HighnDry,
That's understandable. QP hasn't been around QJ much in the past decade. However, QP (standing for "Quetico Passage") was once by far the most prolific poster on QJ. That was back in the "old days", of course. Back in the day, he was a chronicler and recorder of park information of ALL sorts. He had extraordinary encyclopedic ambitions. For instance, he was well on his way to photographing the contents of every known Olive Jar in the park. I was with him when he did a few of those. I'd leave him for an afternoon, go fishing, and retrieve him a few hours later, after he finished taking pics. I'm not sure if he ever finished that project. He also had a goal of video-taping as many portages as he could for reference library purposes. He was also doing something similar with a campsite database. For a while, he even ran a digital magazine called "Wilderness Passages" (to which I contributed a piece or two). Also, almost every Friday night, he would serve as a sort of "Master of Ceremonies" on QJ's old "campfire chats" (a "live" chat room no longer offered on this site). QP was into a LOT of "stuff" that dealt with Quetico Park, CanoeCopia, etc. He was everywhere.
And then, one day, he was not.
His passions shifted, dramatically, to salt water fishing and other pursuits. He started manufacturing fishing lures, both salt & fresh water, I think. I only found out a couple years after he started that business that MY silhouette (casting from shore for small mouth bass at Rebecca Falls in Quetico) is the image he uses as his company logo, based off of the original pic he took of me there back in 2006. I've had a few brief conversations with him over the past ten years, I suppose. He tells me that Quetico is probably not in his future again.
So, that's the short version. Oh, I forgot to mention that he is a good one to have in the bow of your canoe OR to follow down the portage path. Smoke from his ever-present stogie is almost as good a form of mosquito-control as DentonDoc's permethrin-soaked, radioactive handkerchief.
Later,
Jimbo
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