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yellowcanoe	02/09/2013 12:32PM   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.
Jeriatric	02/09/2013 11:08AM   quote hiawatha: "21 " Ah yes, the ole Pack.
IBFLY	02/09/2013 12:08PM   14 solo trips to the BWCA Will do my first Solo Trip to Quetico either this Fall or next Spring.
GSP	01/28/2013 05:54PM   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.
PortageKeeper	01/29/2013 11:02AM   At least 30. I've been on as many solo's, as with others.
Sierra1	01/29/2013 04:33PM   Two so far with two more planned for this year.
OBX2Kayak	01/28/2013 07:03PM   Four solos in BWCA; countless others in other spots ... mainly along coastal North Carolina where one can still find uninhabited beaches..
mooseplums	01/29/2013 10:18AM   6
PineKnot	01/29/2013 01:42PM   30+ mostly in Quetico. Average 10-14 days on a trip.
butthead	01/28/2013 08:32PM   About 20, 10 alone, 10 in the company of, or planed meeting, with other solo paddlers! butthead
housty9	01/31/2013 03:31PM   Hans Solo thanks for the info, very interesting thanks housty. Don't know if i could talk my wife in to that.
Canoodler	02/14/2013 02:17PM   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.
builditbetter22	03/22/2016 04:01PM   3, two in the bw. One more planned this fall
gkimball	03/22/2016 05:21PM   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.
MHS67	03/22/2016 06:22PM   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.
bwcasolo	03/22/2016 06:36PM   delete.
Tony	03/30/2016 09:47AM   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
mooseplums	03/30/2016 10:02AM   6 solos
bhouse46	03/30/2016 12:35PM   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.
mobass	01/30/2013 08:46PM   Six solo, out of eleven total. One BWCA five Q. First trip in 2001.
HansSolo	01/31/2013 01:02AM   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
nctry	01/29/2013 06:52PM   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.
eagle93	01/29/2013 08:34AM   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.
Tony	01/29/2013 04:05PM   12 all in the BWCA. Almost all to fish lakers and most off the Gunflint. tony
Jeriatric	01/29/2013 09:12PM   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. :-)
jwartman59	01/29/2013 12:12AM   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.
SevenofNine	01/31/2013 09:03AM   Honestly, I never have kept track. Always thinking about the next one. :-)
housty9	01/28/2013 01:32PM   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
kanoes	01/28/2013 05:12PM   nine 2 Q 7 BW
housty9	01/31/2013 12:14PM   quote HansSolo: ""Group Solo Trips",) When you group solo do you all take your own gear, just wondering.
HansSolo	01/31/2013 01:06PM   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
SunCatcher	01/28/2013 05:22PM   3 All to Woodland Caribou Provincial Park SunCatcher
sunnybear09	01/28/2013 06:29PM   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.
ducks	01/28/2013 07:28PM   Zero 1st one hopefully to BW this summer.
hobbydog	01/28/2013 07:55PM   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.
TomT	01/28/2013 02:50PM   Six. 2 in the 80's, 2 in the 00's, 2 in the 10's.
boonie	01/28/2013 03:41PM   Five in the BW, but have done many other things solo.
lars54	01/28/2013 05:26PM   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
hiawatha	02/09/2013 10:23AM   21
bwcasolo	01/29/2013 05:42AM   15-20, mostly bwca, a few border route trips, many river solo trips in the midwest. many to go.
Brent	01/29/2013 11:16PM   4 of them. Lake One, Seagull, Snowbank, and Hegman
kanoes	01/29/2013 10:14PM   quote ducks: "Zero 1st one hopefully to BW this summer." hope you do ducks!
twston	01/29/2013 07:45PM   0 May 2013 will be my 1st.
housty9	01/30/2013 12:22PM   quote twston: "0 May 2013 will be my 1st. " I'm going up in May also, have a good first solo.
kanoes	01/29/2013 09:59PM   quote twston: "0 May 2013 will be my 1st. " rock it!
ducks	03/22/2016 11:18AM   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
VaderStrom	03/22/2016 11:24AM   Zero. First one planned for as soon as the ice is off around Ely. Come on rain and wind or sun.
housty9	03/22/2016 12:17PM   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.
butthead	03/22/2016 12:42PM   Added a few more last 3 years. butthead
jcavenagh	04/28/2016 04:01PM   1 solo canoe trip 1 solo hiking trip I define solo trip as more than 2 nights with no other campers
Sierra1	04/27/2016 05:47PM   7. All BWCA.
WhiteWolf	04/15/2016 02:11AM   5 solos.