Snow_Dog -- thanks for sharing your experience with KF, someone you "met" on site, and who subsequently made a trip with you. 

Based on the responses so far, I'm thinking maybe there really haven't been that many other experiences like yours -- where you get to know someone on this website, maybe have a beer with at 'Copia, and then together go on a canoe trip. 

I struggled the last few years to fill out our June trip.  One buddy is a DUI casualty, another turned 72 and took early retirement, I wouldn't invite back a few who have joined us in the past, and several others still work for a living and can't find the time (or choose not to) to go on a 10-14 day canoe trip.   

We barely filled out our June foursome this year: my canoe buddy invited the husband of a friend of his wife's; and I bumped into my family physician at a gas station and (knowing he paddled the BWCA) invited him on a whim.  He agreed!  Go figure.

Each new year, another adventure patching a foursome together. 

prouboy