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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Listening Point - General Discussion Open paddle, evening of May 7 - Circle Pines, MN |
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05/05/2020 06:59PM
If you are interested in solo canoe freestyle paddling, I will be on Golden Lake in Circle Pines, Thursday evening, May 7, from 6:00 to 8:00pm. Feel free to come join me on the water. All should able to keep the appropriate distancing.
Dan Cooke
05/05/2020 09:04PM
Beginners are definitely welcome.
Straight shafted single blade paddles is the correct equipment for solo Freestyle. Paddles preferably with no dedicated powerface with smooth blade surfaces and thin edges so slices are effortless, without a tendency to head off in constant vector.
If you can kneel, and have kneeling pad that would be great.
Life jackets should be worn.
Straight shafted single blade paddles is the correct equipment for solo Freestyle. Paddles preferably with no dedicated powerface with smooth blade surfaces and thin edges so slices are effortless, without a tendency to head off in constant vector.
If you can kneel, and have kneeling pad that would be great.
Life jackets should be worn.
Dan Cooke
05/05/2020 10:12PM
Hey Dan... if you're on the surface in your canoe and I'm directly under you, but six feet deep due to a sudden urge to view the fish, that still counts as appropriate social distancing, doesn't it? :)
"Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir
05/05/2020 10:31PM
Kinda an anti social position being 6' below the surface that would be short lived i feel. :)
Viewing fish in that body of water would nearly have to be a braille experience as nothing would be visible that you couldn't touch within a foot of your eyes. Better to grab a can of worms a fishing pole with a hook and bobber and catch some sunnies; if seeing fish would be of interest.
It was good to have you over for a paddle last year! Will have to see how this year pans out.
Viewing fish in that body of water would nearly have to be a braille experience as nothing would be visible that you couldn't touch within a foot of your eyes. Better to grab a can of worms a fishing pole with a hook and bobber and catch some sunnies; if seeing fish would be of interest.
It was good to have you over for a paddle last year! Will have to see how this year pans out.
Dan Cooke
05/06/2020 07:09PM
I'll get there one of these nights. Where you are usually canoeing is just up the road from where I work. But tomorrow night I have planned to go fiddlehead, solomons seal and ramp hunting.
"It is more important to live for the possibilities that lie ahead than to die in despair over what has been lost." -Barry Lopez
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