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cofit
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03/22/2020 10:08AM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
I'm sure everyone on here is quiet as church mice while camping but they say confession is good for the soul, so I will admit to an intemperate response at getting left in the stink hole during a game of cribbage or laughing out loud at a partners' misfortunes or otherwise being less quiet than I could be. I apologize to the wilderness gods and to those who might have heard me over the years.

But the main topic is about those times when you were trying to be quiet and things just didn't work out. The thread about Ahsub lake on the fishing forum triggered a few memories of times I'd been through there. Back in the day, in an aluminum canoe, my partner and I were aiming for Ahsub for the last night of an October trip.

Gorgeous fall afternoon, as we noodled through Jitterbug, took the portage and pushed off onto Ahsub, headed for the campsite behind the island. Dead calm, cool evening mist rising off the water, perfectly still evening and we were just lilly-dipping about 20 feet off shore and managed to find a rock a couple inches below the surface. Needless to say, the perfectly quiet evening was shattered as the canoe ground to a halt centered on the rock and then we had to get off of it. To my ears, folks on the far end of Disappointment might have heard it.

There have also been the occasional sounds of an aluminum pot dropped and bouncing down the rocks while fetching water and the less than graceful shouldering of a canoe, although that's better now that there's Kevlar involved.

Am I the only klutz paddling around out there or is anyone else willing to admit an occasional lapse?
 
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03/22/2020 01:20PM  
I once heard someone loudly scrape an aluminum canoe across some rocks and one of the paddlers said to the other, "That sure doesn't sound like water to me". I didn't mind the sound when it came with the humor.
 
03/22/2020 01:59PM  
I may have been a bit loud that evening a hook landed in the back of my ear as I was casting.
Younguns might have learned a word or three....
 
03/22/2020 02:55PM  
jcavenagh: "Younguns might have learned a word or three...."


I wasn't paddling at the time, but a canoe was involved. Searching the garage floor for a dropped screw, I raised my head into the bow plate of a Grumman 17' whitewater canoe and uttered an oath or two. My son, then about three, was within earshot. His mother explained that his father sometimes said things that he shouldn't repeat, and gave him a cookie to reinforce the lesson. Later in the day she overheard him explaining to his stuffed Eeyore, "You don't say dammit if you want a cookie!"

TZ
 
03/22/2020 05:36PM  
A few years back I was trucking along the West Pike-Pine portage and I must have been making a ton of racket because when I made it to the end I saw a pack laying on the ground and it’s owner was hiding in the woods, certain that a big bull moose was coming down the trail. He popped out with his partner, laughing out loud when they saw it was a guy with a canoe. It’s amazing how loud trees can be. I’ve had other, more clumsy moments, but thankfully I’m the only one that to observe the idiocy.

Tony
 
Savage Voyageur
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03/22/2020 06:54PM  
My two brothers grounded an aluminum canoe in the middle of a lake. It was so funny to my wife and I. They couldn’t get off the rock and one of them was going to have to get out of the canoe and get it off. You go, no you go, why should I go, because you were in the front and we supposed to be looking for rocks, and I’m the big brother and telling to to get out.
 
03/22/2020 07:19PM  
TrailZen: "
jcavenagh: "Younguns might have learned a word or three...."

I wasn't paddling at the time, but a canoe was involved. Searching the garage floor for a dropped screw, I raised my head into the bow plate of a Grumman 17' whitewater canoe and uttered an oath or two. My son, then about three, was within earshot. His mother explained that his father sometimes said things that he shouldn't repeat, and gave him a cookie to reinforce the lesson. Later in the day she overheard him explaining to his stuffed Eeyore, "You don't say dammit if you want a cookie!"

TZ"

That's priceless! Made me laugh out loud. Thanks!
 
jhb8426
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03/22/2020 11:11PM  
Savage Voyageur: "My two brothers grounded an aluminum canoe in the middle of a lake. It was so funny to my wife and I. They couldn’t get off the rock..."


That happened to me in my Magic coming thru the narrows from the north end of Sawbill. Paddled on to a rock the size of a small straight truck. Had to get out and move the boat to the edge of the rock. Uttered a few choice words to my friend ahead of me. I don't think anyone else was around.
 
JimmyJustice
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03/23/2020 06:59AM  
After having mastered walking stealthily in the dark so as to not wake my parents as I came home well past curfew, my mom set the vacuum cleaner on the steps for me to trip over in the dark. I did, and the ensuing words surely woke my parents up. Only to be matched by the noise made when I saw two garbage bags on my bed - for failing to take out the garbage that day. Parents knew I was safe and lesson's learned. Most sounds are a mixed bag.
 
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