I'll give this a shot. As you may know, I want to take a solo trip in mid to late September that my wife is not too crazy about (thought I've made three solo trips). Tripping with others would releive her fears.

I wanted to do Stumpy's trip, but the timing is wrong (daughter's wedding.)

I've done a dual solo trip with someone that I met on that other bulletin board. We had a good time.

I would entertain a multi-solo trip with others. By multi-solo I mean we travel together but haul our own gear, food, etc. Each has his own permit. We don't have to stay together the whole time.

I'm open to ideas. Maybe we meet up at some location. Maybe we enter at the same entry, maybe we don't. I would prefer to stay in the BW.

I'm not big into fishing, but I do fish. I trip for the fun of tripping and exploring. Hauling photo equipment is a must for me, maybe even a camcorder. I'd consider base camping if there are plenty of day trip opportunities.

Any takers?

wrote on Feb 20^th, 2005 at 1:15pm:

I wanted to do Stumpy's trip, but the timing is wrong (daughter's wedding.)

The wedding of a niece in June is messing me up, too. Sorry about September, but I don't play well with others.

-aj

wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2005 at 12:41am:

I don't play well with others.

No problem...I can be that way too. I guess that's why I would prefer I real loose assocation of trippers rather than actually traveling with someone.

wrote on Feb 20^th, 2005 at 1:15pm:

I'm not big into fishing, but I do fish. I trip for the fun of tripping and exploring. Hauling photo equipment is a must for me, maybe even a camcorder. I'd consider base camping if there are plenty of day trip opportunities.

This sounds a LOT like me. I'll let you know if I will be around
the BW/Q in September (I don't want to let all of the mid-June time off slip away and have another trip planned for mid-August - three trips might gain too much attention ;)).

-aj

Rookie,
I will also be traveling in Sept. with one other. I do not travel well with crowds but maybe we can hook up for a day or 2 that is if our iternaries match. I'm meeting with my traveling partner today to finalize our trip plans, at present we plan on an entry date of Sept. 10th at Praire Portage exiting Sept. 18th, let me know what part of the park you are planning on traveling and when.

flp

flpaddler...I haven't decided where to go yet. Just know I want it to be somewhere I haven't been before. I'm staying in the BW though. Your dates look about right.

I will be traveling out of Lac LaCroix into Quetico in September for 8 - 10 days.  If you are headed into that area, let me know.

Rookie,

How's your planning going?  If you haven't settled anything yet, I am interested in discussing this with you.   I solo in the BW, usually 2-3 times per season and September is always on the itinerary.  Like you, my wife worries about me and this would lessen her fears... maybe.  The entire solo process (planning through exit and all the solitary experience in-between) invigorates me.  On the other hand, there is a quote in the most recent BWJ that rings true for me...   "The seasoned solo tripper will feel wilderness magic known only to those traveling alone - and wish a thousand times over for someone to share it with".  The idea of having an association on the front end and back end of a trip with a loose communication tether in the middle sounds just like what the doctor (or wife) ordered.

Red Solo,

I'm a CPA. No planning yet until after the 15th.

I read that article too. I disagree that one evolves from solo tripping to group tripping. I think one should do both...and enjoy each for what they are.

Let's discuss the possible trip in two weeks.

Red Solo and anyone else interested in a multi solo trip here's what I'm thinking:

My wife will let me do solo trips (I've done three), but she's not wild about it. Doing a multi-solo trip would get absolute blessing. I did this with one other guy last year and it worked out very well. This may be a good opportunity for someone to try solo tripping for the first time without actually being alone.

Some time in September, I would like to take  a trip with a few others (or maybe just one), each paddling their own canoe, hauling there own gear etc., and traveling under their own permit. This may require using an entry that allows quite a few permits in one day, or using entry points that are close to each other and rendezvouing somewhere, or even entering on different days (you go in on Tuesday, I go in on Wednesday and meet up.)

We would camp at separate sites. We can do some day trips together or alone. When traveling, we could do so together or least close enough to keep in contact in case there is a problem. Two-way radios would probably be a good idea.

If there is any interest, let me know.

Did you find anyone to do the multi solo?
How is this going?

wrote on Jun 21^st, 2005 at 1:38pm:

Did you find anyone to do the multi solo? How is this going?

We have a total count of 4 at this point. There is one other guy who is interested, but can't commit yet.

Are you interested?

For those interested, my idea of a multi-solo trip this September is taking shape. Three of us have our permits. One other guy is in Quetico this week and I'm almost certain he will get his permit upon his return. We will be meeting up on Insula on the 16th. A trip in to Fungus PMA is being discussed.

I would be interested in seeing how this went.  I am considering a trip next May, I was going to go solo but thought it might be interesting to hook up with someone else for a few days in the middle of a trip if it worked.  

We will find out real soon. Beavers and Butthead are already up there; are entering Lake 1 today. Beemer and I are driving up today. He should be on his way from Chicago, and I will be leaving within 2 hours.

We are meeting up on Insula. Saturday we are going to bushwhack through the Hope lakes to Maniwaki. After that, who knows.

We'll let you know how it goes.

Interesting note on the PMA situation. The rules state that only one party will be issued a permit per PMA section. We are all traveling on our own permits. Beavers talked the forest service into allowing us to group up in the PMA. We are not breaking the more than four canoe rule so I think the Service went along with it. All of our permits will be cross referenced to Beavers. We all had to call to make a reservation for the PMA.

Kudos to all of you. I hope this works out well.

Rookie's group-solo was a great success. (And Rookie actually showed up  ;D ) We all had a good time, explored lakes and learned a thing or two from each other. A trip report wil be filed eventually.

Kudos guys
I'm glad it worked out for you, and looking forward to reading about it

Thanks rookie!
The fun and challenge of another solo trip, yet the ability to share the the experience during trip, priceless!
Great trip, shared experience, knowledge gained, new friends
made.
butthead

Didn't one of you guys post a report of this trip a week or two back. I later went back to look for it, but it apparently had been deleted (moved?). I see there is now a similar looking report posted on QP's site, submitted by Beavers. Is this the same one? If yes, may I ask why it was taken off Quiet Journey? Maybe I'm just plain missing something here.

My concern is IF some offense is the cause for any member to pull a trip report, I'd like to know about it. I believe I can speak on behalf of other forum members as well.

-YB

Yellowbird:  Beavers deleted the report he had posted because I'm working on a combined trip report....which should be interesting to try to thread together; none of us stayed on the same campsite together for any of the nights....two entered a day before the other two...one left the group 2 days early...and Beavers left the group a day early. Are you confused yet? Wait until you read the report.

Rookie,

I'm a junkie for trip reports. :)  I like the idea of this type of trip and am looking forward to reading. Thanks for clarifying, btw, confusion is a long time aquaintence of mine.

-YB

Sorry for any confusion.  I posted the start of my version of the trip report before I knew Rookie was working on a full length report also.  I figured he should get to tell the story since the trip was his idea in the first place.  I'm sure it will be a much better read as I'm not much of an author.  ;)

You can check out some photo's from the trip in the   (You need to Login or Register while waiting for the full report.
There should be more photo's added as all the guys get their pic's together and we can post them.

Beavers

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I posted this under Current Conditions and Trip Reports but I have changed my screen name from Rookie to Paul since this thread was started. (Ain't 10 trips enough to get me out of "rookie" status?)

Rookie=Paul; Bryan=Beemer; Andrew=Beavers; Ken=Butthead

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2006 trip has been announced.  See post dated 2/4/2006.