Beautiful portage shot today -- where is it?

jimmar wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2009 at 3:51pm:

Your shot must be from the one long portage between Sarah and Side.  I did the three shorter portages along the creek last spring and I don't recall any of it looking like this.

dd

DentonDoc wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2009 at 8:55pm:


yup it's the long one, as I recall the other side of that hill is worse. Our outfitter suggested that portage, oddly enough I haven't used that outfitter again.

Old Salt wrote on Mar 25^th, 2009 at 5:57pm:

Talk to our outfitter. I ordered a decal today for my cedar stripper.

OK, you got me on this one -- what are we looking at today?

Yes, it was a campsite on Jackfish Bay on the end of October last year.  These "huge canine tracks" were adjacent to some fresh deer tracks.  

starwatcher

Highway 11 ??

I guess that could be a lot of BW portages, but it reminds me of the Sandpit-Tin Can Mike portage running along the old rail bed.

I vote with Ho Ho.

Tough to argue with that!

Great pic!

wally wrote on Apr 1^st, 2009 at 1:39am:


October 19, 2008 temps usually on one side of freezing or the other.  The worst days are steady drizzle, freezing rain.

starwatcher

Where is Bingschick lake?

thebutcher

I like it. Good job mr. tiger.

Sorry for the absence.  I got a pm to alert me that some of our photos were PODs.  Yes our trip from Brant to Seagull last year was quite desolate at times.  Many of the campsites are closed and others offered very little to block the wind.  The campsite on Bingshick was one of the nicer ones.  I'll check back later today when I get some time to post a follow-up.  I'll let Le Tigre know that some of our shots are up to as he may have a smart remark or two.

Karl

Nice set of pictures starwatcher. Where is todays from?

Nice photo starwatcher appears to be Lower Basswood Falls from a really nice angle.

flpaddler wrote on Apr 8^th, 2009 at 11:13am:


most definitely

thebutcher

I was wondering if that was LBF but it didn't quite look right to me.  I guess that's the "interesting angle" part.  Great picture!

WR, you're alright by my standards, puns and all.  Summer its popular, but we had it all to ourselves.  I'm trying to recall whether we saw anyone else on this trip.  Maybe one set, usually we might see someone during our week long trip.  Like I say; worst is freezing drizzle, but the best is sunny, 50 degrees, and I love the autumn canoe scene.

starwatcher

Ahh, so it is, didn't see it at first. The color of the pine needles? on the ground and the orange in the rock really stands out.

Lots of people camping there for the night in Sept. We had a solo paddler vist our campsite and later we visted his. It was fun talking with him. It was our first quetico trip, and the first time I heard the term 'decompress'.

Thanks Starwatcher: it was a good week to be in the woods. Jackfish rarely gathers the wind in the direction you need to travel. I found a photo of the falls from nearly the same angle from May of 08.

Great pic of the Tamaracks in color. I can see the birches behind them have their leaves down already. So how far behind the birches and red maples do the Tamaracks turn? They usually begin with a lighter golden color??? These might be ready to drop their needles?? When I've gone in early Oct the Tamaracks are still green, but the small red maple bushes and birch are nice. Northern Indiana is just barely in the Tamarack range and where they are it's closed for deer season when they turn.
pre for info

Here's a pamarama of the west end of Jackfish Bay, todays' POD.

starwatcher

Beautiful picts! I wonder if the larches are kicked into a color change by a lower temperature than the decidedous trees???? Beautiful nevertheless.

Todays pic
reminds me of the Sandpit -- Tin Can Mike...in a dry year.

MMMM-maybe water levels buffer temperature for the Larchs-wet year color is later, dry year color is earlier....not that it makes much difference theyre still wonderbar. Grow them at home-not the same though. Always make a point of hitting the local spots in the fall to take a gander-try to pick the dreariest day i can.....Love them!

Karl-Starwatcher,

Your autumn photography has been stunning!  Thanks!  I am enjoying every shot.

Wally, I understand.  I haven't been out this route for a while.

Spartan2 wrote on Apr 21^st, 2009 at 10:23am:


Thanks Lynda, coming from the pro I really feel honored.

starwatcher

Riversend....oooo....ahhhh......lighting is the bomb isn't it.....try with grasses/willows-pussy and such. 

Attitude

starwatcher wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2009 at 9:51am:



SW,

Small farts (meow!) are soon overwhelmed by prevailing breezes.

Good pics!

Jimbo   

db,
Is there ANY way you could run a series of El_Tigre's POD"s ?
I think if he wants to be a critic, he should be able too take what he dish's out!
Better yet, how about a Mexican Death Match between the "UNMASKED" wrestler in Jimbo's Jimboree pic and the Tigre ?
Loser shuts up for good about the PODS

I think I did see a tiger shot in POD resently. It was nice. Sunset, lake, and shoreline shot. I even might have commented. (It was nice too, just checked.)
But really, why the negative and closed mind. Nothing wrong with the shots he's complaining about IMHO. I guess he's intitled to his own opinion. I'm just hoping tiger can expand his appreciation of simpler motifs.

Here's a concept for the artist.
Still life; orange trowel, white paper on roll, cat  

Let him search for meaning. No help please.

Actually the maple leaf raises a question I have about the maple trees in the Q. Mostly they seem more like bushes than trees. Is it just the limit of their range or are they different? I've seen very few at even a modest height.

We all react to the PODs -- some we like and some we don't like.

Fortunately, most of us control ourselves, and compliment when we see something nice and keep SILENT when we see a pic that doesn't impress us.  We try not to be judgmental, because we understand beauty and art is personal, and who are we to judge?  This approach is based on humility and maturity, among other things. 

El_Tigre: I would tell you to grow up, but I'm not sure you get it. 

I'm irritated for responding to this.  It's exactly what the little person wants -- attention.  I suggest we ignore future stupid comments when they occur again, as they inevitably will.

Sad.  Pathetic.  Ridiculous. 


prouboy

Quote from jimjsolo:

Actually the maple leaf raises a question I have about the maple trees in the Q. Mostly they seem more like bushes than trees. Is it just the limit of their range or are they different? I've seen very few at even a modest height.


Been to woodland caribou but not the quetico....the pict is definitely Acer rubrum....red maple....is at northern end of range there is also Acer spicatum-mountain maple-similar leaf -if I had a scanner I would plagerize and send copy of leaves from Dirr's Woody Plant manual. Google. Both are going to be smaller statued trees unlesss they are in a very happy spot....Mountain maple I have expereinced on the north shoreof lake superior is typically growing in a clump of sorts like Amur Maple,, Acer ginnala- a non native asian landscape plant, and is considered more of a sub tree or understory tree. Red Maple is a a very popular shade tree in the US due to the fall color , like in starwatchers pict everyone digs red. Personally I have yet to see a high quality selection of red maple but that is another topic...I believe the are better left to the north woods than the city, I have to admitt been enjoying the beautiful flowers again this spring-for that is how the tree,I believe, got its name-Acer rubrum.....red maple. They also prefer lower areas as the like water-very closely allied to silver maple-Acer saccharinum-which is the common riparian tree-there are actually hybrids between the two...the grex is known as Acer freemanii.....So that is the scoop.....northern edge of range, dry conditions .....a young stresssed out tree that is also most  likily why stargazer got that shot of the amazingly saturated fall colored leaf.....right place right time!  Good shots stargazer

Thanks for the maple information marlin!  Very informative.  The red maples really stand out during late September when they are the first to turn color.  I think I found the last remaining leaves on our late October trip.

I always liked the small-sized Moose or Mountain Maple from the BWCA and really like the bright orange color they turn in the Fall.  We also saw them in the mountains of Virginia where we lived out East.

I was wondering about the difference between the Red Maple and the Sugar Maple (acer saccharum) that's the emblem on the Canadian flag, that has a similar range up through the area and I'm curious about the variety the Ojibwa in MN depended on the sap for maple syrup.  I know that in Duluth and the up farther north along the Laurention Divide Ridge we get spectular red colors in the fall.  I assume red maple, or maybe both, but I'm not sure.  Any thoughts?  May be I need to start a new thread.  

starwatcher

solo quote:Marlin, Thanks for the maple info. Here's one about as big as I've found. Straight across from the portage landing on BH for BH/Q.


Looks like a rubrum to me. I have seen them just a bit bigger in the BW, at least in the area that i have been and they are really show stoppers in the fall. For years I have been meaning to catch the early show of flowers as i think that that is more impressive. They are flowering now in the metro are of Mpls.

thebutcher quote:as a botanist I appreciate your descriptions of what we are viewing. Dirr, although quite the character in person, does have the "bible" of references in the woody plants manual. One thing I would disagree with you on though is the lack of quality rubrum selections. I believe there are quite a few - especially burgundy belle, A. rubrum 'magnificent magenta'  is quite nice in my opinion. are you familiar with that one?

Dirr is a character, a well connected one at that Many many years with plants....woodies....a child of Raulston to whom we own tons...the same does to Dirr especially if you are of the southern type. Disagreement is healthy and good. I say let them prove themselves. I have seen Northwoods come and go, October glory come and go, Autumn Blaze is junk....all in search of the fall color....what about heat tolerance, branching angle, sun scauld, leaf spot.....? I watch and I observe the plant material....check out the display gardens year after year and for God's sake dont trust everything that a salesman tells yah they're salesman and time will always tell the truth that is what I think, or what i have learned....think about the flower carpet rose series....trash think about about the new scandinavian rhodes...trash......I can go on and on....well maybe trash is a little harsh and I should really give credit where credit is due....as humans we all want...usually what we have not got and G. Jekyll said something to the effect always place the right plant for the spot...dont make the spot suit the plant....how many of us have the spot in our backyards for a red maple----I do love them so thou especially in the canoe country. Alemanchier, Carpinus caroliana-been selecting the reds out in the fall every chance I get-might be container culture , Quercus alba or rubra(beware of oak wilt ), or Acer saccharum if you are confident with the genetics and the verticillium factor are safer bets I think. But i have been watching the cultivars that you spoke off in the trials, and my verdict is still in process . The breeders tried sorting out the heat and soils thing with the fremanii grex...again hit or miss I will let you be the judge. I know we will get to the spot someday with the reds but what will it be an emerald ash bore equivalent, or a new race of verticillium, or maybe a vascular disease like phloem necrosis/dutch elm disease in elm, or even something like chestnut blight ...ponder just how long the oaks, sugar maples, and basswood have been here in there upland environment.....I think that is just another thing, a pretty thing, that makes the canoe country an amazing place....the more one looks the more amazing it becomes and I know i am very lucky to be able to experience and soak up the things there that only can trully exist there. Its kinda like planting a black ash in a boulevard.....just cant quite get my mind around it....maybe its just me

Thanks for the Maple info.  I hadn't paid much attention until now, but the maple leaves in my POD
(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) is from the same campsite on Thursday Bay and obviously a different variety of Maple.  Silver?

The reference I really enjoy is John Eastman, Forest and Thicket, because he decribes all the lore associated with the plants.

starwatcher

Riversend,

Thanks, I'm not sure what your poem is about, but If you're sincere you are welcome to have a print., or you can go to the POD and have db send you a card with your poem attached.

starwatcher

Phantom Jug,

It's the campsite on the island point on the north side of Jackfish Bay; the opposite direction of the previous day's POD that was looking down the Bay.

I guess he must be refering to the four canoes. I hope he understands that they're a cross breed between Grumman and Alumicraft.

starwatcher

starwatcher, yep I'll take one if O.K by you...poem was a spontanious little ditty dedicated to my wife that I'll put alongside the photo mat..I will hang the photo where it can be admired by others that will say...oohh, ahhh when they see it too, and yes the 2 types of canoe is obvious and stands out to my eyes..

pj:scary.. :question...you aint seen nuttin yet sugar

That water looks COLD Rick

 Regarding todays POD.
I "thought" only the Native Peoples could have live wells in the Q :question
 I searched the MNR regs, and all I could find was that the live wells had to be marked with a name and address and that contents of well, were part of the your daily limit. Obviously nobody is putting their name on a rock fish well in the Q.
 I could of sworn that was discussed here before, but didn't find in a search.
 

 All I could find in the regs, under storing and transporting fish, seemed to be in reference to fish holding structures made with man-made materials. That's were the name and address thing comes into play.
 I've seen plenty of rock fish wells, but I thought "we" had a conversation about them, and I'm thinking the thought they were "illegal" had to do with fish mortality rates from predators or fish that get out but have been affected by heat or possibly low oxygen rates?
 It might just be faulty memory on my part

I believe we've discussed fish pens before but I don't remember anyone saying they were any legal issues involved. If there were I'd bet they'd have more to do with baitfish than someone's breakfast/brunch/linner/lupper.

Excellent POD today. I can almost feel the cold, clear water on my feet... I wonder what kind of fish is on?

Akula-- to answer your question--walleye.  We stood in that spot and caught some nice eaters in the early morning.  Pooh Bah is an extraordinary lake.  Have you ever been there?

Oh yes, we know that.  we only had 8 fish in the well,  our conservation limit for the day.  We didn't eat 8 fish a day though.  I understand the limits very well.  Kim

Thanks,  I love to use black and white film.  Kim

Gotta love that pic today -- The white pants are particularly good for showing how deep the mud is! 
-Tom

The blueberries and raspberries hit home today.  I just bought six blueberry bushes and two raspberry bushes and I'm planting them today.  I'll hope to have a bumper crop in a few years, or the other outcome is that somebody has to feed the deer in my yard.    Hopefully the former version.

starwatcher

MMMMMMMMMMMM Yummy in my tummy.....put them in yellow and chocolate cakes too....go real good with the lakers and sweet potato....mmmmm cant wait ......Starwatcher beware of the bunnies with the Bberries they luv to browse in winter.....one of their favorite foods....cage them in winter Plant with wood ash and peatmoss too-the berries will be numerous and large

Hey Starwatcher....not sure about the specifics for razzleberries....@ folks the pH is high...so I guess since I really never saw any severe issues there I would belay to that and what I have seen in the woods....pH @ folks is/was in the high 7's....up there I would think that you should be below 7...and in the woods I most commonly see them associated with deciduous hardwoods and that reinforces my feelings regarding a sweeter(higher pH) soil.....the most important thing that I recall in regard to the raspberries is that one should avoid dryness at fruit set and there after...during production times-a thick later on compost/leaf mold would be of assistant and putting the fertilizer under this compost would lock the phosphates down where they need to be, and pruning them properly.....and burying the summer canes over winter to get good production on the first fruit set....but I grew up with day length specific berries not day neutral like Heritage is.....fertilize w/ 10-10-10...5/10/5... they are heavy feeders. the varieties that I grew up with were Latham and September Red. The pH can be dropped with lime, gypsum(pellitized), and maple/birch compost...mom made this wonderous raspberry sauce with the fall berries(they are much bigger and taster IMHO)-process is similar to processing tomatoes in glass mason jars.....it was holiday fare on homemade vanilla ice cream or frozen custard....very good stuff and I cant forget the raspberry red currant jelly...MMMMMMMM YUM