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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Group Forum: Wabakimi I am homesick for Wabakimi |
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06/24/2020 02:12PM
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Me, too...My buddy, Peter, wanted to go this year for the first time in several years. He was working out and everything. Now he is furloughed from work, stuck at home, and not a happy camper.
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Here is a pic of our last group trip to Wab....
Me, too...My buddy, Peter, wanted to go this year for the first time in several years. He was working out and everything. Now he is furloughed from work, stuck at home, and not a happy camper.
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Here is a pic of our last group trip to Wab....
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06/24/2020 05:21PM
I was just saying it's a tough summer. After going to Wabakimi for at least a week for the last 14 years, this year 'probably' not. Even though I'm Canadian, and there are trips heading up that way that are looking for a paddler, my new knee will not let me go right now. Maybe by early September it will be strong enough, but progress is slow. In the meantime I have this forum, the FOW website and the FOW Facebook page to keep me going, and this...
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06/24/2020 08:34PM
Yes, I'll join this support group as well :). I had a plan for a trip into the West side of Wabakimi all laid out with some faint hope that I'd get in there by the end of the summer. Realistically, it's not happenin' this summer. I love the BWCA and I'm glad for the short 1 week trip that I just did.... but it's not the same.....
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
06/25/2020 10:46AM
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Yep, Even when we worked too late in the day (those late June days...) and had to camp on the portage. Where the hell else can you camp on a portage and not worry about it, 'cause no one else is coming along until it is mapped...
Yep, Even when we worked too late in the day (those late June days...) and had to camp on the portage. Where the hell else can you camp on a portage and not worry about it, 'cause no one else is coming along until it is mapped...
06/25/2020 10:52AM
In 2018 John and Dick and Martin and I cut a portage out of the bottom of Granite Lake then went to explore the next portage at the other end of the next lake. By time we came back four hours later a party of four was coming out of the portage and loading their canoes. We worked on that sucker for four and a half days and thought no one's coming through here. We had probably just finished the end when they were approaching the start. Crazy.
06/25/2020 11:13AM
goatroti: "In 2017 John and Dick and Martin and I cut a portage out of the bottom of Granite Lake then went to explore the next portage at the other end of the next lake. By time we came back four hours later a party of four was coming out of the portage and loading their canoes. We worked on that sucker for four and a half days and thought no one's coming through here. We had probably just finished the end when they were approaching the start. Crazy.
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Lucky bastards! Did they give you a tip? Ha ha
06/25/2020 01:46PM
Portage99: "goatroti: "In 2018 John and Dick and Martin and I cut a portage out of the bottom of Granite Lake then went to explore the next portage at the other end of the next lake. By time we came back four hours later a party of four was coming out of the portage and loading their canoes. We worked on that sucker for four and a half days and thought no one's coming through here. We had probably just finished the end when they were approaching the start. Crazy. "
Lucky bastards! Did they give you a tip? Ha ha"
Strange thing is we got to chatting and they were from Toronto, like me, and they knew two of my neighbors from up the street. Small world.
06/28/2020 10:22AM
goatroti: "In 2018 John and Dick and Martin and I cut a portage out of the bottom of Granite Lake then went to explore the next portage at the other end of the next lake. By time we came back four hours later a party of four was coming out of the portage and loading their canoes. We worked on that sucker for four and a half days and thought no one's coming through here. We had probably just finished the end when they were approaching the start. Crazy.
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This was going to be part of my route this summer. I was planning to take my 21-in Corona saw and trimmer just in case. I'd suppose after three years, there might be some parts of that portage and others further west towards Windfall that need some clearing!
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
06/28/2020 12:09PM
Our crews went from the bottom of Granite to Van Ness, Cache and Onamakawash. The route out of the bottom of Granite going up Ballast Creek was non existent after the first 200m as it was August and the was practically no water flowing into Granite. Lot's of dragging the canoe upstream going that way.
07/02/2020 06:40AM
Yeah this is going to be a long haul.
It’s interesting they mention the changes that occurred after 9/11. I remember traveling between Washington state and BC in the early 90s. Many times, they just waved the buses through. Ah, sweet innocence lost...
A vaccine would help. Hopefully, they can eventually can concoct an effective one.
It’s interesting they mention the changes that occurred after 9/11. I remember traveling between Washington state and BC in the early 90s. Many times, they just waved the buses through. Ah, sweet innocence lost...
A vaccine would help. Hopefully, they can eventually can concoct an effective one.
02/24/2021 10:56AM
Any of our Canadian neighbors planning a trip to the park this year (since us 'yanks' won't be getting in any time soon :)? I'd love to hear where folks are going/planning to go. I'd love to get to Wendell Beckwith's cabin on Whitewater someday before it completely disintegrates.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
02/24/2021 06:10PM
HighnDry: "Any of our Canadian neighbors planning a trip to the park this year (since us 'yanks' won't be getting in any time soon :)? I'd love to hear where folks are going/planning to go. I'd love to get to Wendell Beckwith's cabin on Whitewater someday before it completely disintegrates."
I'd love to hear them as well. I had trip all mapped out on the crown lands west of Savant lake and all necessary maps ordered from F.O.W last year that I then put off till this year and will now have to put off till next year.
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03/17/2021 08:49AM
Well, the waiting may be good for the soul but it's tough to wait! I asked Kevin C. during his first presentation if he was going into the west side of Wabakimi this season and he replied that he and Andy have a trip in the planning stage....it was a bittersweet moment -- I've got a trip in via a new entry and it isn't happening this year either! At least somebody gets to go.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
03/17/2021 09:01AM
goatroti: "Sorry P99, but after the Meaghen/Harry thing, even Canada is not so high on Queens right now. Maybe Ms. High Grand Imperial Exalted Poobah would be a more acceptable title on your diplomatic request.
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Hmmm...guess I'm back to working on my asylum application.
04/02/2021 01:22PM
I've been watching these too. They are well done. The videos are also making me get out my maps and see what kind of route I could do in that area with only 9 or 10 days. Not happening this year, but maybe.....
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
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