Snail mail finally came and it was worth the wait!
Winter camping story fits right in with a current post.
Never knew/realized that there were so many different ice conditions

Big Kudos to the QJ crew on their WCP adventure.
The Pink Flamingus was well represented and the story(s) and pictures were excellent.  I hope some more pics are forth coming in the Inukshuk Gallery, or another on-line site?

I had too laugh though at Jimbo's Hard taskmaster line
As someone who is usually up by 5 am and on water before 7 am on travel days, I think he's getting "soft" in his "old" age

One of the better BWJ of late IMHO.

Thanks KF

I did see these pics in the Woodland forum, but I figure with All the other QJ people on the trip, there must be a lot more pics yet too be posted/viewed?

Again, congrats on the great article and trip pictures.

 Soooo Jimbo wasn't a Hard Task master, he was a SLAVE DRIVER
Sort of a paddling version of John Wayne's classic character  Thomas Dunson in Red River
 MP playing the Walter Brennan role of 'Groot' Nadine.
His boy playing Montgomery Clift's role Matt Garth, and Quentin playing
Noah Beery Jr's role of Buster McGee.
AND dd would be the lone gunslinger, Cherry Valance, played by John Ireland!
 Can you tell I have the Classic Movie channel

ST,

Well, I suck at taking pictures... though you all will have to admit it was a neat trick HOW I took that picture of myself (& my reflection!) on that first page of the story, eh?  I KNOW I suck at taking pictures because Stu TELLS me I suck at taking pictures & asked me to BEG KF & dd to send something his way!  Fortunately, KF did so.  I am ALSO technically-challenged, so I would have to work at figuring out just how to load my lousy pics into the Inukshuk Gallery.  Maybe I can pull that off this weekend.

Actually, one of my pics really wasn't all that bad.  Just like the one attributed to me in the BWJ, it was taken by my son, Ben.  It is an interesting shot taken from inside of the cave on Aegean Lake, looking outward.  Blue sky & sparkling waters are framed by the mouth of the cave.  I really figured Stu would have used THAT pic.

You know, Stu actually "deleted" the very best part of my story, IMHO.  It WAS my next to the last paragraph (& certainly helped the last paragraph to make a whole lot more sense than it currently does!).  Anyway, in that paragraph I recounted my discussion with the old Ojibwe driver who trucked our stuff back to civilization on our way out.  He was telling us how 25 completely non-experienced youths from some Toronto inner-city program just went into the park with 2 completely non-experienced adult supervisors (early 20 somethings).  This bunch insisted upon doing things "the old way".  What does that mean???  No GPS, no maps, no matches, no fishing equipment, etc. & so on.  They had asked the Ojibwe - an elder in his tribe - a lot about how to make snares for food, etc..  After an hour or so of their crash course in wilderness survival, apparently they felt ready for their month-long adventure.  The old Indian was quite worried & pleaded with them to take him along as a guide... even if only for a few days.  They declined.  They wanted to "experience" the wilderness   By the way, they were ALSO anxious to try their hand at whitewater canoeing in their kevlar canoes.

So, the way my story REALLY ended was with my putting this question to the Ojibwe driver: "So what do you think is going to happen to that youth group?"

He paused, reflected, then solemnly replied, "Hey, even WE don't do things the 'old way'.  I think somebody's gonna die!"

Anyhow, a much richer account of that conversation got deleted from the tail end of my story.  Someday, maybe I'll ask db to put the unedited version up on the QJ Stories page.  The "unedited" versions of many of my BWJ stories are in there (including my personal favorite example, the last page of "Inukshuks & a Stroll through the Park"... deleted by the conservative Stu for use in his BWJ).

Hey, I'll see what I can do about pulling together my lousy pictures & getting them posted.

Jimbo  

We just wanted to express our appreciation to all who take the time to write trip reports.  We really enjoy reading them.  We stick to canoeing the Quetico and surrounding area but really enjoy trip reports about Woodland Caribou Park.