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01/01/2020 09:05PM
The Spartans are still here. We have our reservation for a cabin at Rockwood again this coming summer. Anna wants to be sure she gets a trip up north before she heads off to college.
In the meantime, I will be having open heart surgery in four weeks, so I think there will be a lot of recuperation and rehab after that is accomplished.
01/02/2020 02:11AM
Still here as the new year and new decade begins. Best wishes to Spartan2 for your upcoming your surgery and subsequent rehab.
No wilderness camping trips planned for 2020 just as in recent past years. However, just starting to plan renting a cabin off Gunflint Trail in August with two former Quetico tripping partners and, I hope, their spouse who have never been in BWCA or Quetico. Planning on doing easy day trips into the BWCA. Seems somewhat ironic to me, but I'll having to rent a suitable tandem now that my Mohawk Solo14 is only canoe I have left after selling the rest over the last several years.
No wilderness camping trips planned for 2020 just as in recent past years. However, just starting to plan renting a cabin off Gunflint Trail in August with two former Quetico tripping partners and, I hope, their spouse who have never been in BWCA or Quetico. Planning on doing easy day trips into the BWCA. Seems somewhat ironic to me, but I'll having to rent a suitable tandem now that my Mohawk Solo14 is only canoe I have left after selling the rest over the last several years.
01/02/2020 08:26AM
KarlBAndersen1: "Here - until I'm kicked out.
First trip 10 June. We go in Kawishiwi Lake.
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So cool to see the grit that comes before your glorious knives!
I'm still here and here's my workshop, looking unlike Karl's, but I also shape it with steel and I'm working minerals too.
01/02/2020 09:55AM
That's me on the right... enjoying a cold beverage with Wally13 at Octoberfest in Appleton, WI a couple years ago.
Happy New Year everyone!
01/02/2020 09:14PM
We're here too. The coonhound and I are getting more wrinkles and my knee hurts sometimes but we're here and paddling. Pic of me last summer and Zoey last month on one of our unusually warm December days...justpaddlin.
Wishing you all happiness and safe paddling in 2020.
Wishing you all happiness and safe paddling in 2020.
01/02/2020 10:00PM
MichiganMan here as well. Great thread! I'll be heading back to the Q in 2020, not sure when or where. But I literally think about the Q every single day. Amazing the grip that place can have on one's soul.
Good luck Spartan2 with the surgery from a fellow Spartan. Prayers headed your way.
01/03/2020 12:06AM
01/03/2020 12:32PM
Still here. Happy 2020 all!
01/07/2020 08:57AM
Hello fellow paddlers - we are excited for a new year. Added a couple new canoes in the 16' range, hopefully the day trippers will appreciate the lighter weight. I'm planning a trip from Gunflint Lake to Rose in May, solo or maybe a friend from the cities will come up. Cannot wait for open water!
01/07/2020 10:52AM
Still here, but probably not going to do a back country paddle in the BWCA this year.
Memorial day timeframe will see my wife and me on Isle Royale with some time in Grand Marais or maybe something on the Gunflint for a night or two.
The only paddling trip on the docket so far is six days on the Upper Missouri through White Canyon and the Badlands.
01/07/2020 09:06PM
Checking in! Boy Scout trip planned for July. Three groups - one group will be approximately an 80 mile (paddle and portage) trip, one group focused on fishing and the last group going to Johnson Falls and some Canada viewing. Can't wait to introduce a bunch more people to this awesome area!
01/07/2020 11:58PM
Happy New Year! Can't wait for the next canoeing seasons. 
01/13/2020 01:02AM
JB is still alive and kicking. Just got out of the hospital surgery number 10. I see many new names and a few old timers like me.
All I can say is, you live everyday, you only die once. Do what you can while you can. You don’t want to look back and say “ I wish I would have...”.
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Me and the legend
All I can say is, you live everyday, you only die once. Do what you can while you can. You don’t want to look back and say “ I wish I would have...”.
Me and the legend
01/15/2020 04:36PM
Still here. Still lurking more than posting. A little late to checking in as we just rang in the New Year in Dublin. As usual we have lots of time planned in canoe country for 2020 and we often add in long weekends when we can get away.
We'll be up at the end of the Gunflint Trail for Valentine's weekend and get in plenty of snowshoeing and skiing. Car camping in the Teardrop over Memorial Day weekend at Sawbill. 4th of July week somewhere... likely a canoe trip but maybe just Teardrop camping. I haven't planned it yet. Hubby & I may have to play rock, paper scissors for that one. I prefer full blown canoe trip and he's leaning towards Teardrop. Rockwood cabin week in August with friends from Chicago. Sept canoe trip with hubby & Luft out of Big Sag - looping through Red Rock and out American Point.
Getting excited about all of the trips just listing them... might have to pull out my maps when I get home from work tonight :-)
Happy New Year!
2019 Trip with Hubby, Luft & me - daytrip to Frost
We'll be up at the end of the Gunflint Trail for Valentine's weekend and get in plenty of snowshoeing and skiing. Car camping in the Teardrop over Memorial Day weekend at Sawbill. 4th of July week somewhere... likely a canoe trip but maybe just Teardrop camping. I haven't planned it yet. Hubby & I may have to play rock, paper scissors for that one. I prefer full blown canoe trip and he's leaning towards Teardrop. Rockwood cabin week in August with friends from Chicago. Sept canoe trip with hubby & Luft out of Big Sag - looping through Red Rock and out American Point.
Getting excited about all of the trips just listing them... might have to pull out my maps when I get home from work tonight :-)
Happy New Year!
2019 Trip with Hubby, Luft & me - daytrip to Frost
01/17/2020 10:02PM
ducks: "Still around lurking but not posting nearly as much as I used to. Having a 1 year old at age 48 is tiring. But we love introducing Bruin to the outdoors.
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Oh, ducks! How can that baby be 18 months old already?? He is so cute, and it seems that Bruin is a suitable name. He looks quite tough and ready to tackle the wilderness! Thanks for posting a photo--I have been wondering how he was growing.
01/20/2020 12:40PM
BeaV: "Yup...here. I'm second on the left, back row, hanging out with some good paddle friends as we put 2019 to bed a little early. Good year with lots of fun!
Hey paddle friends - jump in and ID yourselves with this photo if you want.
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I'am still here no matter what BeaV has up his sleeve!!! To the right of BeaV in this pic...
01/24/2020 09:25AM
Wow over three weeks into the new year and I've just checked in. I guess that says it all. No complaints here. Just full of hope for a new year.
Been a while since I've BW tripped or since my canoe has touched water, but life is looking good. Turn 70 this year and have put some cancer issues behind me with one still ongoing, but under control. Lower back problems are showing improvement and have been talking with the old canoe partner about a trip this year. No set plan at this time.
We have gone round and round about how to do this and this stubborn Norwegian is saying if this might be my last trip I want to actually enjoy the portage, paddle, camp experience from different places like we used to. The last few years I've gotten into improving my photography and would plan this trip around taking my gear and having a blast that way.
2020 is a work in progress as am I. Still love getting out my paddling CDs from the One Match Band and singing along. I guess my singing is a work in progress too.
Have a great year all.
01/28/2020 12:49PM
hello all, yep still lurking. heading to texas soon. looking forward to our new travels and destinations, it's a HUGE country.
oh, i'll be parked at campsites up north this year with my solo, tandem, mountain bikes as well.
we plan on driving around Superior, pulling our home on wheels.
another trip to moab utah, for some tremendous mtbiking, and then off to california to see carol's friends.
have a great, safe paddling season, and when you see our tab, stop in for a beverage. cheers :)
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