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I'm focused on planning and prepping.

I'm planning & prepping for 3 trips! 

Just nailed down routing & equipment list for trip #1 in late June.  I've been "packed" for months... just need to pull a couple items out & stick another couple in, based on conversation with my nephew/newbie/paddling partner down in SC this past weekend.  Basic theme to trip: "keep-it-simple-stupid."  We only have 7 days (really 6, as we exit early on Day 7).  The guy is a conservation program manager for our federal government.  While he wants to see the park, he REALLY wants to fish, so we will emphasize that more than travel.  We'll stick around big Pickerel Lake and maybe a few lakes within a portage or two.

Trip #2 is a luxury trip and not really in the park.  I'm still going to "count it" since we'll be hitting several lakes just north of the park (& maybe fish peripheral lakes of Quetico, too).  My brother & 2 guys I haven't seen in 40 years will be joining me at The Quetico College School.  We'll day-trip from there each day for a week in search of smallmouth bass.  This trip starts 5 days after I get back from the 1st trip.  We'll be living in relative luxury, renting a house on Eva Lake at QCS.

While I'm excited about all 3 trips, Trip #3 may be the one I have the greatest hopes for.  I have no idea where I'm headed but I hope to be there (Quetico, WCCP, somewhere else in deep north woods) for @2 weeks, probably in September.  While ANY trip up north is nice, I REALLY enjoy it most when I can immerse myself in the experience.  Typically I begin to shed my mental baggage and civilized rhythms on about the fourth day.  After that, well... it's the experience I seek the most.  I really begin to hear the birds, feel the wind & move to the beat of a preferred drummer, both in sunshine & in storms.  I'll do this 3rd trip in September (as a solo, most likely) and have noted a few QJers who have also mentioned possibly doing trips at that time.  It's always nice to run across friends for a day or three up north.

Yes, planning & prepping - and daydreaming - are good things!

Jimbo   

I am planning a trip first, the whole family (wife and two adult children).  We will be hanging around Pickerel Narrows, mostly, and fishing intensely. Due to conflicting schedules this trip will be later and shorter than normal for me. We are putting in at Nym Lake on the morning of June 19 and returning home the morning of June 24 if all goes well. We cannot afford any layover delay , because both sons have flights to catch in Detroit on the 25th.  One son arrives home from Korea on the 16th and the other from Dallas on the 15th and my wife, who is a teacher, has to work until the 16th.  We will start the drive up to Attikokan (Canoe Canada Outfitters) from my home in SE Michigan on Saturday evening the 17th.  I will rent one canoe from the outfitter and bring one of my cedar strip canoes. It’s looking like I will do all the planning and likely most of the packing. I have not started any preparation yet which is not typical for me, I usually start to prepare months in advance.

Perhaps the shorter trip duration will be a blessing since I anticipate more mosquitoes, black flies and ticks than I normally encounter. I expect I’ll forget to pack something, or my menu planning may not be fully appreciated.  I also anticipate a little family friction (pressed from the wifely/motherly direction) because my sons will want to maximize fishing time at the expense of family time, and will resist sacrificing fishing time to “inordinate” caution.

I’m remaining positive, hoping for adequate gear and supplies, fair weather, biting fish and lots of family fun time. I look forward to capturing some great photographic memories and creating some memorable, positive, family experiences.
Prepping and packing start this weekend. 

Quetico put-in on June 1.  So, I'm in the final stages of prep.  This essentially will be a base-camping trip (a couple of longer stops) over a two-week span.

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then it must be time for another bear thread?

was out Turkey hunting last weekend - drove down to the camping area at the state wildlife area I hunt Friday night.  Tried to turn in early since I wake up at 3:30 to have breakfast, and finally fell asleep around 9.  9:30, something hits my truck and wakes me up - (I sleep in the back of the truck, under an aluminum topper) - I sit up and see the head of a bear go flash past the side window.  I grab my shooter and scream bloody murder at the pest, and he ran off.  Now its harder to get back to sleep, wondering if the bear would come back for a second try - but he didn't.

That's the second time I've had a bear mess with my truck while I've been asleep in back.  Don't keep any food in the back, everything stays in the front cab, and I don't have anything particularly smelly in any case.  Damn bears!