All good advice.

I bought this book when I first started going to the Q and highly recommend it.
I've NEVER done one of his routes EXACTLY as he laid them out but used them as a foundation for trips I did do.

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  I would lay out his routes on a paper map, then mark places I wanted to deviate too.

  Then I would look in the QJ trip report archives to find info about those places. Between that and asking on the forums, I got a lot of info that would have taken years to learn on my own.

  I think it would be fair to say you could spend the average tripper's lifetime of paddling in the Q and still learn something new every trip.  Just the time of year/weather can change the course of your whole trip.

  That's why most of us have Plan B's, maybe more.
I used the FUBAR plan last trip.  ;) ;D ;D