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ghislaine
Member
Post Number: 4
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 8:57 pm: | 
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this is the "forum" where you can tell stories!! it's fun to hear stories about other peoples trips and tell stories abotu your own. i think its cool to hear other peoples wild trip adventures. |
tess
Member
Post Number: 19
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 8:50 am: |
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Okay ghislaine, good idea....but, why don't you start? Tell us about one of your adventures. |
sikku
Member
Post Number: 1
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 1:29 pm: |
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we were up in the anima-nipissing area May 7th - 13th. we missed one of the proper portage routes at one of the lakes (mistakingly took a fishing guide route) and got lost for 2 hours. eventually found our tracks (after increasing the portage distance by 4 or 5) and then no sooner than that, I snapped the yoke on my canoe right at the end of the portage...canoe landed on my head and knocked me to the rocks... lovely...
despite all that, we had a great time! - great weather, no people, no bugs (and unfortunately - no fish either). fixed the yoke with a hand made splint and got back AOK! i love the Temagami area |
ghislaine
Member
Post Number: 5
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 1:29 pm: |
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sure...well this past summer i did a 42 day canoe trip with my camp, Wapomeo which is the girls part of the Taylor Statten Camps. And as you can probably imagine a lot can happen in 42 days in the bush. So day 6-we were suppose to go up the spanish(yes..up!!) and stay somewhere on the number chain, depending how far we got. Very begining where we had got on the spanish we hit our first rapids...us genius' think we can paddled up them..so wrong we were. First boat does it and makes it..my boat tries but we end up dumping..not a full dump but we fell out. Third boat tries..they dump completly. The first dump i had experience on my 9 yrs of going out on trips. SO once we deal with all that and get everythign and everyone back in the boats we drag up those rapids and keep going. Anyways, about 5 hrs later there we were still dragging our 3 old towns(9 of us) up the Spanish river....water level was quite high last summer. People were exausted, needed lots of breaks. Fast water up to your waste and sometimes head deep is not easy when you have to drag. So it was getting late and we had to stop and take an exec. decision on what to do. Either keep going and try and get to the end of the Spanish, which was sketch seeing how it was starting to get dark. OR go back to a campsite we had just passed 100 m back. We chose option number two. Finally getting an oportunity to hop in the boats and have an easy paddle back to that campsite. Some things are soaking wet from the dump earlier on in the day, some maps pretty much ruined. It was a very long and quite tiresome day. We laid everythign out to try and get dry..and we were all sitting by the fire on our tiny little campsite and we feel like some ho-cho(hot chocolate)Gill is making it and has the nalgene with the hot water sitting on the ground between her feet. and as she was pouring the powder into the nalg it fell..boiling water going all over her foot. sort of like that survivor moment a fews years ago...very scary, its blistering right away..looks as painful as things get. she was trying so hard to hold back her tears, but there was only so much pain she could take. It was quite the day for day 6 of 42. gave us a look ahead that it was going to be a long long trip..but something i will never ever forget. |
pine_sap
Member
Post Number: 2
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 6:29 am: |
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Another reason why no one should be walking in bare feet or sandals near the camp fire. |
tess
Member
Post Number: 21
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 8:13 am: |
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sikku, I had the same experience with canoes falling on my head when the yoke broke...didn't put me to the ground...but it did rattle my brain!!
ghislaine, that must of been some trip...42 days, wow! Tough start though 
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ghislaine
Member
Post Number: 7
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 4:31 pm: |
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she wasn't by the fire in bare feet..but ya it is one disadvantage when you have sandals as dry shoes.
ya it was a rough start but it led to so many more crazy adventures..such as 3 of us having to hitch hike in an 18-wheeler in order to get her to a doctor in Gogama. what a cool little town though...they acted like we were celebraties when we got there. it had been a while since they met any new people. it was an extremely tiny town!! |
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