Hey OS,

Where can I get a hat like the one you're wearing in PJ's pic?

By the way, you were quite the svelte character, back in the day....

Jimbo   

One of the problems that can occur when you're discussing larger than life reality stars such as myself, is that things are often exaggerated or blown out of proportion. The hat was on the clearance rack at Gander Mountain.

I don't remember PJ being there...

solotripper wrote on Jun 25^th, 2016 at 10:16am:


...and the Medicine Man of the tribe and creative genius for this pic was known to many of you long-term QJer's as "Quetico Passage."  Known affectionately as "QP", he was very active that day.  He cajoled me into paddling him a hundred meters further north along the Darky Lake rock face (so he would not further desecrate the picto - and thus invoke retaliation of Spirits - by putting his boots anywhere near it) in order for him to climb that high cliff above it.  As I recall, he dutifully left gifts of tobacco - of which he always carried PLENTY (mostly in the form of cigars to keep bugs at bay on portages) - both at the indent near the pictos AND a couple hundred meters atop the cliff.  To further assuage the Spirits he had risked irritating, he then had me paddle him to the Darky/Argo portage.  There, he begged that I wait and fish for an hour or so while he made a pilgrimage to a holy spot - a stone circle - accessible from that portage, if you know where you are going (I tried finding it, without success, years later).

In fact, QP DID return to my canoe about 2 hours later just before evening.  I was all fished-out by that time.  While QP didn't have a white streak in his hair, he DID have a certain dumbfounded faraway look in his eyes - like he had "seen things" - and kept that buzzed look on his face for the rest of his active QJ days.  I understand he has recovered recently, however.

As QP & I paddled back past the pictos en route to our camp, we experienced a rather mysterious and curious phenomenon.  As we approached the pictos, the chamber into which he had placed the holy KITSCH totem was mysteriously empty... yet I had been fishing directly in front of it all the while QP was on his pilgrimage (shhhh... excellent LT fishing right there)!  There were no other paddlers anywhere near that area of Darky at the time.  QP, sporting that vacant-look he had acquired while deep in the woods visiting the religious stone circle, began to mutter and repeat himself.  He kept indicating - more through motions than words - that the KITSCH totem "has ascended, it has ascended, it has ascended", presumably into the Spirit World where, I suppose, it continues to reside today.

Anyhow, that's how I remember it....

Jimbo   

As it turned out, that stuff worked great as "caulking" to repair cracks in a canoe.  Also, I think Magic Paddler applied it to his skin and found it to be both an effective bug repellent and anti-itch salve for poison ivy.

Old Salt could have made a fortune in pharmacology, if only he would share his recipes.

Jimbo   

Old Salt wrote on Jun 24^th, 2016 at 9:02pm:


Oh, I was there.  Just had a (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links).