If I come across any of you gents in QP or elsewhere, I'll volunteer my sherpa skills. I can jackrabbit across the portages if I have to but I generally move at leisurely double-portage speed these days. When I solo, I've convinced myself that there is no rush to get anywhere fast. Perhaps it's with the realization that I need to pace my rate of travel.

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I have a good friend who has a PHD in Chinese medicine ( acupuncture/herbs) and works on Olympic athletes for their issues involving joint/muscular pain. Believe it or not some of these young athletes have the same issues older people have due to the stress of their training and heredity factors.

If your taking prescription meds or even if your not, before trying these alternative herbal supplements you should talk to your doctor to make sure they don't conflict with each other.

He gets great results with things like this as well as his acupuncture treatments.

If your looking for an alternative to opiate type drugs and would rather try a healthier alternative first, then this might be worth looking into.

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Good article in the BWJ. I am coming to the realization that my days of the type of trip I like best will come to an end sooner or later.  I have discussed a trip with Jimbo and nctry and both have given health reasons for not committing to the trip (maybe they don’t have health problems maybe they are trying to tell me something?). I have had my own problems with knees. I can relate to the BWJ article and it scares me.

solotripper wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 3:02pm:


You can usually buy just the digital version of the article online. Give them a call if you can't find it up on their site.

DentonDoc wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 6:37am:


I read that article. Good story and thanks for putting it in there gents! I told my kids that fellow paddle friends had gone to Cirrus "but did not find our secret campsite" 

Jimbo,

Thanks for writing the article and I will be looking forward to the full length version you promised in the "Stories" section. 

Standard apologies for briefly sliding off into the weeds here for a moment. 

Yourself, a gentleman from Naperville whom I have never met, several others here on the forum and a couple of older friends I have taken trips with,  have all become my daily inspiration to take better care of myself.  I am a bit lazy by nature and I truly believe if it were not for the need to stay healthy and fit to make "One More Trip" I would deteriorate more rapidly than I would  otherwise. This past September we crossed paths with a gentleman on Kawnipi  who was on his 61st trip to the Q and he had his 86 year old father with him.  I want to be the son now and the 86 year old guy later, that some young pup comments about.  You and everyone else who  has defied your age and struggles with some form of physical limitations is doing a service by making the rest of us aware of it.  Keep up the good work. 

Kind Regards,

MossBack

TomT -

Strangely enough, it's the person that is credited for taking the picture!  Some pretty tricky camera work there, eh?

Alas, our buddy Stu is sometimes a little lax re: specific requests (ie. "Stu, please ensure Wayne gets credit for any pics used.").

It's the second time that has happened to me in the BWJ... BOTH times involving a pic of me!  Years ago Stu ran an account of my first canoe trip to Woodland Caribou.  There's a pic of me in that one, too... credited, once again, to "me."  That's despite my specific request that my son, Benjamin, get his due recognition.

Truly, DD took some great pics on this trip, including two others which I felt should have been put into the article (& neither was).  One involved the giant turtles that patrolled our campsite on Cirrus Lake.  Another concerned a simple white hat full of gorgeous, freshly-picked blueberries... a pic almost as delicious as our pancakes the next morning!

The past year of canoe tripping was pretty tough on me.  Fellow QJer's DentonDoc &, later, MagicPaddler (during a later storm-wracked trip in September) were both incredibly tolerant & supportive, making it possible for me to have two very enjoyable experiences during a period when most folks were telling me it wasn't going to be possible due to surgery.

Debility related to this "aging" thing can be a real downer if we allow it to be so.  Exercising a little care along the way, I'll at least go down kicking... which I expect to be some years off, yet!

Later,

Jimbo   

I saw this.  I go through and read every article in order and it's next in line for me.  What I want to know is which one of you guys is in the photo of the person in the canoe?

Without going into details, I don't WANT to renew my subscription JUST to read an article by ANY QJ member as good as it maybe.

Maybe buying ONE issue is an option, I'll look into it.

the Barnes & Noble near me has BWJ in a magazine rack...first row when you walk in, top left 
it's in the travel section. completely different rack from all the hunting fishing boating outdoors magazines