Whiteman Loop Trip - 2 Hours Total This easy trail follows a series of 3 small lakes and bush trails joining Blachford to Long Lake back to the lodge. Also included in this trip is a detour to the now abandoned Cadeaux family cabin on the Francois river system. This is one of the very few signs of earlier habitation in the Blachford area. $100.00* per person please add 5% Goods and Service Tax (GST)

Thor Lake /Great Slave Lake Excursion - 4 Hours Total A pleasant winding trail heads from Blachford to Thor Lake (rare earths and exploration site). From there we head south on more bush trails and join an old mine access road to the height of land overlooking the east arm of Great Slave Lake and Blanchet Island 10 miles to the south. You wind down the trail to the 5 foot thick ice of Great Slave to view the pressure ridges. These walls of ice are formed by the pressure of pack ice coming together and forming an upheaval of thick ice. From here will explore the shores of the East Arm of Great Slave Lake and may cross over the open expanse of ice to Blanchet Island. $200.00* per person please add 5% Goods and Service Tax (GST)

Francois River /Cadeaux family cabin /Watta Lake - 6 Hours Total This trip will take you through portages and lakes surround Blachford including Whiteman, Long, Watta and Hearne Lake (named after Samuel Hearne). You first will head over portage trails of the Whiteman Trail (See trip detail previous) and down to the Cadeaux family trapping cabin used as a fur trapping base by Henry and Mary Cadeaux and their family. See their old chicken shed, tipi, warehouse and cabin. The trail follows beside the open water of a narrows in the Francois River, then a number of beaver ponds to Watta Lake. Watch for sign of moose, caribou, martin, lynx, otter and wolf along the way. You will visit another old trappers cabin on Watta Lake, and check out the many hand carved signatures in the log walls of the old cabin. Another memorable highlight of this trip is to see the open water and waterfalls at the north end of Watta Lake and on to Hearne Lake. Then back towards Long Lake and to the comfort of the hot tub at the lodge back at Blachford Lake. $300.00* per person please add 5% Goods and Service Tax (GST)

1920’s Stakers Cabin / Rex Cafe /Destafanny Mine /Great Slave Lake loop 8 Hours Total This is the ultimate in northern adventure encompassing approximately 90 km. Start out heading east of the lodge through the islands on Blachford for to an early cabin built by claim stakers looking for gold and minerals in the 1920’s. You then leave Blachford through a series of winding trails through the bush and connect with a number of beaver ponds. Explore an old geologist’s cabin and the remains of the "Rex Cafe” the remnants of a mine camp from the 1930's and 40’s. The trail comes out on Great Slave Lake where we travel west along the great expanse of Great Slave Lake to a sheltered bay and Destafanny Gold Mine, now abandoned. Continuing on Great Slave Lake you will most likely have to manoeuvre around ice ridges before connecting to the Thor Lake trail, up the steep hill from the big lake, then north to the lodge. $400.00* per person please add 5% Goods and Service Tax (GST)