marlin55388 wrote on Oct 12^th, 2010 at 5:52am:

DB's, lookin' for a bushwack!

No more bushwhacks for this paddler until either the kid gets older or I get younger.

My apologies. I do appreciate the PMs (I really did and I'm not crying Wolf 'cause who knows...) but I was doing the Q comment thing and I got to wondering how things work in places I've not been.

So do you essentially reserve a PMA for individual dates? Can you do multiples and basecamp or is it a one nighter?

Not trying to make a BW/Q comparison, just attempting to understand what things are like elsewhere. I just wanna learn stuff. My goal is to have any lakes I anticipate spending any time at all on, all to myself. Or, if they are big enough, I'll consider sharing... For me it's more location, location, location. Increasing degrees of difficulty is but a necessary evil to avoid whenever I can. I just would rather not see anyone else unless I planned to do so.

On my last trip, I ran into two guys on the Fern to Oly portage. I saw one other canoe in the distance on Sturgeon and got all the way to Jean before I traded greetings with another soul. Guess who? Same guys from the Fern to Oly portage. They snuck up on me both times and only now do I wonder where they went.