I believe that over the years, as QJ'rs meet at Canoecopia and other places, friendships form, and joint trips get planned.  I see this as a great off-shoot to the QuietJourney site. 

Over the years I've also occasionally seen "cold"-posts where someone posts an open invite to QJ readers to join his/her trip; or someone posts his interest in joining a group. 

I am curious to know if these trips among QJr's -- but still strangers -- have worked out. 

Each year it seems more of a challenge to find 3 like-minded souls who are willing and able to take 10 to 14 days off on a canoe trip!

prouboy

OS - Would love to connect with you and SD on Kawnippi. Particularly if I could have one of those awesome island sites in McKenzie Bay  up

Could still happen, so you never know.

But I'd actually enjoy a trip with some QJers some time.

My usual paddle partner and I have tripped with Kingfisher once. 

It hardly felt like tripping with someone I didn't know, though.  Considering we each have 1700+ posts on here and that we've met several times at Canoecopia, plus each of us has submitted trip reports on QJ, I felt like we each had a pretty good idea of what to expect out of the other.  I'd go so far as to say that there were less surprises out of that trip than trips I've taken with friends that I knew in person.

I would trip with KF again, along with quite a few others on this site.  I don't think we slowed down KF too much...   

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Wrong, the correct response is "Make it so!"

Oh, oops, wrong group.  That is the Star Trek group.  Never mind.

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