How about a sunrise. This was in Back Bay of Basswood Lake October 2012.
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Sunrises can be just as neat or even better than sunsets. Its the getting up that is hard..
That was probably about 7 AM. The days being shorter in October, I end up crawling in the hammock about 8:30 and read for ~30min. Usually get up about 6:30 on a rest day, 5:00 on a traveling day. Sunrises raise my spirit, sunsets while being beautiful, feel kind of lonely if you're going solo. Dave
Here's a couple of sunrises from this fall's trip to Lows Lake
And a sun set (We call this one Moon and Loon)
And the obligatory shot of happy hour in camp.
And a sun set (We call this one Moon and Loon)
And the obligatory shot of happy hour in camp.
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I've got a question about those really soupy portages: because they're so awful are they regarded as some sort of rite of passage and not to be messed with?
From my dung hill of ignorance, it looks like it would be fun to pack in a couple of hundred feet of nylon rope for lashing and "pioneer" in a bridge over it. The kind of bridge I'm thinking of has log X's for legs and long poles to comprise the surface to walk on. The walking poles nestle in the upper crotch of the X. The whole thing is braced and lashed firmly. The kind of trees I'd use, here in the N.W., we call them "dog hair" they happen when too many little trees take root in too small an area and they all grow tall but thin.
Now it's true it would be muddy work but think of all the good karma you'd heap up!
Once I quit fooling around and win that lotto, Memaquay, I'll come back there and we can do it!
Pig Pen Rob
From my dung hill of ignorance, it looks like it would be fun to pack in a couple of hundred feet of nylon rope for lashing and "pioneer" in a bridge over it. The kind of bridge I'm thinking of has log X's for legs and long poles to comprise the surface to walk on. The walking poles nestle in the upper crotch of the X. The whole thing is braced and lashed firmly. The kind of trees I'd use, here in the N.W., we call them "dog hair" they happen when too many little trees take root in too small an area and they all grow tall but thin.
Now it's true it would be muddy work but think of all the good karma you'd heap up!
Once I quit fooling around and win that lotto, Memaquay, I'll come back there and we can do it!
Pig Pen Rob
Ha ha, you're nominated Rob! Strangely, in the 1970's the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources had a junior Rangers program that was very extensive. They used to maintain many of the routes up here. If you can believe it, that muddy section has had a few corduroy roads built over it. They all disappear within a year or two. Then the logs they used become tripping hazards under the mud. The worst port however, is about 20 k from this one, between Abamasagi Lake and Meta Lake. It's about a mile long, the last half mile being terrible deep loon poop, up to the armpits in places. I did it with the kids two years ago and swore i would never do it again. Movement occurred in inches and hours, there were even water snakes swimming around us. I am going to try to relocate that one, although it has been there for a few hundred years. Here's a shot of one of my stalwart kids coming to the end on her third trip over.
Rippy, Nice sunrise,
ADK keith, Nice Low's shots, the last one brought a smile to my face, Thanks.
Memaquay said: " Here's a shot of one of my stalwart kids coming to the end on her third trip over."
She sure has what it takes, having to trip with the likes of her makes it easy to keep you coming back as a trip leader I would guess.
ADK keith, Nice Low's shots, the last one brought a smile to my face, Thanks.
Memaquay said: " Here's a shot of one of my stalwart kids coming to the end on her third trip over."
She sure has what it takes, having to trip with the likes of her makes it easy to keep you coming back as a trip leader I would guess.
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Here's a dry portage, but uphill....Montreal River, Ontario
LaVerendrye, my friend Gerald uphill again!
Gerald cuts the portage short and wades,
LaVerendrye, my friend Gerald uphill again!
Gerald cuts the portage short and wades,
Geez Rob that looks more a like a swim than a portage.
Wow, great stuff, everyone!!
Here's the start of that Rock Lake to Hardigan carry, you can barely make out the flagging on the far right.
And here's a carry, of sorts, on the Boreas River
Here's the start of that Rock Lake to Hardigan carry, you can barely make out the flagging on the far right.
And here's a carry, of sorts, on the Boreas River
A good variety of tripping shots here. Really like the images depicting the rough stuff - heavy rains & boggy portages. Good to see some get-down honest canoe tripping is alive and well.
dang, Rippy, ADK, Robin and Stripperguy ----those are some darn nice pics. Somewhere along the way, the kids and I developed a portage rating system, I'll have to see if I can find that.
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We were wishing we were about a mile away in the direction of the bow...
A little while later we got into this pocket...
I was wondering if this what it looks like when you die. The sky opens from black to bright light and you find yourself in WCW Wilderness in the Adirondacks. Well that is my idea of heaven anyway.
A little while later we got into this pocket...
I was wondering if this what it looks like when you die. The sky opens from black to bright light and you find yourself in WCW Wilderness in the Adirondacks. Well that is my idea of heaven anyway.
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This is how my wife slows my hiking speed down... she makes me put a canoe on my head!
Here's a mucky landing in Temagami, didn't step off the corduroy to find out how deep the muck is.
Here's a happy little island just sitting there soaking up the morning sun.
Um...looks like the island on my lake at home !
Christine carefully crossing a wet section. Atikaki Wilderness Park, 2010.
This portage is part of a snowmobile trail in winter, a local trapper opened it and now the locals maintain them in winter, they usually cut out any deadfall.
This section has a beaver dam alongside the trail and the flooded trail varies from ankle to waist deep even on dry years like this one.
The trusty 2 burner Coleman goes everywhere.
This portage is part of a snowmobile trail in winter, a local trapper opened it and now the locals maintain them in winter, they usually cut out any deadfall.
This section has a beaver dam alongside the trail and the flooded trail varies from ankle to waist deep even on dry years like this one.
The trusty 2 burner Coleman goes everywhere.
Rippy, you kind of sound like Bob Ross with your happy little island!
Good one Mem. Now that you mention it, the picture looks like something he would have done. Paint something scenic with trees and sky and a lake and then when you think he's done, put something large in the foreground that covers half of the scenery back up.
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