Day 5: Outlet Bay – Berg/Ogoki River – Oliver Lake

 28 km, 5 portages, 1 line

Route:

Outlet bay

P25 – west of a well used campsite

Berg River

P26 RL

P27 RL

Portage ?

Ogoki River (upstream)

Lined ~50meters, of fast flowing water

P28 into Oliver Lake

Oliver Lake

Slept in a bit as it was another overcast day.  Paddled north and had a bit of a time trying to find the portage into Berg. 

Ended up finding the portage west (~100m or so) of well used campsite on a “point” along the north shore; about 500m from the mouth of Berg River.

Most of the day was spent navigating the Berg, a gorgeous sandy meandering river.  At the end of Berg I suspect we took a less than popular route paddling upstream to access areas further west – it was worth it though!

There was one area (“P?” on map) that was marked as a portage on the map, can’t remember if we actually encountered a portage here.  Portaging into Oliver (P28) the portage was ~500m west of the falls, several motor boats were cached here, good walking trail.

Campsites on Oliver were difficult to find.  Ended up finding a very nice, large site on the south bank - didn’t look like it had been used much this year.