This song describes my emotions when I am at my lowest during a solo trip.

Need I explain?

That's a good song. I try real hard to stay away from any deep emotional lows on a solo. I went through that on solo trips in my twenties. Now in my 50's, I can ward off that stuff a lot better.

The lonelinest, darkest song I know of is a song called "The Hole" by Townes Van Zandt. I'm pretty sure it's about drug addiction and alcoholism. Scary stuff. Townes was the best at this sort of thing.

The Hole

You are right Tom, that is a dark song. but I liked it.

I hear you, bumabu, and I like that song, but like TomT, I don't get as low as I used to. I do solos mostly out of necessity, but I also like them. I can be pretty talkative after a week-long solo though :).

if you meet up with me on the last carrys out after a two week solo expect to hear the story of my life------
Solo Blues..there have been times when i ask myself why in blazes i'm i doing this,mostly on those gray wet days when you get "under the weather".a nice day after a good run past the pines and cliffs somewhere and i put my feet up in camp and know why.

I've only done one solo of 4 days - 3 nights. I was fairly exhilarated the entire time. I suppose I need to do more and longer solo trips to see if the blues set in.

The weather can play a big part I think. When it rains day after day on a solo it can be tough. This happened to me in 2007 and I was happy to come out. This year the weather was fantastic and I did not want to leave. No blues this year for me.

The worst blues I ever got on a solo was in 1988 in the Q when I totalled my brand new solo boat on the last day. Luckily I got towed out by a nice couple. The 11 hour ride home with my crumpled canoe on top of my car sucked pretty bad too.

quote wetcanoedog: "if you meet up with me on the last carrys out after a two week solo expect to hear the story of my life--

Funny, I have the opposite reaction. Coming out of a two week solo is very difficult for me. I dislike the "re-entry" very much and try to avoid civilization at all costs.

quote TomT: "The weather can play a big part I think. When it rains day after day on a solo it can be tough. This happened to me in 2007 and I was happy to come out. This year the weather was fantastic and I did not want to leave. No blues this year for me.


The worst blues I ever got on a solo was in 1988 in the Q when I totalled my brand new solo boat on the last day. Luckily I got towed out by a nice couple. The 11 hour ride home with my crumpled canoe on top of my car sucked pretty bad too.


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WOW, I can't even imagine the ride home with myself after that.