Wow PJ you sound like me and taxes!

PhantomJug wrote on Feb 26^th, 2010 at 6:12pm:

What's my rush?  I'll tell you my rush. There are 365 days in a year.  I get to spend 8 of them with Pascannel in a canoe in Quetico.  That's roughly 190 hours out of 8,760.  Subtract 20 hours for travelling, 56 for sleeping, +/- 10 for screwing around in camp with chores etc.. and that leaves 94 hours for fishing or 1.07% of the year to fish Quetico.  Every minute not spent in a canoe fishing in Quetico (while in Quetico) is a minute wasted IMO. So, if I can get my coffee in 5 minutes vs. 15 thats an extra hour and a half on the water. There is a greater life lesson in here though; which I would be happy to share with the rest of you.  Canoe camping, like life, is ...... Who are you going to be Pax?  Recipe guy or fishing guy?  The choice is yours.

You can do anything with math!

Forgive me if I'm confused but as I recall Pax is the guy with the aluminum barrel(s). Not my type of trip these days but I'm sure they enjoy the dividends of their effort tremendously.

Some count pounds and ounces while others count minutes, seconds.... Most look at it as a return on investment. It's all about perspective and priorities. Goals, degree of difficulty and efficiency are awful subjective and I really love to see them expressed.

Take the bushwackos jambo for instance. It's, at the very least, a contradiction or (perhaps - sorry) a Snipe hunt depending of course on your perspective. Either way, it's a defined goal where efficiency becomes a major concern at some point. Worth thinking about at any rate and thinken's light, cheap and has little downside. Great to see people who already know what they want and still tweak a few extra electrons in an effort to get to where their going more efficiently.

Some (me for sure) will gladly trade effort for serendipity any day.