Used is only $566 though.

PhantomJug wrote on May 26^th, 2021 at 9:37pm:


I'd let lightly used copy go for $400 and I'd pay shipping! Heck, I'd even throw in some BWJs from back in the day.

Today's POD isn't in the Q, but on the Missanabie River
in Ontario, pre Q days.

  Circa about 1984. I was about 36 in this shot.
   This was when before I became a solo paddler.

  You can't tell from the shot, but the guy whose turn it was to plan the trip for our 4 man group failed to do his due diligence as usual.

  This was before any of us had Internet. He saw an ad for the outfitter in an outdoor magazine and made the reservations. All he asked was if they had access to the Missanabie River and if they rented canoes.

  Turned out the lodge was on a lake chain about 2-3 portages from the river. They had only 2 canoes.
The one seen in the background was an 18' Grumman and the one I'm in is a 20' Square stern freighter canoe!!

  Turns out the canoes were mostly for people who wanted to stay and fish/sightsee on the lodge lake.

  The access to the river was for motorized fishing boats they kept there.

  So after much finger-pointing between the guy who failed to ask enough questions and the outfitter who didn't like being screamed at, we ended up taking them.

The portages were brutal to carry that freighter canoe across. Ended up with 4 of us having to do it.

  Once on the river, it was okay except in the wider parts of the river where the current was slow and the wind was in our face.

  That 20' canoe was like paddling a couch down the lake. When we arrived at our pick-up point which was a small campground with a boat launch for motorboats the guys there came down to ask where the HELL had we come from?? And more importantly why are we in a square stern freighter canoe sans motor?

  Highlight of the trip for me was coming out of the concrete men's bathroom and almost bumping into a #500 black bear who was sauntering down the road heading for the enclosed fish cleaning station.

Bear just gave me a quick glance and kept walking.
I went back to our camp where we had to spend the night before being picked-up and made everyone hang their food packs.

Later on that night a couple of campsites over some guys were in the back of their pick-up camper and a bear tried to come in thru the screen door.

They beat it off by throwing a pot of hot coffee on it. Bear ran off but didn't leave the area. Didn't get much sleep that night.

The next morning we packed up and took our gear down to the parking lot to wait for the outfitter.

The rangers showed up armed with shotguns because that bear was a nuisance now and sooner or later someone was going to get mauled/killed.









 

Jimbo wrote on Jun 13^th, 2021 at 1:49pm:


  I was inspired to send some old pics in because for a while there we were seeing other people's throwback pics which I really enjoyed.

I hope others submit some old pics and maybe the story behind them.

My Dr says my biological age is about 10 yrs less than my chronological age. So I'm going with 62 instead of 72! 

I am going to look up some vintage photos that I can share.  Won't have any story as good as the fish worms (ick) but maybe I can at least play this game.  Hard to find photos I haven't posted here before, but I'll try.  And, realistically, probably people won't remember if they were posted before anyway.