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Trip Report - 2007 Flying Start to Quetico

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Date/Time: 04/29/2024 10:06AM

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Trip Report - 2007 Flying Start to Quetico

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TrailZen	03/14/2021 12:49PM Spartan2: "It amazes me that I missed this one earlier! GREAT trip report, and I love your photos, too. I realize now that we missed a bunch of pictographs on our only trip in this area. . .hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn't it. Not at all surprised that you won the Trip Report contest with this report. Loved it!" Thanks so much, Spartan2--we revisited several of our trips by reading Tia's journal entries during our 2020 COVID isolation, and have traveled vicariously by reading trip reports by you and others. We're both 70 this year, and hope to get a few more BWCA/Q trips in before we hang up the paddles. Rumors of Canada perhaps opening the border in September are certainly appealing. Yes, hindsight often bites us--near the end of our 2019 trip we discovered that we had camped less than a half mile from a picto site we hadn't seen before--now we have to get back to Quetico's Trant Lake someday. TZ
Spartan2	03/12/2021 07:54AM It amazes me that I missed this one earlier! GREAT trip report, and I love your photos, too. I realize now that we missed a bunch of pictographs on our only trip in this area. . .hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn't it. Not at all surprised that you won the Trip Report contest with this report. Loved it!
TrailZen	02/09/2021 01:44PM smoke11: "Awesome trip report! Thanks for sharing." Glad you enjoyed it--Thanks for the kind words. TZ
smoke11	02/09/2021 11:07AM Awesome trip report! Thanks for sharing.
TrailZen	02/06/2021 01:39PM Rand, I hope you make it through the deep freeze. We're in western North Carolina, and have a winter storm warning for the night, including 3-5 inches of snow. I suspect you're 20-25 degrees colder (42 here as I write this) and facing more snow than we are--stay safe and warm! We've been single-portaging for over 40 years, but those days may end soon--we both hit 70 this year, and starting out with 60-65 pounds portage weight each may start hurting! We're hoping Quetico might open in late summer, but NC's vaccine distribution system is off to a poor start and I suspect vaccines may be a requirement for travel if the Q does open. It was a pleasant surprise to run into Darryl and Isaac in Ely after the trip and catch up on each team's travels. We enjoyed coffee and pie with them at The Chocolate Moose at Piragis, made map notes/corrections, and marked more lakes for future exploration. TZ
rdgbwca	02/05/2021 01:46PM Just read this one too as a February deep freeze is about to set in. Looks like the single portage is key to covering distance. Kind of cool that you met up with the father and son back in Ely after sharing a camp site. I bet they were grateful not to have to go farther in the dark that night.
TrailZen	12/28/2020 11:09AM OldGreyGoose: "Just got around to reading this. Awesome! --Goose" Thanks, Goose! It was a great trip. We've spent lots of 2020 evenings reliving trips like this one since we couldn't hit Quetico this year. TZ
OldGreyGoose	12/27/2020 04:59PM Just got around to reading this. Awesome! --Goose
TrailZen	01/30/2019 10:15AM johno: "I enjoyed the report. I didn't realize how many of those lakes have pictographs, and your photographs were great! So, how many times have you been through Joyce Lake? I still smile at the thought of those size 14 hiking boots :-)" Thanks, Johno! In the '80s we picked up "Pictographs of Quetico" pamphlet (1984 printing) which documents 30 pictograph sites in the park. We haven't hit them all yet, but have a couple more sites planned for our 2019 visit. Hope to finally find/photograph the sites off Montgomery Lake, and to visit the site in Payne Lake's Ahsin Bay that we missed when paddling through the lake in 2017. Not sure how many times we've paddled through Joyce, but at least four visits come to mind. Yes, the size 14 boots memory always generates smiles!
TrailZen	01/30/2019 10:14AM walllee: "Great report ! " Thanks, Walllee!
johno	01/29/2019 03:09PM I enjoyed the report. I didn't realize how many of those lakes have pictographs, and your photographs were great! So, how many times have you been through Joyce Lake? I still smile at the thought of those size 14 hiking boots :-)
walllee	01/27/2019 03:50PM Great report !
TrailZen	01/23/2019 11:33AM Driftless: "Awesome report!" Thanks, Driftless!
TrailZen	01/23/2019 11:28AM timatkn: "Exciting trip, incorporated a little of everything. Fly in, tow, message jars, picto and petroglyphs, waterfalls...I am sure I missed something, but you didn’t :). You covered a lot of ground too, truly impressive! Thanks for sharing. T" Thanks for the kind review--not sure we could do it all again on retiree's budget, but it was a grand trip. Because of our drive distance, we try to do 10-day trips each visit, and try to average at least 10 miles per day. The 2007 trip theme was pictographs; we've also done trips to hit 'named portages'.
TrailZen	01/23/2019 11:27AM boonie: "Enjoyed reading your report. Thanks. " and thanks for working through a multi-screen report!
TrailZen	01/23/2019 11:23AM TomT: "My knee is a little sore and I have a stiff back after reading that. Holy moly you guys can really cover the ground. I kept waiting for a lay over but it never came! That was a fantastic route. The maps and pics really added a lot. A perfect read for a cold winter evening. " Thanks! The report was a good project for several cold evenings, too, and adding the maps keeps readers from having to dig out their own maps to track the route.
Driftless	01/21/2019 10:54AM Awesome report!
timatkn	01/20/2019 08:17PM Exciting trip, incorporated a little of everything. Fly in, tow, message jars, picto and petroglyphs, waterfalls...I am sure I missed something, but you didn’t :) You covered a lot of ground too, truly impressive! Thanks for sharing. T
boonie	01/20/2019 07:34PM Enjoyed reading your report. Thanks.
TomT	01/20/2019 06:53PM My knee is a little sore and I have a stiff back after reading that. Holy moly you guys can really cover the ground. I kept waiting for a lay over but it never came! That was a fantastic route. The maps and pics really added a lot. A perfect read for a cold winter evening.
TrailZen	01/20/2019 05:40AM New Trip Report posted by TrailZen Trip Name: 2007 Flying Start to Quetico. Entry Point: Quetico Click Here to View Trip Report