Throwback Thursday Photos

[lowangle al]

I've noticed that most of us post current photos in the Photo Of The Day thread, so I'm starting this thread where we can post older ones. I don't think it has to be too old, just not current. It doesn't need to be on a Thursday either, just anytime you come across a nice photo that you'd like to share. I think we all like photos so the more the better. If Glenn would rather keep all photos in one thread that's OK too.



Gulkana River Alaska 1993

 

[stevet]

Right to left: wife, Dave Curtis and ? On the Turner River near Everglade City. Don’t remember the year.

 

[Punkinhead]

My brother (bow) and I (stern) probably in the mid-80s in my father's Mad River.

 

[Patrick Corry]

My wife and I paddlin' rented plastic (shh... don't tell anyone!) on the Androscoggin River. Probably early 1980's.

 

[Patrick Corry]

Allagash River, 1967 at Inlet site, Round Pond. Group shelter made from 4 US Army surplus shelter halves. Note the classic crossed paddles and the prominent flask of Jim Beam. Scoutmaster Doug liked a shot in his tea during our evening meal!

Makeshift sailing rig from Army ponchos, and an Army backboard brace. Me handling the mainsheet.


Our topo maps taped together. No other maps were available at the time. Me pointing to the start at Telos Lake. My older brother apparently brushing accumulated trip grit from his head!

Our fearless leader keeping up appearances on Chamberlain Lake. He shaved every day, and usually his head too!

 

[yknpdlr]

Nehasane Forest Lodge on Adirondack Lake Lila when I was there some time before 1979 when it was razed by the state because the land it was on became a designated wilderness where no man made strructures were allowed. Not knowing that, my wife wanted to visit the "Great Camp" the next season. We learned that spring before we left that it was destroyed just two weeks prior, but we went anyway. Today you can drive into the lake shore, but at that time it was a five mile hike in on the road not yet opened to vehicles.

The view we had upon arrival:

 

[Aslowhand]

August 1985, Savant River Northern Ontario

Rookies having fun shooting a rapid...





proud fisherman

Pictures were taken by a friend of mine.

André

 

[stevet]

Old buddy Ted getting his first taste of whitewater using his OT Pack on the Middle Yough…the smile says it all. He was hooked and went on to be a WW Instructor. (year is lost in a cloud of smoke)

Ted and me after an exhausting day of private instruction at NOC
Again, date hazy.

 

[recped]

Not that far of a "throwback" but it is Polar Bear Day...........Seal River 2006

 

[lowangle al]

This one is from almost 25 years ago. With an odd number of trippers my wife took the solo boat.

 

[PaddlingPitt]

Here’s me leading our canoe club’s day trip down the Chilliwack River, about an hour east of Vancouver, in 1989. At least I think it was 1989. Could have been in the early ‘90s.

 

[recped]

Throwing WAY back!

 

[PaddlingPitt]

My very first time in a canoe. I am in the stern, likely because of my superior paddling strokes. Danny is in the bow. I think the year is 1958, at Camp Harvey West, a Boy Scout Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our troop, #257, heads out the next day on the Kit Carson Trek, approximately 65 miles (100 km) to Camp Winton.

This might be the best canoe I ever paddled. Looks like a wood & canvas.

 

[tketcham]

My third trip down the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River in Washington, twenty-five years ago. I should do a trip report with additional photos but here's a shot of us headed down river below the Vernita Bridge and first night supper. You can see a couple of the reactors that produced plutonium for bombs. This is one of the more unusual canoe routes I've paddled. You're not supposed to camp along the river down through this stretch anymore now that it's a national monument so I feel lucky to have done this trip before it got "discovered". This area has some of the most pristine high desert shrub-steppe in the northwest because of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and the surrounding area being off limits for so long.

 

[stevet]

Harry Roberts in a Lotus Caper….mid 80s

 

[snapper]

Didn't know him well but I still miss Harry...

Until next time...be well.

snapper

 

[SouthernKevlar]

Is that an "internal sponson" for floatation under the gunwales of the Lotus?

 

[PaddlingPitt]

Kathleen demonstrating her lean to initiate a low-brace turn at a British Columbia campground, around1989. Very near shore on a calm lake. No pfd needed.

 

[stevet]

Not a sponson per se…a way to attach a moveable seat and thwarts without interruption of gunnels. Also has contoured end tanks of the same material which had a leather grain effect. Beautiful canoe. Miss mine.
You could also wedge your knees under them as they are contoured for it, but it is NOT a rough water boat.

 

[jdeerfoot]

Gunflint Lk, BWCA August 1976.