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Quetico Confessions (Read 8381 times)

HighnDry Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1058 Location: Minneapolis Joined: Apr 29^th, 2013	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #20 - Sep 29^th, 2014 at 9:59pm	Quote Print Post
	PhantomJug wrote on Sep 21^st, 2014 at 5:13pm: I usually do not pinch the barbs on my jigs. I sneak into the park at least once a year. I have 'relieved myself' in the lake. I don't burn my TP. Bad dog! Bad, bad, BAD dog! ...where's my rolled up newspaper?!


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HighnDry Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1058 Location: Minneapolis Joined: Apr 29^th, 2013	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #21 - Sep 29^th, 2014 at 10:02pm	Quote Print Post
	Puckster wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2014 at 2:22am: I burn my trash. (and other litter I find laying around campsites). And when I leave there is nothing but ash in the fire pit. Seriously, who doesn't? puckster ...puckster, puckster, puckster.....sigh....I can see I still have a lot of work left to do with you....


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PhantomJug Voyageur Inukshuk Offline Posts: 2861 Location: 1/2 way there Joined: Feb 12^th, 2003	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #22 - Sep 30^th, 2014 at 4:29pm	Quote Print Post
	I had no intent with this thread other than a short study on QJ anthropology and a little catharsis, mostly for myself but thought I may as well open the confessional. Lot's of 'thou shalt not's' whether written or unwritten whilst in a canoe. I thought I would clear my conscious (and maybe help you clear yours) so we can start clean, fresh and new next year, just like a spring rain. Of course, for those of you who need no forgiveness, you can skip ahead to the "Hang it or Hide it" thread.


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HighnDry Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1058 Location: Minneapolis Joined: Apr 29^th, 2013	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #23 - Sep 30^th, 2014 at 7:24pm	Quote Print Post
	PhantomJug wrote on Sep 30^th, 2014 at 4:29pm: I had no intent with this thread other than a short study on QJ anthropology and a little catharsis, mostly for myself but thought I may as well open the confessional. Lot's of 'thou shalt not's' whether written or unwritten whilst in a canoe. I thought I would clear my conscious (and maybe help you clear yours) so we can start clean, fresh and new next year, just like a spring rain. Of course, for those of you who need no forgiveness, you can skip ahead to the "Hang it or Hide it" thread. PJ, Well said and you are absolutely right! There are the "admit-ers" and the "deny-ers". I'm firmly in the snore-ers club -- why run from it? I sleep well at night (nobody else does though) Love the thread though. Great idea. My favorite exchange on this one is the "relieving in the lake" -- had me in stitches.


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8127 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #24 - Oct 3^rd, 2014 at 5:14pm	Quote Print Post
	On occasion I've relieved myself in the lake. #1 only but sometimes crossing open water, you got to go. Considering all the thousands of critters that use the waterways as toilets, a paddler occasionally peeing is hardly going to upset the "balance". Urine is sterile and IF your wife or you ave ever had a "perm" back in the day's of big hair, one of the active ingredients is Urea which is found naturally in urine. Ever smell someone's hair whiles their getting a perm? Yup, smells like my cats litter box pre-cleaning.


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jimmar Inukshuk Offline Posts: 868 Location: SE Michigan Joined: Feb 1^st, 2006	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #25 - Oct 3^rd, 2014 at 6:32pm	Quote Print Post
	Use up the courtesy firewood without leave as much when I was done with the site. Once I didn't leave any....cringe Once I cooked and ate an undersized bass when I had no food left on the next to last day of my trip. It was only by about 1/4" and I'm sure if I stepped on it, it would measure up. I was hungry and it was pretty tasty! other than that I'm a perfect angel


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Old Salt Inukshuk Offline Posts: 4871 Location: Crossville, TN Joined: Jun 17^th, 2004	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #26 - Oct 5^th, 2014 at 6:12pm	Quote Print Post
	I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to. I guess.


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Kingfisher Voyageur Inukshuk Offline Posts: 1814 Joined: Mar 8^th, 2004	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #27 - Oct 12^th, 2014 at 9:39pm	Quote Print Post
	In 2013 Mastertangler and I were traveling in solo canoes to Conmee from Poohbah through the Memory Lane portages. We got an early start and finished the first of the three “memorable” portages in good time with me about 15 minutes ahead of the Tangler. I stopped at what I thought was the landing for the second portage and began scouting. The grass was trampled, trees were saw cut and there was a definite trail but it looked woefully unmaintained very unlike the portage we had just done. I’m working up a sweat tramping farther and farther along this faint trail clearing brush and marking a route when Mastertangler comes along and asks what are you doing? I told him that I was moving full speed ahead and was ready to hack through this portage. He failed to fully hold back a chuckle and then stated with complete calm and superior logic that this can’t be the trail because it doesn’t look as used as the last portage we did and that anyone passing through that portage would be going through this one as well. Of course since I was the self -appointed team leader reluctant to admit I was wrong so I insisted with an inappropriate amount of arrogance that we begin portaging our stuff and stop wasting time talking about it. Mastertangler quietly and calmly got in his solo canoe and pushed off heading east along the shoreline. Several minutes later he returned to tell me that he had found the real portage. I was trying to use an old portage trail that probably hadn’t been maintained in several years and would have caused us all kinds of grief if we had actually used it. His deliberation and calm reasoning saved us a ton of work. It also made me realize that I had prejudged him because of an earlier incident and was not giving him due respect. It was a humbling experience that I am grateful for and have not forgotten.


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mastertangler Inukshuk Offline Posts: 3111 Location: florida Joined: Feb 1^st, 2010	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #28 - Oct 13^th, 2014 at 2:43am	Quote Print Post
	Superior logic? Complete calm? I haven't been accused of either very often. My Quetico confession is I was seized with complete and utter terror of the thought of doing a "Kingfisher Bushwack" and in the process of sneaking away (I had the truck keys) I stumbled upon the mismarked portage trail we needed. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.


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jaximus Senior Member Offline Posts: 343 Location: wisconsin Joined: May 12^th, 2010	Re: Quetico Confessions Reply #29 - Oct 14^th, 2014 at 6:47am	Quote Print Post
	i seldom wear my life jacket i dont bring a compass i dont use a map i carry any birch bark i find during portages to my campsite i at one point in my last trip had in my possession one extra fish than my posession limit


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