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Posted by: paddlerpj
Posted on: Jul 17^th, 2009 at 9:18pm

Kurt, et al,

We had a few wind issues during the week, nothing serious. The good news was we were going west to east, so the wind was with us for the most part. A bigger issue was probably the mosquitoes, Tuesday (July 8) on the McAlpine portage were the worst mosquitoes I've ever seen. That aside, it was a wonderful trip. Fun to watch my daughter and her husband learn to paddle together. I think the first three days they probably paddled twice as far as my wife and myself, by the end of the week they were old pros

Report to follow next week.

Posted by: JChief Posted on: Jul 15^th, 2009 at 11:47pm	Quote
Kurt and PJ: Looking forward to more details on your trips (and pics too?). East end of Pickerel to Olifaunt is a good days "work". East to West on Pickerel into a head wind can be quite an experience. Sounds like both trips wnet well. J

Posted by: Fish Bones
Posted on: Jul 15^th, 2009 at 6:59pm

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PJ, yep that was us. How was your trip?? The wind kicked our butt that Sunday, we made it out of French in to Pickerel and only made it to the first big island. With the one/two foot waves, white caps, gusting wind my son and I were paddling with everything we had and only doing 1mph and barely keeping the canoe from swamping.

So, we paddled less then two hours and were wind bound the rest of the day. We made up for it the next day doing a 13 hour day from East Pickerel to Olifaunt.

How were things out on Beaver House?

Kurt

Posted by: paddlerpj Posted on: Jul 13^th, 2009 at 5:33pm	Quote
Kurt, Was it you and your crew we talked with briefly on the 5th at CCO in Atikokan - we were catching a shuttle to Beaverhouse and you were going in through French Lake? Hope you had a good trip - will post details of ours soon. It was super!! PJ

Posted by: Snow_Dog Posted on: Jul 6^th, 2009 at 11:08am	Quote
Hope you have a great trip!

Posted by: Fish Bones Posted on: Jul 4^th, 2009 at 12:54pm	Quote
We are on the way. Left Atlanta yesterday about 1pm, we are about 40 miles south of Duluth. The rookies are excited and the weather is looking good for next week. Stopping to stick our feet in Lake Superior and hitting Gander Mtn in Duluth. Will report back on the way home. Kurt

Posted by: Fish Bones
Posted on: Jun 9^th, 2009 at 3:23pm

PJ,

I beleive the Bud 2 Fern Portage is about 400yards or so. If it is late in the afternoon and the site on Bud is empty and we are all tired, we might just stop for the day.

I'm with you on taking it easy, except the first day. I want to push them hard the first day to see what the group is capable of, it will help me gauge if we can continue the planned route or if we will need make a route adjustment. After the first day we will then take it easy, setting up camp mid afternoon or so giving us plenty of time for exploring and fishing.

Two years ago, took the wife, daughter (14) & son (12), entered at BeaverHouse, we didn't even make it a third way down Quetico Lake (southern part) before we needed to set up camp, wind, rain and cold kind of zapped everyone's energy. I was thinking, oh crap, what am I gonna do. But they rallied, by the end of the trip we did Jesse (far west side) to Batch (CS at the north side of the narrows, across from the portage) in a day and still had time to spare. Might not have been a big day for some but it was for my family, I was real proud of what we were able to do.

Kurt

Posted by: paddlerpj Posted on: Jun 9^th, 2009 at 2:07pm	Quote
If you make it into Bud, it's not much longer to get into Fern. Pretty easy portage as I recall and not long. We take pretty leisurely trips, try to set up camp mid-to-late afternoon, catch some fish for dinner.... so getting from French to Bud is about as far as we go in a day Have fun. PJ

Posted by: Fish Bones
Posted on: Jun 9^th, 2009 at 1:47pm

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Mad_Mat,

CCO is dropping us off at French. We are renting canoes from them, overnighting in their bunkhouse and they are taking care of all the paper work. Jim usually likes for us to get an early start, like 7am ish. so it should be a drop and paddle at French.

I am more worried about the weather (rain & wind) and how hard I can push these guys the first day. I can't control the weather but I can have influence over our group. I've been prepping them on paddling hard the first day so we shall see how it works out.

Chatterton falls is on the list but if things are not going as planned, we may have to skip it. I have a route planned but I am leaving it flexible should things not go as planned.

Kurt

Posted by: Mad_Mat Posted on: Jun 9^th, 2009 at 12:26pm	Quote
(You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) also, check out this thread - it may be busy at Dawson Creek on the 5th (if the link wont work, just look bak on pg 6 here)

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