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kevin
Member
Post Number: 9
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, December 2, 2006 - 8:18 am: | 
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How are things up in everyone's favorite paddling grounds? Are things getting really quiet these days as the sounds of rippling water go cold and still ? The best I can do is dream of my favorite campsite with snow drifting in around the campfire rocks . Anyone still up there ? |
curly
Member
Post Number: 23
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 3, 2006 - 7:44 pm: |
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We've received about 20 cm of snow over the last 2 days. The lakes are mostly skimmed over, with the exception of the larger ones. I was on the shore of Cassels Lake today, and saw that there were some spots open in the middle, but still about 90% covered. I'm sure Lake Temagami is 90% open, all but the bays. Maybe I'll head up to the tower and check it out for you tomorrow. I haven't put away my paddles yet, but probably should....
Kevin, I used to wonder exactly the same things you are wondering, and decided that the best way to quiet my wandering mind was to just move here. Haven't regretted that for a moment. |
kevin
Member
Post Number: 10
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 8:15 am: |
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Thanks for the update, winter has finally come to Ohio as well, so when do they usually start building the ice road down the lake? The first time I saw that I was blown away by the sight of a guy in a cadillac cruising down the lake. Move up there, now there's something I hadn't thought about....this hour anyway. Enjoy the quiet! |
irishfield
Member
Post Number: 91
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 6:48 pm: |
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Wasn't any ice road last year..poor ice and LOTS of snow on top = SLUSH.
These are shots from 2005 in January.
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mike
Member
Post Number: 44
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 7:35 pm: |
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Irishfield,
Do you know the Murphy twins, James and Jim or Mike Carriere or Bob Brown? They are all flyboys like yourself and are good friends of mine from the LE area. Between all of them they probably own at least 10 planes. A pretty good deal, kind of like a plane a day. A strange thing just happened to me on this post. It was rejected indicating that James' nickname Jack was a word that was not allowed on the forum????
Mike |
pat
Member
Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 8:37 pm: |
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Yes, we have snow here in Parry Sound
also...I hope i don't get snowed in again like last year, as the drifts come up over my doorway and then i have to phone someone to get me out!
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irishfield
Member
Post Number: 92
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 9:27 pm: |
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No mike..none ring a bell except Bob Brown..but I know at least three Bob Browns myself. I've only been up there for a couple summers. I took all these shots in Jan /05 when up to check the cottage roof. I live in Penetanguishene. Funny though...my airplane is a Murphy Rebel !
6 dog sleds on the ice road
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gudwulf
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Post Number: 26
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 10:48 pm: |
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Nice pics, Irishfield. Makes us really appreciate the wide open, lapping waters of the spring, summer and fall as opposed to the frozen FLAT north! 20 degrees here in Ohio tonight... can only imagine what the temps are doing to Temagami lakes tonight... Can you say Crystalize!} |
nature_freak
Member
Post Number: 22
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 11:47 pm: |
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 More snow on the way tonight guys, supposed to get betwwen 8 and 5 cm tonight and tommorrow.
The last two nights were -20 something, so the lakes are making good ice, but this snow and future perdicted mild temps later this week may reek havoc with the new ice. We may end up with slush ice again this year.
Irishfeild, your pics from January 05 are really good. There was so much ice that year and hardly any snow you could travel anywhere on the lake with a vehicle. It was wild. I was able to travel to Bear Island everynight from the Shell docks in town to visit with my sister. It felt freaky to know I was driving over the deepest parts of Lake Temagami...very erie feeling, but fun.
Season's Greetings to all and may you all have a Merry Christmas.I'll watch for you all when the days get longer and warmer! Chao!} |
doubleedgesword
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Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 12:25 am: |
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I love to blame the rest of the world. Although......, I drive a car,use electricity,use oil for heat, and my house is made frome wood. As long as I have my house ,car,heat,and electricity...I've got lots of time to meddle with Temagami, and of course, surely save it.
What I'm saying is Temagami should start at home with YOU. Next paragraph may be an eye-opener to some.....
when we think about our environment we tend to think of the present..ie. my house ,heat ect...,
When you think about "what it took" to make say a spoon or pencil...., the amount of energy and matter and evolution and time to produce such things is comparitivly astronomical compared to "what people used to get by on".
To be honest, if a person wanted to save Temagami, they would not go there....(without predjudice)
It costs the environment more than twenty thousand peoples lifetimes of power comsumption throughout time just to power your car up and back to Temagami. This means twenty thousand people lived their lives on less power than you took in five hours for YOU to drive to Temagami and back. Basically every person on earth right now has the equivelent power dissmisal of everyone who came before them for the last seven million years...., (which came to be in the last fifty years.)
Anything with an abundance to thrive upon , and left unchecked, will eventually either sufficate in its own excriment, or exaust it's energy intake.
Technology is a theif. It steals that which we cannot see, and we friviously let energy escape too and frow, not wanting to alknowledge our expenditures which equate to a million years per person today and forthwith.
However,the pursuit of colonization of other planets to save our species, may COUNTER what we have done. Perhaps it may justify it.
Temagami may one day be the key word for world salvation even if its residents do whats best for now.., and who could blame them..., however the real reason Temagami is special is it enlightens our thought patterens just enough to look towards not only ours but everyones future. Temagami makes you think in terms of "earth" not reigion or province or country. Perhaps it is a good first small step. Small steps make things happen...Best wishes Temagami
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kevin
Member
Post Number: 11
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 8:33 am: |
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irishfield,
Thanks for sharing the pics, very cool.
doubleedgesword,
What????????????? |
nature_freak
Member
Post Number: 23
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 9:31 am: |
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 "What i}ndeed!" I'm sorry doubleedgwsword but you lost me after although. I understand some of the point you were trying to make, but maybe next time don't try to overkill what you want to say, it makes it confusing for other readers. Just a little constructive critisim, don't mean to offend you in any way. |
mike
Member
Post Number: 46
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 7:04 pm: |
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Irishfield,
Great pics, especially the one of your plane. Im sure the only day of the year you dont fly is March 17th. Im sure you know what I mean as my surname is McNally. Ive been up a couple of times in the winter and I am sure you will agree its a whole different prespective of the area. The last time we came across a moose kill by wolves.It was kind of neat, the circle around the carcas made by the wolves. Kind of like in the movies.
The Bob Brown I know is from North Bay. He has only been on LE for a couple of years. He owned an international construction business and is now retired.Thats basically the reason why so many planes as I mentioned. Great guy. He took a chance and bought a LUP as I have had for the past 38 years. Who knows but our future looks pretty bleak as it now stands. Would love to meet you sometime in the summer. I dont go up in the winter anymore since my friend passed away a few years ago.
Mike |
irishfield
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Post Number: 93
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 6:08 pm: |
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I'll be up at least once this winter Mike to fish with a bunch of lads between Feb 15 to Mar 15 and we'd be driving....sorry doubleedge!
May fly up another time if the weather looks right.
Hopefully the snow stops and the temp drops to get a good road like 2005. Over 4 feet of ice that year and you could have driven a honda civic anywhere you wanted on the lake.
I've got a few pics of last years "mess" in early March. I'll see if there's any worth posting. |
irishfield
Member
Post Number: 94
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 6:15 pm: |
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BTW...Mike and/or if any of you are paddling by drop in for a drink/pop/beer/water always in the fridge. We're just 4 islands out from the town dock and we're there all summer, as well as mid May for a couple weeks (usually up the week before May "24"), June maybe the whole month this year. Come July.. If the planes there..I'm there until into September. This year we left on the 22nd...couldn't take anymore rain...
Wayne
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canoebear
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Post Number: 390
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 6:46 pm: |
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"C-GDJK"
May yer 4-leaf clover be flourishen fresh with
much kelly greeness.
1 leaf fer, to keep fingers crossed & to-bank-on
2nd leaf fer, a sureness that bush plane be dependable + much reliable to glide upright,
3rd leaf go fer, a fancy yearnen to fly high,
& 4th & final leallet fer, an advantaged windfall of favor to chance.
May yer Irishfields + hills embrace U,
May Her deep water lakes & wild Turtle-bank rapid rivers`canoeize-U,
May tha "Luck of tha Irish encompass U,
May tha sun shine much bright on yer horizontal level of heavier-than-air craft,
May tha rainbow of gold be certain to follow
thru each cloud cover ceilen of delayed flight,
May tha "Angels in tha Clouds" safe guard U
& tha "NE Winds" be tolerable.
More-over, don't give-up tha fly-over search fer canoebear's pack paddle mis-adventures
in tha NE Autumn Fall Seasons.
Scout fer my 3 signal fires/or hall, 3 of any thing. 3 Black Bears, 3 timber wolves,
much obliged, Heya!
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irishfield
Member
Post Number: 95
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 7:20 pm: |
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Thanks Canoebear...I've been involved in many missing person searches...just hope I never have to do one for anyone here! |
irishfield
Member
Post Number: 96
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 7:26 pm: |
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Here's a fair example of what last year was like on the lake. This is March 12th
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canoebear
Member
Post Number: 391
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 8, 2006 - 4:33 pm: |
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Irishfield,
My position be fixed a bit more to tha
NW than tha rest.Outfitted encampment concealed
in camouflaged with a whole lot of natural
blend-in olive drabs of different shades,
all be in green.
At tha time, notion 'twas payen close attention
of not to stand-out at all, so to mask/or cloak
my whereabouts, so to fool tha Black Bears fer awhile. Then to keep moven every 3rd day so They
can't get a sure fix on our routine-way of things.
U'd hav yer hands full in seeken-out me.
Might hav over stepped my boundry here.
Because of past experiences, 'twas more concerned
of not be-en Bear-attacked again. Never gave much thought bout be-en tha 1, on tha look-out-fer.
May hav to tape/or paint bright color X's on
top of truck, tent + bottom of over-turned canoe,
in order to be recovered & retrieved,
If all goes south fer Renee & me, I'm counten on U to come & get me. I'm half Irish tooo, Heya!
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bush_pilot
Member
Post Number: 99
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 17, 2006 - 9:22 am: |
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Winter breakup continues. The entire north half of L. Temagami is open except for Obabika inlet, 50% of Obabika L. is open the entire Sturgeon River appears to be open. Plus 5 again today, anyone for a Christmas canoe trip? |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 642
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 17, 2006 - 3:29 pm: |
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Bush_pilot, thanks for the report. I've been watching every day for a satellite photo, but the clouds just haven't let up. |
oshkabewis
Member
Post Number: 26
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 2:43 pm: |
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Hi,
I was talking to my dad (who lives on Bear Island), and he said that the lake was wide open all the way to the access road. He said that all through his life he does not recall the lake staying open this long. There is also very little snow. He described it as a light dusting.
Global Warming? |
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