Okay, this is just for fun - If you could go on a trip with 3 other people living or dead (other than your own family) who would you choose?

Off to top of my head..
-John Muir
-Teddy Roosevelt
-Les Stroud

Michelangelo: To see, albeit by osmosis, the north woods through his eyes.

Lincoln: to see him glean some peace from such a place. Lawdy, the great man deserves it.

Ernest Becker: to talk about the real things round a campfire.

John Wayne, Dean Martin, and since Lincoln is already mentioned....Jimmy Stewart for balance and bow partner!

quote Aldy1: "If you could go on a trip with 3 other people living or dead"

I choose dead as long as I don't have to portage them.

Alan

How about the best fishing youtuber.... Aaron Wiebe
and this lake trout/pike guide from instagram..... Zack Brown and quetico mike to show us his secret spots!

Am I the only one thinking like Miss January, February, and March?

-My best friend (my wife) who is one of the best people you will ever meet.
-Nicola Tesla, who doesn't think it would be fun to take one of the smartest men that ever lived who was a little crazy, alcoholic and introverted out of their element?
-Jesus, well because he is Jesus!

Call it 2 separate dream trips:

Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, and Sig Olson

Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Rutstrum, And Clark (not Lewis, because he was nuts).

quote billconner: "Am I the only one thinking like Miss January, February, and March? "

Not a bad list. HAHA

Okay, if we're going for eye candy:

Daniel Craig: unlike Miss January, he would pull his weight (and mine) on a portage

Timothy Dalton: the other steamy Bond. James Bond.

an old goat: no, I don't mean BillConner. I mean a literal, old goat. I love their eyes, those horizontal slits and think it would be quite a rush to share a tent with one and awaken at night to those alien eyes staring at me!

Niccolo Paganini for the music.
Mark Twain for the stories.
and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce to learn.

My all western frontier discovery & history dream team:

William Clark - I've always been fascinated by the Corps of Discovery and would love to hear the stories first hand.

George Wheeler - He was the father of the USGS and was tasked with mapping everything West of the 100th meridian.

John Johnston aka Liver Eating Johnson - He was the basis of the story told in the movie Jeremiah Johnson.

quote rthompson: "-My best friend (my wife) who is one of the best people you will ever meet.
-Nicola Tesla, who doesn't think it would be fun to take one of the smartest men that ever lived who was a little crazy, alcoholic and introverted out of their element?
-Jesus, well because he is Jesus!"

You would only need 1 tandem canoe...Jesus could just walk next to the canoe while you paddle.

I'm pretty darn fortunate to have been on some trips with some darn good trip mates, some of them right here. Maxxbhp, Onematch, theBob.com, Yellowcanoe, have some great stories are are fun folks to have in camp.

BUT, since we're talking "Fantasy," here we go; Jesus, I would be too much in awe, it just wouldn't work. But I'd love to see the country with Sigurd Olson. I can imagine paddling Sag before roads in a W&C canoe with Sig.

I think Kevin Callan would be a "Hoot" to be around on the water? He's so funny!

Okay, now a 3rd. As someone mentioned, Mark Twain would have some great "Stories" for around the campfire. But heck, I already have Kevin Callan! They say "Laughter is the best medicine," but I don't want to "Overdose" (LOL)! So how about another canoeist I felt a kinship to, Bill Mason? Heck, I might even learn something? And between he and Kevin Callan I might start pronouncing "Portage" "Por-taahhj" (LOL)?

I sure wish you would have let me have five, then I could have had Mark Twain and Jerry McKinnis (The Fishin' Hole) too!

quote Alan Gage: "

quote Aldy1: "If you could go on a trip with 3 other people living or dead"

I choose dead as long as I don't have to portage them.


Alan"

Alan, for an anti social you are hilarious! Maybe your not anti social at all but like me, just want to get a little less complexity.....a little peace and quiet....besides, who can go for a month?

Who would I take?........I sort of liked the John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart suggestion........Hey what about Judge Judy? ("How big was that fish really? Look at me, uncross your arms and wipe that stupid smile off your face"LOL)

quote hooky: "George Wheeler - He was the father of the USGS and was tasked with mapping everything West of the 100th meridian.
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Interesting, when I think of giants of the USGS' history, I don't go to Wheeler in my top 3, even if he hired some of the others. They would be:

Clarence King: first director of the USGS and also part of fascinating adventures surveying the west. His attempts to climb Mt. Whitney are the thing of legend and his personal life was fascinating. He lived one life as a powerful government official and geologist and another passing as black to marry his wife.

John Wesley Powell: second director and famous for his exploration of the Colorado River. So, the guy was good with boats.

G.K. Gilbert: the best scientific mind, with incredible breadth. I have his photo on my desk. A photo I inherited from one of our program's great geologists. Pulling out one of my old books, I love this quote from him,
"It is the natural and legitimate ambition of a properly constituted geologist to see a glacier, witness an eruption and feel an earthquake. The glacier is always ready, awaiting his visit; the eruption has a course to run, and alacrity only is needed to catch its more important phases; but the earthquake, unheralded and brief, may elude him through his entire lifetime. It had been my fortune to experience only a single weak tremor, and I had, moreover, been tantalized by narrowly missing the great Inyo earthquake of 1872 and the Alaska earthquake of 1899. When, therefore, I was awakened in Berkeley on the eighteenth of April last by a tumult of motions and noises, it was with unalloyed pleasure that I became aware that a vigorous earthquake was in progress."

BTW, his personal life was also interesting. He was in love with Alice Eastwood, a botanist, at the California Academy of Sciences. They initially didn't marry so that she could continue her career. After the 1906 earthquake, he went to map the fault north of San Francisco, perhaps choosing the area so that they could get out of town and pass as married while working together. She appears in one of his most famous photographs of the faulting. Eventually they decided to marry but he fell ill and passed away before getting back to California for the ceremony.

So that would be my USGS trio for a trip.

If one of them couldn't make it, Darwin could come.

My experience is that each person sees different things on a BW trip and so for my actual dream trip, I would go for variety:
G.K. Gilbert for the earth sciences
Darwin for biology (also a good geologist)
Vera Rubin for astronomy (passed away last year, arguably the finest astronomer and physicist not to win a Nobel Prize)

But now I sort of want to take Alice Eastwood so she and GK Gilbert could enjoy a camping trip at a time when they would no longer have to hide their relationship or think that she had to give up her career.

-Jesus, well because he is Jesus!"

Sure would help with the fishing. I already try the other side of the boat thing but it doesn't have the same effect when I do it for some reason.

And the weather.

All humor aside, that would be the trip of all trips. And I think He likes lakes. But in another sense I already take every canoe trip with Him, so....

Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills.

quote CrookedPaddle: "

quote rthompson: "-My best friend (my wife) who is one of the best people you will ever meet.
-Nicola Tesla, who doesn't think it would be fun to take one of the smartest men that ever lived who was a little crazy, alcoholic and introverted out of their element?
-Jesus, well because he is Jesus!"

You would only need 1 tandem canoe...Jesus could just walk next to the canoe while you paddle."

I don't know about bringing Jesus. You might have to portage across the lakes too.

I'd bring my college drinking buddies. I still go with some of them, but everything is just better with company I am comfortable around. It can be a little uncomfortable when a buddy brings someone from work that we've never met before.

All three are from this site.

quote Alan Gage: "

quote Aldy1: "If you could go on a trip with 3 other people living or dead"

I choose dead as long as I don't have to portage them.


Alan"

They say, zombies make good portage monkeys.

Hemingway, Jimmy Buffet, and John Adams. The only one I might trade out would be Jimmy Buffet and that would only be if our current pres could go just so I could listen in on Mr Adams and Mr Trump debating, I know it might destroy the experience of the wilderness but......

Jerry, Willie, Del, Jorma

quote Alan Gage: "

quote Aldy1: "If you could go on a trip with 3 other people living or dead"

I choose dead as long as I don't have to portage them.


Alan"

Heheheheh, got me to thinking about "The Cremation of Sam Mcgee" (LOL)!

"And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow;
And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low;
The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in;
And I'd often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin. "

You said other than my family so that leaves out my ultimate dream trip (my 3 brothers). Other than them, this would be a dream of a trip:

Bill Murray - because he's so damn funny. He'd have me in stitches around the campfire.

Neil Young - because he's my all-time favorite singer/songwriter and it'd be surreal to have him play some tunes around the campfire.

Scarlett Johansson - well...you said dream trip didn't you?

quote mc2mens: "You said other than my family so that leaves out my ultimate dream trip (my 3 brothers). Other than them, this would be a dream of a trip:


Bill Murray - because he's so damn funny. He'd have me in stitches around the campfire.

Neil Young - because he's my all-time favorite singer/songwriter and it'd be surreal to have him play some tunes around the campfire.

Scarlett Johansson - well...you said dream trip didn't you?"

Scar Jo is a bawdy, beery, brainy gal and would be fun around the campfire.

I guess I would want to hear stories from the villain's side of the coin for once...so... Cortez, Capone and Castro. They'd all be in one boat and I'd solo without turning my back.

There's also the humanitarian in me that says I should bring the leaders of the USA, ISIS and N. Korea a few days after ice out...that would just be a quick overnight-er though.

Either way I'd dress as Darth Vader and paint my paddle shaft glowing red so as to remain intimidating.

Al Lindner
Tenzing Norgay
Woody Guthrie
Dad

burt reynolds because he's cool and my wife wouldn't like me taking a trip with jennifer lawrence.