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01/25/2025 10:44AM
A lot of us feel the same way, Stumpy. The days of "Jackfish the Sherpa" are far in the rearview mirror. :)
"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
01/25/2025 11:16AM
The Little Red Engine(Grumpy)
As he neared the top of the portage, which had so discouraged the other voyaguers, Grumpy went more slowly. However, he still kept saying, "I think I can, I think I can".
finally reaching the top by drawing on bravery and then went on down the trail, congratulating himself by saying, "I thought I could, I thought I could".
Just one more time"True Grit"
As he neared the top of the portage, which had so discouraged the other voyaguers, Grumpy went more slowly. However, he still kept saying, "I think I can, I think I can".
finally reaching the top by drawing on bravery and then went on down the trail, congratulating himself by saying, "I thought I could, I thought I could".
Just one more time"True Grit"
01/25/2025 01:00PM
Another old fart with some great memories. Always nice to stumble upon some photo or what you might find and have a positive flashback. Thanks for the post.
I would grunt some work song I picked up from a movie where trolls were working in a mine like the cadence we used marching in the army. Still do that sometimes.
I would grunt some work song I picked up from a movie where trolls were working in a mine like the cadence we used marching in the army. Still do that sometimes.
01/25/2025 07:12PM
I'm with you Stumpy. Turned 63 last fall.
Still carrying the Old Town Penobscot that I had in 1994. However, 30 years ago I used to also carry a heavy Duluth pack. I could easily jerk the canoe up and hump over the goat trail into Fourtown.
I was taught about the conservation of mass in school, but I swear that damn canoe is heavier than when I bought it.
I resolved myself to an extra portage a few years back, but I'm still too cheap to buy one of those fancy kevlar canoes. I still really like the old beast.
Still carrying the Old Town Penobscot that I had in 1994. However, 30 years ago I used to also carry a heavy Duluth pack. I could easily jerk the canoe up and hump over the goat trail into Fourtown.
I was taught about the conservation of mass in school, but I swear that damn canoe is heavier than when I bought it.
I resolved myself to an extra portage a few years back, but I'm still too cheap to buy one of those fancy kevlar canoes. I still really like the old beast.
01/26/2025 12:03AM
Well I’m 54…so close to where you were at in age back then…when I was 34, I could have and did do similar…now at 54 no way. So you are way ahead of me…as usual :)
Sometimes you gotta learn how to enjoy your activity a different way is what I am finding.
T
Sometimes you gotta learn how to enjoy your activity a different way is what I am finding.
T
“Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau
01/26/2025 10:04AM
Yep - Knees hurt, muscle has turned to belly fat and in general i've decided alot of the lakes I used to paddle through on my way to "better" lakes will suit me just fine. 8 hr travel day used to be the norm. I'll be 49 this year and a 4-5 hour travel day suits me just fine.
"The beer brewed here. It is used to make the brewed beer, during is define, ooh Earth Rider. Thanks for the Great Lakes." - Biden
01/26/2025 11:17AM
TrailZen: "Just curious, what were you eating for breakfast back then???
TZ"
I know I had oatmeal that morning....fast get away breakfast as we were coming out of Sunday Lake.
Bacon and eggs a few days on the trip.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly
01/26/2025 11:02PM
I was 44 at the time, with my 2 daughters, and we had an old plastic canoe that weighed 90 pounds. I was huffing and puffing and stopped at a the Clearwater portage to West Pike to rest off to the side. It's a big wide portage with lots of room. And while we're sitting on a log, a short guy at least in his 50's pulls up in the exact same canoe, puts a huge pack on his back that had to be 70 pounds and then flips that 90 pound canoe over his head like it was a feather and marches down the trail like he was without a care. My daughters looked at me and I said slowly and very much in awe, "That, right there, is a real man!"
I feel the same reading this note. Respect!
We did end up single portaging a 38 portage loop several years later out Missing Link, but I hurt my knee on that trip and have never single portaged again...
I feel the same reading this note. Respect!
We did end up single portaging a 38 portage loop several years later out Missing Link, but I hurt my knee on that trip and have never single portaged again...
01/27/2025 03:52PM
Stumpy: "This was tacked up in my garage.
I’ll be 65 this year.
The North portage is over a half mile, over a high hill and lots of mud.
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Stumpy is that your pink flamingo in campsites. Once on Cairn I seen it, it was like the first of June and very cold with snow flurries in the air.
Wondered if you swamped the canoe, whomever it was had a huge clothesline up like trying to dry all your clothes and equipment.
01/28/2025 07:30AM
Isn’t the pink flamingo Jim Carrier who does articles for the BWJ…also on Quiet Journey a lot. I might be remembering wrong?
I don’t remember Stumpy doing the pink flamingo… too much weight unnecessary weight for him LOL
T
I don’t remember Stumpy doing the pink flamingo… too much weight unnecessary weight for him LOL
T
“Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau
01/28/2025 08:35AM
timatkn: "Isn’t the pink flamingo Jim Carrier who does articles for the BWJ…also on Quiet Journey a lot. I might be remembering wrong?You may be right, I am not sure?
I don’t remember Stumpy doing the pink flamingo… too much weight unnecessary weight for him LOL
T"
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