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Todays POD is one of the clearest Picto's I've ever seen.
Where is it at?
I'm wondering "if" the Native person(s) who painted this and many others, wasn't under the influence of some Magic Mushrooms ;D
The Moose(?) seems obvious, but is that a Wolf/ Native Peoples dog, chasing it?
AND that guy after them both looks like Sasquatch, or maybe PJ after a couple double fingers from the Jug  ;)

Hegman Lake picto's. :) Thanks that was the one and only time I have been able to get the wife up there with me. :-/

If there ever were picto's that were convincing for "forgery"...those might be it

Spectacular autumn shot today, Brooks!   [smiley=dankk2.gif]

Thanks!!! :) Theses pics were from a sept 2007 trip with the wife. I haven't got her back there since :'(

Spartan2 wrote on Oct 16^th, 2009 at 10:01am:

Spectacular autumn shot today, Brooks!   [smiley=dankk2.gif]

Agreed... remarkable!

Jimbo   8-)

Great autumn pic. I can smell the leaves!

WiF

Awesome photo! Kudos

I really like those beautiful autumn photos.  You really did a great job of capturing the season.

starwatcher

Thanks all for the comments. It was a beautiful time of year to trip and we time the colors just right.

I agree with others, great series of fall photos.

I think the monks at Gethsemani had today's creek photo in mind when they described serenity.

If I could escape there with a book and a cup of coffee, (switching to, say, Woodford Reserve about noon), all would be right with my world.

Peaceful photo. Thank you for sharing.

-- kypaddler

Perfectly put, kypaddler (even the Woodford Reserve).   :)

Very tranquil indeed.  Thanks for the photo.  

For those of you who enjoy Woodford Reserve, there's a similar creek at their distillery.

This series makes a fall trip look so attractive!  Nice shots - thanks!
-tom

Thanks again for the kind comments :o I am also enjoying the pics and the fond memories they hold for me.

Beautiful picture satchmoa!! Wish I was there. :) starwatcher

Can I please be there now?

Great string of pictures. The birch trees in todays pic are stunning.

Oh, Mike.  Oh, my!  Gorgeous!

Mike,

Quetico or WCP???

Jimbo   8-)

Thanks Lynda!  
Jimbo -- the answer is "yes!"  It was on Crooked Lake, on the American side, looking into Canada.

Very nice. It's no wonder why I like Canada so much.

Today's POD elicited an instant and almost audible "Wow!" from deep inside my brain.

I sooooooo want to be there!

Mike P -

Again, I ask: Quetico or WCP?!?

I took a nearly identical pic this year (not as well photographed, of course!) but I never made it to Quetico.  There is a spot on the NE corner of Aegean Lake that looks suspiciously similar to the spot in your pic....

Wherever the heck it is, I'm just like old MK631... wishing I was there!

And, mentally, I am.  I thank you & all POD providers for fueling my escapist moments.  Keep those pics rolling in to db, folks; I believe his tank is still close to empty... and we have LOTS of daydreaming miles to go!

Jimbo   8-)

Thats crooked lake jimbo.  BWCA / Q border lake.

Could be a lot of lakes... including the one 5 hours' drive further north that is on my screensaver.  

I'll take your word for it, PJ.  They are all worth an afternoon's daydream.

Jimbo   8-)

Jimbo wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 9:20pm:

Mike P - Again, I ask: Quetico or WCP?!? I took a nearly identical pic this year (not as well photographed, of course!) but I never made it to Quetico.  There is a spot on the NE corner of Aegean Lake that looks suspiciously similar to the spot in your pic.... Wherever the heck it is, I'm just like old MK631... wishing I was there! And, mentally, I am.  I thank you & all POD providers for fueling my escapist moments.  Keep those pics rolling in to db, folks; I believe his tank is still close to empty... and we have LOTS of daydreaming miles to go! Jimbo   8-)

Jimbo -- It's Crooked Lake, west of Lower Basswood Falls.

prouboy

Nice dramatic picture of Minn Lake today!  Reminds me of the trip we took two years ago.  Great photo Mike.  :)

The pictographs on Darky are on the cliff just to the left in today's picture.

It's nice when dinner comes to camp...

:-?Kinda looks like my bathtub :-/ Kidding!!!!!  Ju 8-) [smiley=dankk2.gif]st sitting here enjoying the POD's

Great POD. Makes me hungry...   ;D

Akula wrote on Nov 17^th, 2009 at 6:26am:

Great POD. Makes me hungry...   ;D

THAT'S what that Laker thought when he saw that Double Loon spinner in the Spring Frog pattern "swim" by ;)

Knowing it's September and not some hot July day ... Ahhhhh!

It has been over two year since I have been out there and will be next August before I can return. The photo today makes me so Quetico sick it's crazy!!  

Ahhhh! is right. No bugs, not much wind, no rain, high temps in the low 70's, quiet and solitude....just about as close to heaven as I'll ever get.

AAH .. Nice... I can smell the smoke and hear the crackeling of the wood in the fire and hear the loons out in the distance. Does it get any better [smiley=thumbup.gif]

[smiley=thumbup.gif] JC...ALL of your photos are spectacular.  Thanks  8-)

Well thanks a lot IC, I think many of the PODs have been great. Taking photos is one of the thing I really enjoy while on a trip. I wish I could get some wildlife photos like those I've seen recently.

Nice shots today and yesterday looking down the lake.  :)  Yesterday's looked like the canoe on the horizon was floating suspended in mid-air.

Nice shot today of why you don't "lip" a walleye like you do a bass!  
;)
-Tom

James

I like this sequence of photos and themes.  Makes me feel like being there.   :)

starwatcher

Ditto.   [smiley=dankk2.gif]

You can thank db for the sequence, I just sent him a bunch of random photos.

I've been enjoying them too  8-)
I've got to ask about today's shot - is the green coloring from submerged grasses or what?  The tint is unusual.  
Thanks
-Tom

Where is the portage with the corduroy, from yesterday?

wrote on Dec 21^st, 2009 at 4:26pm:

I've been enjoying them too  8-) I've got to ask about today's shot - is the green coloring from submerged grasses or what?  The tint is unusual.   Thanks -Tom

Mk631,

Looks like what my group kept calling "Angel Hair Grass".  We saw a lot of it just wavering in the current of the Darky River, up above Darky Lake.  Look at it long enough & the stuff would about put you to sleep!

Jimbo   8-)

squigman wrote on Dec 21^st, 2009 at 6:07pm:

Where is the portage with the corduroy, from yesterday?

Maria to Jesse

Looks like fun.  Thanks.

jimmar wrote on Dec 21^st, 2009 at 8:05pm:

squigman wrote on Dec 21st, 2009 at 6:07pm: Where is the portage with the corduroy, from yesterday? Maria to Jesse

Sooo fun.  I had a boot sucked off there once ong ago.  
I used to use mid-calf no-lace rubber boots that kept you nice and dry -- until the water got above them or one got pulled off.  In this case I tried to hop on one foot with an aluminum canoe on my back & re-insert my foot without getting it wet.  I don't recall being very successful at that & but I think it looked entertaining to the guys I was with.

Anyway, what time of year was this?  It's on my route for August 2010 & I'm interested if I can expect as much slop as many years ago.

Thanks -Tom

That was mid-June 2009. The cord wood was high and dry but the suck mud was just a stumble away.

Nice bait! First bait pic we've had in a while... ;D

What is that anyway a Redhorse or something? At first glance I was afraid it was a carp but I know that ain't it.

BTW - No one bothered to mention that bottle of salad dressing yesterday.    Huh.    I'm truly amazed. Were you all thinking how nice salad looked on a canoe or simply not notice? Christmas spirit perhaps? Poof.

Any POD 'series' of images, taking that term as far as you'd like, is ~Courtesy: all of you and then some so that's where thanks should always be directed.  [smiley=dankk2.gif]

And so ends the 09 pod series. I do what I can with re-sequencing what people offer so it's always nice to have   (You need to Login or Register. I'm low on snow and ice images at the moment.

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Tomorrow will be begin the annual, heavily photoshopped, java induced, traditional PC Christmas card people always seem to complain about so some of you may not want to look at the POD again until next year. Here is the text in that case:



Meanwhile...
Ever lengthening days mean more time to hug the kids, love the wife ... and eventually paddle. May you all keep that Merry Christmas, Happy Festivus, ... state of mind as long as possible and count your blessings with as many fingers as you want but don't forget your toes.

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The first POD of 2010 is very nice and well worth the wait. Good timing too!

Truth be told, db, I was too engrossed trying to figure out what the heck the green and orange stuff was on those plates.

I should have recognized it as salad (it seems so obvious now) but in the context of a canoe, I was confused.

I mean, I would assume that picture wasn't taken in somebody's backyard but in the north country, thus shouldn't that be hardtack and bannock and maybe fish leavings?

If I pulled a head of lettuce, some carrots and a cucumber out of my Duluth pack, I'd be roundly mocked.

heh heh.

Merry (almost) Christmas, y'all.

-- kypaddler

OK, I'll bite.  WHAT bottle of salad dressing?  All I see is some plates of salad on a canoe--and that gave me a double-take as it was!   ::)

Merry Christmas to all of you, too!

See attached.

I looked at it as I processed it for the POD and looked at it again when I set the order, one more time to make sure there was a picture displaying around midnight. I saw it yet again when I loaded the 1/1/10 image and two screens later it hit finally me. Hey, wait a minute, let's back up a minute....

My excuse is the salad was unusual enough and then I probably thought cool, red dressing, alright! (It does look good doesn't it?) I'm just surprised a couple hundred people saw it and no one even asked about the bottle.

It's a bottle of food IMO. You can legally bring in stuff like OFF in an aerosol spray can but not PAM - at least the way I interpret the rules. My brain just assumed salad dressing wasn't food I guess. When I realized it even could possibly be considered a bottle of food I made it go away.

I know the BW allows beer in plastic bottles but you can't burn your empties. Peanut butter is obviously food but those 'jars'   ::) would be considered acceptable -IMO- perhaps reusable? Salad dressing also comes in packets though so I'd prefer a POD wasn't somehow 'suggesting' bottles for that purpose. Maple syrup? I don't know, I always splurge and get the real stuff and repackage into more conveniently shaped bottles for group trips.

I asked and brought in a glass bottle of Buckley's once with blessings from the staff - because that's not considered food I guess.

Don't take my word for anything though. I could easily be wrong and or over complicating things - and I'm certainly not judging the photographer. It's just my well reasoned and insightful, personal opinion while thinking of my own safest, easiest, best path options.  ;)

Way to go Spartan2. Now my brain hurts.  ;D

Anyone know for sure how certain things fall under the rules?

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db wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 7:19am:

What is that anyway a Redhorse or something? At first glance I was afraid it was a carp but I know that ain't it.

Looks like a whitefish to me.

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Redhorse fins are usually very red or orange.

Agree...looks like a WHITEFISH.

Redhorse are a member of the "sucker family".  Hmmm...perhaps the namesake of my spring solo....Thompson lake down Redhorse creek to Redhorse lake to Redhorse bay of Namakan.

db...all I saw was a plastic bottle of salad dressing

well, I'll go with redhorse...I catch a few whitefish every winter while crappie fishing, and I've been known to net a few "whitefish" or "tulibees"....smoke em, pickle em or fry em {whitefish} ..good eats ;D.....on the other hand, I figgured "plastic" salad dressing bottle, as I do enjoy a fresh salad for as many nights as I can untill "skunk cabbage" forms ,... but I figgured no one would use anything other than an alum. canoe for a picnic table, which also makes a good surface for setting the camp stove upon :o...Prouboy: hats off to you for knowing what a canoe is really for ;)

Riversend wrote on Dec 24^th, 2009 at 1:00am:

well, I'll go with redhorse...Prouboy: hats off to you for knowing what a canoe is really for ;)

good golly: the more I look, I'm not sure...snoot looks like redhorse, but the fish in the photo has an adipose  :question (not sure of spelling) fin.....gosh, I'm never worng am I :question  am I, amI, am I,well ..maybee ;D....but anyhoo....nice pic-a-nic table  [smiley=thumbup.gif]

I think Whitefish or Tulibee.  Doesn't Redhorse have a wider, sucker-like head?  And maybe smoother sucker-like skin ?

RE: Bottle of Dressing, if it is glass it would be a bad idea.  But I also take a big bottle of dressing for a group trip.  I have never considered I had to re-package salad dressing which was in plastic already.  In a group you would use a whole bottle eventually and would be way less garbage than using packets of dressing.  Packets or those little plastic tubs with foil cover work good for one or two paddlers.

Since all the POD images are inaccessible until next year I attached the fish in question.

I i looked it the other version I have was any help - noticed the photographer added "Caption for the fish photo: shorthead redhorse" I knew I got that name from somewhere. Wouldn't know myself.

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Beautiful shot Riversend.

Solus wrote on Jan 1^st, 2010 at 7:01am:

Beautiful shot Riversend.

Indeed. Thanks for sharing!

WOW!!!

Very nice!

Not too many sights can send a little shiver thru me and put a smile on my face at the same time ;) One of the best POD'S ever!

Another great picture Riversend. You are one lucky dude to be 'running with the pack'.

Happy New Years everyone.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, you, and you and you, yes thank you..thank you all way too much...but tonight I accept this award on behalf of the wolf that made it all possiable  :) without him, well it would be  another of the many pretty pictures here.....most of all, thanks to db and qj without of course... none of this would be here...... [smiley=dankk2.gif] db [smiley=thumbup.gif]

db wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 7:19am:

BTW - No one bothered to mention that bottle of salad dressing yesterday.    Huh.    I'm truly amazed. Were you all thinking how nice salad looked on a canoe or simply not notice? Christmas spirit perhaps? Poof. [smiley=dankk2.gif]

DB -- I'm back, and once again lurking on QJ.  I looked at the old PODs and was surprised to find a few of mine, and even more surprised they inspired a little chatter.  

But what red bottle are you talking about?  I see no such thing in the photo of the salad on the canoe.  

As for the fish, one of our guys had a fish id guide and based on that we figured it was a redhorse.  Strangely, caught it in deep water, with a small sinking rapala!

prouboy

Mickey and caught one of those also, on cherry this summer past fishin' for Lakers. I surmise that we hooked into him in near to 50' deep. Is it really a redhorse or is a whitefish?

I am enjoying this recent series of PODs, but I have to ask -- was it intended to be a winter camping trip?  :o
-Tom

It's just our standard mid October trip.    ;)  Sometimes you get nice, balmy autumn weather; somethings you get to make rum slushies. :)

starwatcher

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marlin55388 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2010 at 4:57pm:

Mickey and caught one of those also, on cherry this summer past fishin' for Lakers. I surmise that we hooked into him in near to 50' deep. Is it really a redhorse or is a whitefish?

I'm pretty sure it's a redhorse

prouboy

Now for some reason I just love the date on the canoe pic...really cool... but I'm wierd that way


an I'm still sticking with Whitefish >:(

Looks a LOT like what I was pulling out of the Yellowstone River in Montana last year... whitefish.  

Jimbo   8-)

It looks like it may have an adipose fin and the mouth is not a sucker (as in redhorse sucker). Kinda hard to tell from the photo. I vote whitefish.

Okay, I'm going to show this picture to a MN DNR fisheries guy...not that he/she is the final word...but I'll let you know what I hear from that source.

prouboy

wally wrote on Jan 5^th, 2010 at 8:43am:

Now for some reason I just love the date on the canoe pic...really cool... but I'm wierd that way (

I knew I liked you for some reason Wally.

prouboy

Where was the bear pic taken? [smiley=thumbup.gif]

William Lake outlet? Nice! 8-)

Today's POD is beautiful, where was it taken?

May have seen that (pic) moose before. Worth another look.  Photoshop no doubt.  ;D  ;D

The only thing I did when that picture came off my camera was to crop it and send it to db. I have several more of that bull including a little video.
MagicPaddler

MP: Yikes! Were you as close as it looks in the moose shot?  
Nice nice shot BTW!  -tom

Its a little hard for me to judge the distance in my memory but I would guess about 100FT.  Most of the time he would not even look my way.  He wanted the breeze to keep the bugs off his face. The canoe kept drifting so my back was facing him. That was at the narrows on Burnside Lake on my solo trip this past summer.  Todays POD, the camp sight with the hammock is my camp sight on Sturgeon Lake.
MagicPaddler

wrote on Jan 13^th, 2010 at 1:08am:

Todays POD, the camp sight with the hammock is my camp sight on Sturgeon Lake. MagicPaddler

That site looks familiar. Is that the kinda high one on the north shore near Scripture? You could put a huge tent photo left.

Puckster wrote on Jan 4^th, 2010 at 11:35pm:

marlin55388 wrote on Jan 4th, 2010 at 4:57pm: Mickey and caught one of those also, on cherry this summer past fishin' for Lakers. I surmise that we hooked into him in near to 50' deep. Is it really a redhorse or is a whitefish? I'm pretty sure it's a redhorse prouboy

Well, I was WRONG, again.  And to all those guys who said Whitefish, you were right, as always.  Here's what Steve Hirsch, from the MN DNR, wrote when I sent him pics of the fish in question (from the POD 12/23)

Definitely a lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis.  They are a coldwater fish, often in deep water.  They have a small mouth and therefore usually target small prey, so they are not commonly caught by anglers.  Very good eating.

prouboy

db wrote on Jan 13^th, 2010 at 5:08am:

wrote on Jan 13th, 2010 at 1:08am: Todays POD, the camp sight with the hammock is my camp sight on Sturgeon Lake. MagicPaddler That site looks familiar. Is that the kinda high one on the north shore near Scripture? You could put a huge tent photo left.

That camp sight is on the North shore West of Scripture Island. Its where the North shore almost touched the long skinny island that runs East and West.

Spectacular pic today.  Wow!

prouboy

...and today!

...very nice wildlife shots recently!
-Tom

jimmar wrote on Jan 17^th, 2010 at 3:09pm:

...and today!

I think I like the loon shot even more than the eagle shot.  The baldy is beautiful, but nothing conjures the feeling of being 'up north' like the loonies!  8-)
-tom

Great loon shot, Ken.  I'm wondering what part of the summer or fall you took it in.  I notice a little whitening around the chin of the loon and am thinking that is the beginning of fall molt into nonbreeding plumage, which I saw a fair amount of this September.  But maybe I'm wrong and it's just normal breeding plumage.  Do you remember when you took the pic?

NIce loon shot, looks like it is swallowing something big. Very good bird shots lately.

marlin55388 wrote on Jan 20^th, 2010 at 6:25am:

Very good bird shots lately.

There were actually. I think I could have done a week of good eagle shots but I decided to break them up. I didn't plan on using this loon shot though, hard to tell what's going on but after HoHo's post I looked for an EXIF date using this one. I think I see a tail going down too and what looks like water droplets flying about so that became a good reason to display it today. They are at the size that was sent so I have no extra details to consider.

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HoHo, et.al.,
Loon shots were taken the 1st week in July, 2009. We were heading from North Bay to Burke Lake on our way out, and these shots were taken just before the portage leading out of North Bay. Early in the morning; pair of loons. My daughter-in-law just zoomed in on this guy and probably took 30 pics with her digital, and caught this guy preening and stretching. Several of the frames turned out really nice.
I like the eagle pics because they are such majestic birds, but these loon pics are my  favorites. Loons are synonymous with the northwoods, at least for me. And when they open up and preen like this, they're absolutely stunning.
Glad you're enjoying.
Regards,
Ken

1/23 sure was a nice eagle shot.  How do you get that kind of clarity on a moving target zoomed from distance?  I take pictures, but clearly I'm not a photographer!
Thanks again for that series.  -tom

Mk,
I have to confess, these are not truly my shots. I was only the facilitator for my daughter-in-law. Our trip last July was through the S-chain. First trip for my son & his wife. Primary goal was relaxation and photography rather than fishing. On this particular day on North Bay, near the exit/entrance to the S-chain, I paddled slowly while she sat in the bow. We stalked this eagle, very slowly, for hours. Really. She used a 270mm zoom lens that she had to hold very steady. When it finally lifted and flew, she clicked off about a dozen shots at a time. A lot of them were out of focus to some degree, but some were pretty good. You've seen some of the better ones. Same with the loon pics, etc. The beauty of digital photography is not having to worry about film developing and expense. In 7 days she took over 1100 shots, of which only about 300 were good and about 50 were, in my opinion, stunning. It changed me; I'll never go to Quetico again without a good camera, and I'll always take time to use it. I can re-live that trip so much better than with just a journal.
I'd like to find time to produce a trip report like the ones HoHo does. They are spectacular because of his skillful combination of prose and photography.
So, now you know. Glad you've enjoyed.
WiF

That's a really pretty shot today, Karl!   :)

Thanks Lynda,

That was the day before the snow storm,

starwatcher

wrote on Jan 26^th, 2010 at 2:46am:

Mk, ... I paddled slowly while she sat in the bow. We stalked this eagle, very slowly, for hours. Really. ...In 7 days she took over 1100 shots, of which only about 300 were good and about 50 were, in my opinion, stunning. It changed me; I'll never go to Quetico again without a good camera, and I'll always take time to use it. I can re-live that trip so much better than with just a journal. WiF

Thanks - that's actually good to know.  At my level of interest, I won't be getting shots like that and that's OK.  But even at my level, it takes a lot of time away from fishing -- but I do enjoy the pictures!
-Tom

Enjoying the Knife Lake series, as I haven't paddled that area in 10 years.  Didn't know there had been a burn, and don't think Cavity or Ham reached there.  Anybody know the details of when and where?

JJ

I was talking with the FS Station Crew and I understand that the Forest Service did a controlled burn in that area to block the potential fires over the blowdown area.

starwatcher

Looks like today (Feb 1) is Ottertrack Lake day on Quiet Journey.  Is the picture from the campsite on the north shore near the western end of the lake?  It looked nice from the water.

Yes, Ho Ho; the campsite is on the south shore on the west end of the lake (The north shore is rugged and in Canada).  That last chance to get a site on that end of the lake. It was a good site because you could access it from two sides, from a protected bay on the east side.  Ottertrack has limited campsites with only one campsite on the east end.  I wonder why the FS didn't also create a campsite at the old miner's camp on the east end that looks like a nice site.

starwatcher

Today's (Feb 4th) photo is the protected bay on the east side (which just happened to be stocked with small mouth bass).

starwatcher

Karl-
This has been a great series! Really enjoyed it; keep it coming.
Thanks!
-WiF

Thanks WiF!

Looking back they looked a little cloudy and gloomy to me now; at least there is a ray of sun today.

starwatcher

I like the rain-on-water shots today and yesterday.  Makes me feel peaceful.

Karl Everett,  I have the same REI tent.  I love it.

WiF,

The REI tent is my friends and one comment that I don't like about it is that its four 20 foot poles have to be inserted through a nylon mesh;  which is insane, very difficult, and typically takes two people to set it up.  A newer version of the tent you just have to clip the tent to the poles, which is incredibly easier.  I hope you have the new version.

starwatcher

Starwatcher:

Were your photos scanned from film? The color-balance is reminiscent of film- very nice.