/********************************************************************************** * * * This file contains the slide objects to be presented in the photo gallery and * * trip journal. The MakeCaptions1 function defined elsewhere will use the objects * * found in the "slides" (case sensitive) array. Each array element will contain a * * single Slide object which means it must have a reference ID, link, width, and * * height. The reference ID string, the width and height are integers, the link * * is a string. To define where the hyperlink text within the link goes surround * * it the meta-tag pair. * * * * * * Parameters for the Slide function call are (reference, link text, width, height * * and copyright string. The first two are required. * **********************************************************************************/ defaultSlideWidth=700; defaultSlideHeight=525; defaultSlideCopyright="2004"; lastUpdate = "September 8, 2004" defaultThumbWidth=180; defaultMaxPerRow=1; defaultAlignment="below"; defaultTextColor="yellow"; var slides = new Array(); // August 12 slides[00] = new Slide("01", "We think this is Purple Loostrife growing near the Agawa Canon Railroad track at Frater (mile marker 102). 12:43."); slides[01] = new Slide("02", "(left to right) Chuck ‘Papa’ Hill and Chuck ‘Pathfinder’ Hayden standing at the entrance of Ranwick Mine. This was once a uranium mine. It's horizontal shaft runs easily 0.25 miles. 14:38."); slides[02] = new Slide("03", "Professor (aka Batman) crouching in the bowels of the mine shaft. We've walked to the end passing just one bat, through cold ground water, past some old relics I failed to photograph. Neat place and worth showing your friends. 15:02."); slides[03] = new Slide("04", "Papa and Dan ‘Costello’ Fase. It's a steep descent, hence the cable on the right, down to the Montreal River. This is near the Montreal Falls just at the edge of Lake Superior I believe. 16:27.", 525, 700); slides[04] = new Slide("05", "We did some scrambling other rocks. Looking back from near the start of that scramble. It was slow but satisefying going for me. Constello's advice was certainly handy. We didn't get as far as the others but they were stopped by a rock wall in any case. 16:37."); slides[05] = new Slide("06", "Look up the river. The scramble I mention in the previous photo is on the left bank. 16:45.", 525, 700); // August 13 slides[06] = new Slide("07", "Choo-choo. The Algoma Canyon Railroad Passenger/cargo train. This is one of, if not the last, few remaining long-distance wilderness route trains that makes flag stops like the one it will be making for us. The train runs between Sault Sainte Marie and Hearst, Ontario some 300 miles north. We'll be getting off at mile marker 112 a couple miles before the Agawa Canyon Tour Park which is where the tour train (fall colors and snow train) stops for a couple hours to let her passengers dis-embark and explore. 12:59."); slides[07] = new Slide("08", "Looking west across the canyon. While I never got photos thre are a couple places on this 10 mile ride where you can see Lake Superior. We rode in an empty boxcar. Very hobo-like except we were paying $48 (Cdn) round trip. 13:10."); slides[08] = new Slide("09", "Bridal Veil waterfall is perhaps tw-thirds of a mile south of the tour park. I know there are many other waterfalls in the canyon but this and one other are all I would see. 14:36.", 525, 700); slides[09] = new Slide("10", "Black Beaver Falls is the other waterfall I would see. It certainly has more omph, that was apparently water flow, than Bridal Veil. 14:48."); slides[10] = new Slide("11", "A view from the south side of the railraod bridge across the Agawa River. Our campsite is in the woods down in a hollow just a few dozen meters away. 16:20."); slides[11] = new Slide("12", "This is how we split the wood; split the wood; split the wood; this is how we split the wood as the sun sets (to the melody West is take his turn at splitting this log. Others, including myself, have done our time. No, we didn't bring that cinder block or railroad spike in. Use what you can find locally, eh? 20:13."); // Augst 14 slides[12] = new Slide("13", "Good morning. Looking down the Agawa River. The sun won't even begin to touch our portion of the canyon for a couple of hours. It's quiet now with just our camp making noise. 07:55."); slides[13] = new Slide("14", "Black Beaver Lake. To reach this lake you climb up Black Beaver Trail which follows some of the steepest trail ascents I've seen. Local peopple, maybe ACR railroad employees, have installed ropes and a ladder to help people with the climb. They certainly helped me. I don't know what the trail distance from the canyon floor to its top is but the vertical ascent is on the order of 600 feet. This lake is perhaps half a mile beyond the major ascent. There are some cabins on the lake. I'm not at all sure how people get supplies to these places. Seaplanes maybe. There is a gnarly two-track, definite 4-wheel drive type path, but wether it's really viable is not something I can say. It's a lovely lake. I wish I'd gathered up stuff for a bivuac here. 12:34."); slides[14] = new Slide("15", "We've hiked out to what we're calling Little Round Top and back past other lakes and over nasty two-track. Now we're back at this spot we this time we just forded the stream instead of climbing over the stuff you see in the background. Black Beaver Lake is in the background.16:10."); slides[15] = new Slide("16", "Another view of the water ford section shown in the previous photo. 16:10."); // August 15 slides[16] = new Slide("17", "Almost the whole group. Top row (left to right): Vic “Kemosobi” Weeks, Bill “Wapiti” Smith, “Chappy” (not sure of his real name now; the elder of the Fase clan), Costello, Paddy, Matt “Red Squirrel”, Any “Magellan&rdquo Kursch,“Professor”, Randy “Recondo” Letts, Litre (John I think; Letre is pronouced 'Lee-tray'), me (Ken Knight).
Bottom row (left to right): West, Patrick “chipmunk” (youngest on the trip - also part of the Fase clan), Chuck “Papa” Hill, “Belvedere&rdquo, “Kramer”, Brain “Government” Neff. Steve “Old School” Harrington is not shown. Photo by Pathfinder. 10:57."); slides[17] = new Slide("18", "The sign says a lot. One mile to the tour park. I'd say we're already in the canyon. We'll bum around the park for a while because we want to have lunch on the tour train. 11:13."); slides[18] = new Slide("19", "Anotehr view of Black Beaver Falls. Nice spot to while away time. 11:42."); slides[19] = new Slide("20", "Here comes lunch. The train was running a good 90 minutes late but it was here now. The have a swanky dining car with good meals. If you do the tour it's a whole day affair so you'll no dobut eat in this car at least once. 12:56."); slides[20] = new Slide("21", "A view from on high. From the lookout some 320 steps and 300 feet above the canyon floor. The train is still at the park, but that won't last. 14:11."); slides[21] = new Slide("22", "Looking across the canyon to the other side Pano #1. 14:12.", 1402, 751); slides[22] = new Slide("23", "The same wall just continuing to rotate around, but it looks better as pane #2. 14:12.", 1948, 718); slides[23] = new Slide("24", "And she's off... The tour train is heading back to Sault Saint Marie. Look at the wonders they get to travel through. 14:15."); slides[24] = new Slide("25", "The Lookout Assault Team. Pathfinder, myself, Magellan, Recondo, Professor, Kemosobi, Government, and Litre. 14:18."); slides[25] = new Slide("26", "When you have downtime you need to find things to do. Wapiti has found something to do (as has Magellon who is the \"target\" and does return fire from his pirch below the bridge). 16:42. I sublimely shoot it all from my spot on the tiny beach where I stand. 16:42"); slides[26] = new Slide("27", "We had wanted to do some rapelling. West would be the first to go. Magellon is waiting for him at the bottom. 16:49.
A smaller (1.2MB v. 2.5MB) version can be found here..", 640, 480, "2004", "movie", 105, "movie"); slides[27] = new Slide("28", "It's now Costell's turn to do the rapell. I believe everyone except “Old Schooll (because of his anceint style backpack (though I at first thought it was for the books on Great Lakes Diving and trees, plus others, he'd written) did the rapell (obviously those who had left earlier on the southbound passenger train did not). 17:16.", 525, 700); slides[28] = new Slide("29", "My turn now. Just starting out and then part way down. Nerve wracking, exciting, and not bad for something I'd not done since an Inner Quest trip back in junior high. 17:30", 999, 414); slides[29] = new Slide("30", "Just a little south of our campsite looking south. We're killing time waiting for the train. 12:15."); // August 16 slides[30] = new Slide("31", "After doing all that rapelling Pathfinder felt he needed to do more with his ropes. Hauling up the bucket, borrowed from a container on the bridge, full of water was what he came up with."); slides[31] = new Slide("32", "A 1:50,000 scale map of the immediate region. The wiggling thick green line that starts at BBSUM and ends just beyond LTLRTP represents a reasonable approximation of the portion of a hike we did. The hike actually runs from our basecamp (AGAWAC to BFTR where I do not have a track and we spent 30-40 minutes climbing towards BBSUM.
Waypoint info
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NameUTMEastingNorthingElevation (m)Comment
10516T06898485254370285.4
10616T06871185254685448.1
10716T06871385255079490.2
10816T06870545254585513.5
10916T06871665254102436.1
11016T06875985253922434.6
11116T06890375253627429.1
AGAWAC16T06905445252411257.0Basecamp
BBFAL216T06897795254542285.2
BBFAL316T06898135254598282.8
BBFALE16T06898175254510285.9
BBUM16T06895475253667431.02-track at rim leads to Black Beaver Lake
BEAVR16T06890775253594429.0Black Beaver Lake
BFTR16T06898415254375268.0Black Beaver Lake trailhead
KENCMP16T06905385252442281.8My tent
LTLRTP16T06871415255084493.0Little Round Top
MC-LK16T06871005254361436.0McDougal (sp?) Lak
", 613, 1008); slides[32] = new Slide("26small", "", 320, 240, "2004", "movie", "", "", true);