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| TuscaroraBorealis |
12/11/2016 04:43PM
New Trip Report posted by TuscaroraBorealis
Trip Name: Quintet finds Quiet solitude on Quadga.
Entry Point: 75
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| SaganagaJoe |
12/13/2016 09:21PM
How do you get this many trips in? Thanks for another great report!
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| Pinetree |
12/15/2016 08:30PM
Nice report and great detail. Glad to see from your photos not all of the big trees burnt on Quadga.
I was on the Island river on a solo trip the day of the big fire. I was camping just downstream from the entrance of the Little Isabella into the Isabella and about 10 AM I looked toward like Lake three area and it looked like a atomic bomb explosion with clouds billowing extremely high. I had a hunch I better head out. On the way out a huge bull moose and cow were sitting in the Little Isabella river cooling off. Got to the parking lot and forest service already had taped it off with yellow caution tape.
Drove down toward the Island river on the Tomahawk road and at the bridge ashes were flying everywhere and forestry was evacuating people from Isabella lake.
I have to get back up there.
Things happen when I go there tho. Previous time about a year earlier got caught in Like a Oct. 10th blizzard and at least a half a foot of snow fell. Actually very pretty but wet.
One of my other trips there I left one day early from camping on the Island river for no reason at all on July 3rd in 1999 the day before the big wind storm that flatten everything. Go figure?
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| boonie |
12/15/2016 08:43PM
Thanks, nice report, TB. It brought back memories of the 2010 trip my brother I did entering at Little Isabella and going to Quadga. It was a really cool entry back then and we stayed at the campsite that accessed the Pow Wow Trail and took a hike west from there. It was really nice before the fire and had a very remote feeling. We also saw one pair of paddlers on the Little Isabella paddling in, but otherwise had it to ourselves for the week. I've been wondering what it was like afterwards.
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| boonie |
12/16/2016 11:26AM
When we exited at Little Isabella, there were a bunch of grouse hunters in the parking lot.
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| TuscaroraBorealis |
12/14/2016 04:51PM
This was a short one. But, it helped that the company I work for had shut down that entire week.
Actually, we normally do at least 3 BWCA trips per paddling season. This year we did 3 but scaled our fall trip back (since our daughter started school). But, yes we feel very blessed to be able to enjoy that much time in canoe country.
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| missmolly |
12/14/2016 06:02PM
Heckuva fine trip report. Great narration and photos. Love the turtle shell shot!
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| TuscaroraBorealis |
12/15/2016 03:45PM
FOG51,
We're already way ahead of ya. This was our third year of padding our 3 seat Souris River canoe. Also we've upgraded our camp chairs as well as some other kitchen items & Aurora has a new CCS rucksack (that she needs to grow into).  
....of course the clothes are a yearly update. :)
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| FOG51 |
12/15/2016 01:34AM
As usual a great report and great pictures. It is a real joy to watch your little "yard ape" grow up on your BWCA trips. I still love the picture of her and the inch worm [from a previous trip report]. Looks like you better be watching for a 3 seater canoe in the next few years, plus possibly a bigger tent, more packs, bigger cook set, and lots of bigger clothes. FRED
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| Pinetree |
12/15/2016 09:17PM
quote boonie: "Thanks, nice report, TB. It brought back memories of the 2010 trip my brother I did entering at Little Isabella and going to Quadga. It was a really cool entry back then and we stayed at the campsite that accessed the Pow Wow Trail and took a hike west from there. It was really nice before the fire and had a very remote feeling. We also saw one pair of paddlers on the Little Isabella paddling in, but otherwise had it to ourselves for the week. I've been wondering what it was like afterwards."
From the campsite you stayed at in the fall we wold stay at that site and than walk the Pow Wow for Ruff grouse.
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