I have made many blunders over the past twenty years. These are only a few of them.

Forgetting the Steaks in the cooler in the car and not remembering until 5 portages later.
Breaking my fishing pole the 2nd day of an 8 day trip and not having a spare. (I carry 2 now).
Not pulling the canoe up on shore overnite and finding it about 300 yards down shore (fortunatly only 10 feet off shore).
Taking a wrong turn going from Friday Bay to Thursday bay on the Crooked lakes and getting lost for 3 hours.
The most comical was (I forget which lake) but we took a portage and once at the other side didn't recognize anything compared to the map. What the heck. We took off anyway. The more we paddled, the more we stopped to look at the map. We all had the feeling that we were seeing some of the same scenerey that we had seen earlier. We came across other canoists paddling in circles and looking as bewildered as us. Then it struck me. We had portaged across a peninsula and back into the same lake.

Posted by Don L on December 08, 1999 at 05:37