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Pinetree
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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"
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TrailZen
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Just curious, what were you eating for breakfast back then???
TZ
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bhouse46
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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.
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Speckled
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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.
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Jakthund
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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.
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MidwestMan
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TrailZen: "Just curious, what were you eating for breakfast back then???
TZ"
Beans straight outta the can and coffee beans
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timatkn
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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
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Pinetree
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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.
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timatkn
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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
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Pinetree
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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?
I don’t remember Stumpy doing the pink flamingo… too much weight unnecessary weight for him LOL
T" You may be right, I am not sure?
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rtallent
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I'll take that food pack. You go, man.
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Stumpy
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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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Pinetree
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wow, what a voyageur
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thegildedgopher
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I’m 43 and couldn’t do that right now!
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Jackfish
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A lot of us feel the same way, Stumpy. The days of "Jackfish the Sherpa" are far in the rearview mirror. :)
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NEIowapaddler
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Jeez Louise, I couldn't do that now, and I'm 31 and reasonably fit.
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arnesr
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Impressive. I'm 52 and that would be a double portage for me.
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scottiebaldwin
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Impressive. Only the likes of George Bonga could pull that off!
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Stumpy
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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.
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LindenTree
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Thats double tough man.
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Dreamer
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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...
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mgraber
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Man, that was a load! I use to do similar, except with a 65# canoe. No longer, at 60 I am slowing down fast! sucks getting old :(
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