Name of the river

[vin]

Anyone know what river Bill Mason's "Path of the Paddle" was filmed on?

[Randy Dodson]

I'm not 100% sure but i think it was the Petawawa in Ontario.

I'm just guessin Paul could tell us.

[sbroam]

In case you didn't know, Paul is Bill's son and posts here as "pmp". He has posted recently, so maybe he will be able to chime in presently.

[vin]

I asked this very same question on Paddling.Net, and several replied they thought it was the Nahanni. The reason I ask is that I've got a trip scheduled on the Petawawa in September, and thought this sneak preview might be kinda cool, if it is indeed one and the same.

[Open Gate]

Hi !

I Haven't read path of the paddle, but the Petawawa is a very small river (ran it 10 times) with classic rapids like Crooked chute (CIII-IV)and roll way rapids(CIII). 3 day trip(we'll be there again this year on labour day weekend (aug 30th-sep 1st), simply love that stretch of water, some of the finest camp sites and beautiful scenery .

Nahanni (on my todo list !) is a major river with big volume water that takes at least 3 weeks + to run and surrounded by mountains(paddlers set up base camps and go on hiking trips. A buddy of mine took 2 months to run it due to all to mountain hiking he did . I remember Paul telling me he ran it like 17 times...

Should be easy to deferenciate both just by the size of the water in the book.

Paul help .

[vin]

I don't have the book, but have the video tape. If what you say is true, from watching the tape, the background scenery is mostly heavily forested, no real mountains to speak of. So my guess would be Petawawa.

[pmp]

yes many of the photos are from the petawawa, at a variety of water levels.
-there are some photos from the nahanni.
See ya at gat. fest.
Paul