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straighthairedcurly
09/03/2024 09:55PM
  
Fun report.Congrats on the grand baby and hope you get that 3 generation trip some day.
 
AluminumBarge
08/27/2024 10:55PM
  
If 1999 was your first trip, wouldn’t this be your 26th consecutive year? Either way, nice.
 
Samsquatch
08/27/2024 01:15PM
  
Nice photos. I was on some of those same lakes a week previous. It seemed pretty busy.
 
BigTim
08/27/2024 12:55PM
  
New Trip Report posted by BigTim

Trip Name: Work Harder, Not Smarter.

Entry Point: 47

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NoService
08/27/2024 01:30PM
  
Nice write up Tim. I feel like I was there.


The water system is cool. Custom prefilter for large solids in an old gravity bag flowing to a an inline 0.1 um hollow fiber filter. Easy to backflush in the field. The higher you hang the old gravity bag, the higher the head you get at the filter, until the height between the bag and the filter is at the maximum. The capacity of the charcoal element is dramatically lower than the capacity of the 0.1 um filter and I probably wouldn't replace if only trying to treat BWCA lakes. Of course, if you're trying to clean up water from Crystal Lake your charcoal element should last a lot longer than if trying to clean up water from Ada Crick in a low water year.


I think most folks are doing it this way, but looks like at least one old dog is still learning new tricks out here.


Maybe Ellie should help you write a recipe book - burritos in the Boundary Waters?? Come on, dude, be real. When I was young we ate rocks and cedar bark out there.
 
brp
08/27/2024 04:15PM
  
My favorite part of the report is just thinking of a father and son having a 25 year tradition. That type of thing just wasn’t on my, or my father’s radar…but my now teenage son and I could maybe give it a go. Consider me inspired.

 
BigTim
08/28/2024 11:33AM
  
Darn. You are working smarter, not harder. Our first trip was a couple weeks before the 1999 blowdown. I should have used fence post math! 25th year - but 26th trip. That's what happens when you retire and are clueless as to what day of the week it is........
 
rdgbwca
08/27/2024 08:55PM
  
Thanks for sharing.


I noticed the folding table, the lawn chairs and the cast iron! Why not bring the heavy hardware if someone else is packing it?


I was interested to hear about the Mondale site. My DW heard about this site and expressed interest in staying there. Sounds like it is hard to get.


Final observation was that dad still paddles the stern.


Looked like a great trip!