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No need to throw limburger, a gentle breeze will work just fine.
Kim knows her boats, and what she says is correct. I’m 5’10 (and 1/2!)” @ 190 and find the boat paddles like a dream when packed for only a day trip, but is pretty sluggish when out for 5 or more days. You’ll be much happier with something larger.
Chuck
@Jerry R. 306 wrote:
….BTW the cleaning fish picture is on Pooh Bah lake….
….and is a BASS. :eek::D
btw, the Sundowner has not been made by Wenonah for quite a few years. The Escape is still made and is a bit narrower and faster than mine though just as seaworthy, although I do have a prettier color.
This is a pretty sad attempt at a web gallery, but I let Photoshop do all the work as I’m not in a web building mood. It’s good enough, though, to get an idea of how good a time we had in Quetico.
http://www.chuckkimmerle.com/2007quetico/
Chuck
I was actually taught that, in fast moving water, the more experienced paddler should be in the bow for the reasons PK expressed. I would guess, though, that means a lot of backpaddling and slow going as it gives the bow paddler more control.
Chuck
Well….lemme just say that Jerry absolutely abhors bass (considers them satan’s spawn), but was forced to partake as on a couple of nights we had little, or no other, fish to add to the pot. To his credit, he choked it down with only a hint of gagging, but he did sob uncontrollably throughout many of those meals 🙁
All the streams and creeks (and lakes, for that matter) were low. In some of the smaller creeks, we did as much muck walking and paddle pushing as we did actual paddling. Unless something drastic happens, rain-wise, expect to get muddy.
Chuck
Hey Barry,
Did you EVER get the response your were looking for? Jerry relayed what he told you earlier, and he’s pretty much correct. He does fill the darned things up too much, if you ask me, but he carries them so I don’t rightly care. My job is just to get it on his back.
I personally don’t like the traditional canvas packs as the leather straps are horribly uncomfortable, but all portage packs are packed pretty much the same, so here’s what I do: I pack the bottom gear in a single row, even if it takes a bit of struggling. For my smaller Granite Gear Solo pack, that means my tarp/tent sitting vertically on the left, the compression-strapped sleeping back in the middle, and the 15-liter clothes back vertically on the right. That sets the basic shape of the pack. Everything, with the exception of my dry shoes and loose clothing/jackets, gets put on TOP of that row. The aforementioned shoes and loose clothes can go behind as they don’t balloon the pack up too much.
The trick is the bottom row. Keep it flat. The flatter the pack is overall, the more the weight is centered over your hips on NOT pulling you over backwards.
Chuck
Ahhhh….nice to post in a canoeing forum I DON’T have to moderate.
Yep, the Quetico trip was fantastic. Not really a true “comeback” trip as I was out this past spring with Jerry and Dave for five days of BWCA fishing, but this was my first remote, extended trip since Wabakimi in ’05. Felt like my old self!
The pants-around-the-ankle story is true, and one of the funniest things I have ever experienced in the boonies aside from a killer-weasel story that actually gave me cramps (you had to be there).
PK, while we did see someone almost every day, it was usually only ONE other party. The last couple of days we had a layover near the entry points and did see a couple of other campsites, but that was to be expected. Added all up, the folks we saw were about half of what we would have seen in a single day (morning?) in the BW.
So much for post #1.
Chuck
