Field Reports/Sep 2025
· Temagami, ON
Temagami Corridor — Preliminary Survey
Survey
Three days walking a corridor we had only ever read about, with no expectation of finding anything and no disappointment when we did not.
This was reconnaissance, not a search. No container was expected and none was sought.
The purpose was to test whether a corridor that reads well on paper reads at all on the ground. It does not. What the claim maps render as a continuous access route is, in three separate places, a wetland that has taken back the grade entirely. Any theory built on the assumption that a person could walk this in a day is a theory built on a 1971 aerial photograph.
Method notes, since these are the only part of a survey worth publishing:
- Fixes taken twice per waypoint, an hour apart, averaged. Divergence under canopy ran 40–90 m, consistent with the Latchford finding.
- Jill ran a compass traverse in parallel with the GPS track for 2.4 km. The traverse and the averaged fixes agreed to within 15 m. A single uncorrected fix did not.
- Photographs were taken at every point where the ground disagreed with the map, which turned out to be most of them.
The full working file for this corridor is not published. It supports an open investigation and will be released in its entirety when that file closes, along with an honest account of what we got wrong.