How many solos have you been on, 1 and my 2nd will be this spring, 1st was 5 nights and 6 days this one will be 7 nights and 8 days, then in the fall i will take the wife on a shorter trip

Six.

2 in the 80's, 2 in the 00's, 2 in the 10's.

Five in the BW, but have done many other things solo.

nine

2 Q
7 BW

3 All to Woodland Caribou Provincial Park

SunCatcher

summer of 1969 was my first. went 10 days in the bdub and
only ran across one other canoe. one,sometimes two solo
trips a year since then. if i can ever retire my dream is to
take a long trip like my hero Ben

31, missed a few years. First was 10 days to knife lake, kelly, thomas ins, out at snowbank. New canoe, pack, tent, paddle, stove and sleeping bag and still have them.

3 solos in the BW, but too many to remember in other places, mostly Montana and the Adirondaks, remote fishing, hunting, camping, and snowshoeing. Of course if you mean without any of the 4 Chesapeakes I've been lucky enough to call my best friends, the number goes down quite a bit. You're never really alone with a great dog.

Four solos in BWCA; countless others in other spots ... mainly along coastal North Carolina where one can still find uninhabited beaches..

Zero

1st one hopefully to BW this summer.

Four day trip to Whiteshell PP 2 years ago
Four day trip last spring in the bwca.
7 days Trip on the Bird River starting in Nopiming PP last fall
WCPP in Sept this year

More confidence comes with each one. Hope for many more.

About 20, 10 alone, 10 in the company of, or planed meeting, with other solo paddlers!

butthead

if you count one night overnights, i can't even guess. my in-laws have a lake cabin in some really nice country near outing, minnesota. my family in law have serious issues, i can deal with them fine, but i can deal with them better when i am off camping by myself. that is what i have done. they think that i am odd. on many of these escapes i may have brought my very young children, not always.

i have done at least a dozen solo trips backpacking in alaska, several backpacking in the rockies, and probably sixty or more solo canoe trips, most but not all in the bwca.

spending time alone, in the wild, is very important to me.

i started this when i was young, my wife can tell when it has been too long, she sends me off, she knows i have a box of maps.

15-20, mostly bwca, a few border route trips, many river solo trips in the midwest. many to go.

6 or 7, 4 day , 3 night trips when I was working. Summers were tied up with school group trips, 33 of those in 12 years. Plan on more now that I'm retired.

6

At least 30. I've been on as many solo's, as with others.

30+ mostly in Quetico. Average 10-14 days on a trip.

12 all in the BWCA. Almost all to fish lakers and most off the Gunflint.

tony

Two so far with two more planned for this year.

Only about seven that I'd call trips. Never solo'd WCPP even though I paddled my solo up there twice. I've group solo'd a couple times... Pretty fun.

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May 2013 will be my 1st.

My second and third trips to the B-dub were solos, 8-days and 7-days. My first trip, at age 60, was as part of a 4-some but I was already planning a solo before I exited the BW. My biological clock was ticking. :-)

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May 2013 will be my 1st.
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rock it!

quote ducks: "Zero


1st one hopefully to BW this summer."

hope you do ducks!

4 of them.

Lake One, Seagull, Snowbank, and Hegman

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May 2013 will be my 1st.
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I'm going up in May also, have a good first solo.

Six solo, out of eleven total. One BWCA five Q. First trip in 2001.

When you say "solos", is that to say a solo canoe trip of multiple days and nights taken strictly alone, or in the company of other solos? Either way, here's an account of my solo tripping history.

(5 trips), BWCAW "solo", (Solo Canoe paddled: Sawyer DY Special or Wenonah Jensen C1W.)

(3 trips), Isle Royale "solo", (Solo Canoe paddled: Wenonah Jensen C1W)

(1 trip), Quetico Provincial Park "solo", (Solo canoe paddled: Wenonah Voyager)

(2 trips), Kickapoo River "solo", (Sawyer Summersong or Bell Yellowstone Solo, Royalex)

Wisconsin River "solo" canoe trips, (1983 to present), too many to remember, seriously. (Solo Canoes paddled: Sawyer DY Special, Sawyer Shock Wave, Sawyer Summersong, Wenonah Jensen C1W, or Wenonah Voyager.)








"Group Solo Trips", (Isn't this a bit of an oxymoron?)







(1 trip), Quetico Provincial Park "group solo", (Group Solo Canoes paddled: 1-Wenonah Jensen C1W, 5-Sawyer DY Specials, and 2-Sawyer Summersongs)

(4 trips), BWCAW "group solo", (Solo Canoes paddled: Sawyer DY Special(s), Wenonah Jensen C1W, Wenonah Jensen 18 "rigged solo", and 1-Sawyer Summersong)

(1 trip), Isle Royale Kayak Touring "group solo", (1-Necky Eskia 16 and 1-Perception Eclipse 17')

(1 trip), BWCAW Kayak Touring "group solo", (1-Necky Eskia 16 and 1-Perception Eclipse 17')

(2 trips), Current River, Jacks Forks River, and Eleven Point River, (Missouri), "group solo", (Group Solo Canoes paddled: 1-Sawyer DY Special or 1-Wenonah Jensen C1W, and 1-Sawyer Summersong)

(15+ approx.), Wisconsin River "group solo", (Group Solo Canoes paddled: Wenonah Voyager, Wenonah Jensen C1W(s), Sawyer Shock Wave(s), Sawyer DY Special(s), Sawyer Summersong(s), Wenonah Advantage, Perception Carolina 13.5, Aquaterra Chinook(s), Easy Rider Eskimo 17' and Easy Rider Eskimo 18' 6".

(4 trips), Kickapoo River "group solo", (Group Solo Canoes paddled: Sawyer Summersong(s), Wenonah Jensen C1W, Bell Rockstar, Bell Yellowstone Solo, Wenonah Rendezvous, Wenonah Solitude)

(3 trips), Namakagon River and St.Croix River, "group solo", (Group Solo Canoes paddled: Sawyer DY Special and/or Wenonah C1W(s), and Sawyer Summersong)

(1 trip), Black River,"group solo", (Group Solo canoes paddled: 1-Sawyer DY Special and 1-Sawyer Summersong)

There's several trips I probably haven't taken in to account, lost count of, or haven't listed because they were just brief "over-nighters" or day trips.

I rarely paddle tandem anymore, and haven't for many years. Even when we do a family trip, "Mrs. Solo" and our three kids paddle their own solo canoe or kayak, if they chose to. Now what I really need is a canoe trailer.

Hans Solo

Honestly, I never have kept track. Always thinking about the next one. :-)

quote HansSolo: ""Group Solo Trips",)

When you group solo do you all take your own gear, just wondering.

In response to: "When you group solo do you all take your own gear?"

Answer: That depends on the group members. If it's my wife and I, or we're part of the "group solo", we share a tent, first aid kit, camp saw, water filter, and all cooking related items, including food. But we still carry our personal items, (i.e., clothes, sleeping pad, sleeping bag, rain gear, etc.), in our own solo canoe. We will split-up the equipment to better balance out the load in our canoes though. (This is also the case if it's just my son and I, or him and I are on a "group solo" trip.)

If I'm traveling with the guys, or with other paddlers that are not married, or in a "relationship", we are totally self-contained. That is, all of our individual gear, including tents, sleeping bags, stoves, kitchen equipment, etc. are carried in each solo canoe as if each paddler was setting-out alone.

Occasionally, some individual members of the "group solo" may share a stove, a camp saw, a water filter, or a first aid kit, but that's about it. If equipment is shared by individual "solo group" members, that's usually predetermined prior to the trip.

When a group of eight us did the "Falls Chain" in Quetico Provincial Park several years ago, my wife and I shared our equipment as described above, as did another married couple who were on the trip. Two of the group members were my nephews, who also shared a tent and equipment as us married couples did. The other two members of our group were totally self contained.

If "Mrs. Solo" and I are traveling with the kids, I take the bulk of the "community equipment", (i.e., tent, stove, camp kitchen, camp saw, etc.), in my solo canoe. If the dog is brought along, the dog usually travels with me, unless my daughters pair up in a tandem canoe, which is usually the Jensen 18.

If it's a "family group solo" canoe trip, we generally take a 4-person tent to accommodate all of us, or a two-person tent for the wife and I, and a two-person or three-person tent for the kids, if two or more of them go along. If it's two tents, then my son or "Mrs. Solo" will take the smaller of the two tents in their solo canoe.

Hans Solo

Hans Solo thanks for the info, very interesting thanks housty. Don't know if i could talk my wife in to that.

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Ah yes, the ole Pack.

14 solo trips to the BWCA
Will do my first Solo Trip to Quetico either this Fall or next Spring.

Some thirty true solo trips of five days or more. Some group solos..mostly in La Verendrye or the Pine Barrens of NJ or the Adirondacks and two in the Everglades.

It all started with one week solo in Algonquin Provincial Park in 1996.
2012 had one Everglades solo(one week), one Glades paired solo (two weeks)

One Algonquin Solo, one Maine solo and a loong car camping trip..and two weeks (tandem...eek) down the Yukon River.

Its addictive..so watch it! While I have done five Q solos and O BWCA solos (Q is closer) 2012 was not a year for that area alas. Next for you might be WCPP...once you get there..you are all done, hooked lined and sunk..You will be back.

Thinking back, four solos. The first was a semi-loop from Mudro to Fourtown, to Angleworm and back out on Hegman. Nice trip.

Two have been from Moose Lake with a tow to near Basswood River, down the River to Robinson and Kett Lakes. Even nicer trip since you have the falls to experience. Going from the BWCA to Quetico is like switching travel from a busy highway to a quiet country road.

Another trip was a tow to Snow Bay of LLC and paddling around in Gun, Eugene, North and South Lakes. This was a quiet trip too. Not many people tootle around in the NW part of the BWCAW.

Reviving an oldie so people can update their numbers. We also have people that weren't around when this thread started.

2 to the bwca

3rd one coming in May

Zero.

First one planned for as soon as the ice is off around Ely. Come on rain and wind or sun.

Up to 9 now, won't get to do one this year but planning 2 for next year, things will be getting back to more normal then.

Added a few more last 3 years.

butthead

3, two in the bw. One more planned this fall

6 by canoe, planning 2 more this year. About 5 on foot (all out west, many years ago.) A few, 6?, car camping, can't remember exact number.

7 in the BW and I'm guessing 25 out here in the Sierra's. Most trips here were only 3 days long, depending on the weather.

delete.

I didn't realize thie was a old thread till I came acrosse my old post from three years ago. Ha Ha. I have added three more so up to 15.

tony

6 solos

Solos into the BWCA and Quetico add up to over 8, joining up with others along the way adds 2 more, trips to other destinations adds a few more.
In a loose definition of going solo I enjoy taking off in my truck with boat and gear stopping at interesting bodies of water along the way. I run into people at portages (stops for gas and such) but am mostly alone enjoying lake and river paddling. I hope to cover most of America in the next few years.

5 solos.

7. All BWCA.

1 solo canoe trip
1 solo hiking trip

I define solo trip as more than 2 nights with no other campers