, we came from the Toronto Area. So we rode to Tobermory and took the ferry onto Manitoulin Island, then rode north past Elliot lake, all the way up Highway 129 to the meet-up campsite. Our trip was about 1500km in total (750 each way). We left on a Friday afternoon and returned on Sunday night.

[Nanabijou]

Hey Travis,

Thanks for posting those photos from your part of the adventure with the other CBR125R riders. I had some great saddle time on the CBR doing that trip north of Lake Superior and on toward Chapleau and Wakami Lake Park. Your photos brought many of those memories back to mind.

Mike