mastertangler wrote on Dec 27^th, 2010 at 3:18pm:

Yikes! Glad I'm planning going in August and not June :) [smiley=thumbup.gif].

I think June will be an interesting month. I plan on doing the Minjim route paddling a circle route and entering the actual Minjim route from
Royd. I think the extra water will be a good thing through the "Nile" section and possibly other places. I'm going back I hope in July and will be interested to see the difference in waterlevels. The boot sucking portages will be the worst.

I haven't been very good at lashing my gear in on lake travel. But in the WCPP the risks are so much greater. I never heard of a ditch kit before this year and feel that is a no brainer too. There was discussion on another site also on this. I wonder sometimes what world I've been living in. I got to thinking my way of lashing when I do lash my stuff in is flawed... I'm thinking of drilling holes in my gunnels and making loops where I can whip up a quick sort of net to hold my stuff in. I know we have an actual net sort of made for that on our rescue sled for our fire dept. The sled is pulled behind our snowmobile for remote rescues and the net is sort of thin bungee material. My packs stick up to high for a cover I think. I do usually tie in my portage yoke. Couldn't imagine losing that on a trip. Up there there is no room for error, so my next few months are going to be spent preplanning these important aspects. How many people go without even dry run putting packs in canoes to see how they fit? I made that mistake a couple years ago. We had three people in a Winonah Minn 3. It was a May trip and we packed heavy, in my opinion. My duluth pack ended up with a broken buckle from jamming the packs in a tight space. I think we'd have been much better off with a tandem and a solo with that much gear.