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ducks
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Big duckling invited Echo along on our daddy/daughter trip last week.    
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Jaywalker
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x2jmorris: "Just lost my pup after 14 years. But she has been on so many bwca trips with me. Here is some of her in a canoe.
Very sorry to hear this X2J. What a beautiful dog. 14 is a wonderfully long life for most dogs. Lucky to have made so many trips up there with you. Very sorry for your loss.
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Duckman
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Jaywalker
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quote ducks: "... Did you do a shuttle with Sawbill?"
No shuttle - I started and ended at Sawbill. I was thinking of looping through the Louse River but was missing a section of map so only went as far as Hazel then went back. I'll loop next time.
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ducks
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quote Jaywalker: "quote ducks: "... Did you do a shuttle with Sawbill?"
No shuttle - I started and ended at Sawbill. I was thinking of looping through the Louse River but was missing a section of map so only went as far as Hazel then went back. I'll loop next time. "
That's probably the way I'll end up doing it when I do. I really like the idea of Kawishiwi to Sawbill but paying the $70/$80 shuttle fee solo would be painful especially since I still have to rent a solo.
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Jaywalker
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My dog Regent last month. It's trip #3 for him, and he has developed a very good sense of balance. Video: Solo Dog Trip
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airmorse
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This morning. His first time in a canoe. We were on the water for about 45 minutes and stayed close to shore, just in case.
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TomT
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Duluthian: " 
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The 3rd pic is really great. Good dog.
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jwartman59
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Making sure my chihuahua fits in my 18’ prospector. Looks like I’ll have room for several.
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LadyOfTheLakes
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This is Gus! Our Mini Aussie!
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davep785
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Goldenbadger
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quote RRHD: "I've probably posted these before, but my Calcifer loves to come to the BWCA with me. My husband may start making me choose him or the dog though... 
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That should be an easy choice. Choose the dog.
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Solobob1
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I added a trip report about my dog Jake and I on our solo this year. Here are a few pics from it,
  
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LindenTree3
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Gus looks happy.
Here is a pic of Elsa just before I turned the canoe over.
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RRHD
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I've probably posted these before, but my Calcifer loves to come to the BWCA with me. My husband may start making me choose him or the dog though...
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davep785
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AlexanderSupertramp
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Mozart, from our trip in May this year. One more this September that we are looking forward to. He's not as fond of the canoe rides as he is the campsites and portages.
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ducks
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Love it! Thanks for sharing. I felt like I was watching Echo :) I like the new canoe also.
The Lady Chain is on my trip list. I've done Kawishiwi to Malberg and back and I've done some of the Sawbill area, but would like to see the lady chain from Polly to Alton. Did you do a shuttle with Sawbill?
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BAWaters
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BWCA training for Lola when she was a puppy. She's done two trips now.
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Solobob1
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WOW, and 18 footer, that is a behemoth of a canoe. I would not want to portage that, but then a gain I solo so that would be like paddling a B-52 for me. I would love to see more pics of you canoe. My 15 foot Chestnut Prospector (Ranger) is loaded as I type this - Jake and I are headed out for a 10 day solo tomorrow morning, entry #29. That boat is a perfect solo and really becomes a great boat with a load. I bet yours is fast and nimble and excellent with a load as well. My canoe is about 65 pounds, and with a 30 - 35 pound pack I can portage fairly well with her using a tump. I still have to double port as I have to come back for my wannigan.
Goldenbadger, your canoe is beautiful as well ... and so are your dogs. The picture you posted is awesome!
Cheers,
Bob.
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jwartman59
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quote Solobob1: "jwartman59
Great looking dog - and canoe! Kale and I love to trip in our canoe. Ours is a 15 foot Chestnut Prospector. What are you and your dog paddling?
Bob."
milo is a great dog but he sucks at paddling. this is my recently restored 18' chestnut prospector, we are guessing that it is from the 60s. this is an absolutely gigantic canoe yet it can easily keep up with MN2s.
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Goldenbadger
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quote Solobob1: "WOW, and 18 footer, that is a behemoth of a canoe. I would not want to portage that, but then a gain I solo so that would be like paddling a B-52 for me. I would love to see more pics of you canoe. My 15 foot Chestnut Prospector (Ranger) is loaded as I type this - Jake and I are headed out for a 10 day solo tomorrow morning, entry #29. That boat is a perfect solo and really becomes a great boat with a load. I bet yours is fast and nimble and excellent with a load as well. My canoe is about 65 pounds, and with a 30 - 35 pound pack I can portage fairly well with her using a tump. I still have to double port as I have to come back for my wannigan.
Goldenbadger, your canoe is beautiful as well ... and so are your dogs. The picture you posted is awesome!
Cheers,
Bob.
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Thank you. The canoe is a 1942 Shell Lake. I finished restoring it last summer.
The dogs are my kids. They love canoeing.
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campNgirl
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I'm a little late to your thread but here's my girl. The portage photo and the one with the big smiling dog is Izabel, sweetest dog in the world. The 3rd photo of the back of the beautiful head with the ears framing the portage, that's my Rilee girl. The one that saved my life on more than one occasion.   
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TomT
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quote campNgirl: "I'm a little late to your thread but here's my girl. The portage photo and the one with the big smiling dog is Izabel, sweetest dog in the world. The 3rd photo of the back of the beautiful head with the ears framing the portage, that's my Rilee girl. The one that saved my life on more than one occasion.
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Are they smooth coat border collies? How was your life saved?
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ducks
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Last weeks trip to Homer. Echo was more excited to go than I was :) When I got up to shower at 2am to leave on the trip last Sat. he was running around the house and then stopping to stare at the door to the garage.. He knew :) ......  
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Goldenbadger
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My friend in the bow, my two goldens, Bear and Willow in the middle. Me in the stern. 
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jwartman59
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my dog is finally growing out of puppy stage. (he's four now). sitting for hours in a canoe was not his idea of a good time. he's a lab and designed to swim, a mile or two of swimming and he chill for a couple days, he's figuring it out, swimming is hard work, duffing in a canoe is life a it's finest.
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mcspin50
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Here's Jiminy having a snooze on our way up Basswood Lake to our sandy beach campsite just below US Point on Sept 23, 2017
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Mduk
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Thanks for posting this picture and providing a good chuckle for me. I have a 15 lb havanese. He loves canoeing but hates the cold...and the rain. I've pretty much decided he'll stay with a friend on long overnight trips. Do you take your little dog with you canoe camping? 
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dogwoodgirl
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These are of my buddy Amelia.....Stella hated canoeing, but Amelia has taken to it and has been on 4 trips in the 18 months I've had her. A few alarming lunges after "sky raisins" at first, but now she's pretty chill. She has her own sleeping bag now, after spending her first nights wrapped up in my fleece!
  
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TomT
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Luna just completed her 4th trip with me in Quetico. She's 8 now but you would never know it by her enthusiasm to do the portages and swim and play fetch with a ball around camp.
   
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Z4K
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Wisconsin's Willow Flowage, October 2018.
Ensign, July 2018.
Canoe Lake, July 2017.
I've only been to the BWCA solo with Boomer once but on the group trips he is normally the only one ready to go fishing with me at dawn. His near 100# weight really helps me handle a tandem canoe solo, especially big ones like this Wenonah Odyssey. I don't know why his bed wasn't in the boat on this morning.
Sunset on Malberg, June 2019
Sunset on Ima, May 2017
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Dotbear
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Dottie chilling during a long day of paddling.
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ducks
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 Echo was not happy to go home this morning.
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x2jmorris
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Just lost my pup after 14 years. But she has been on so many bwca trips with me. Here is some of her in a canoe.
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WoolShirt
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 Eli, chillin' on Washtie lake.
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WoolShirt
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Speckled
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Pretzel on the Stony
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Jaywalker
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 only image I haven't already posted I think. It's hard to tell there is a canoe under him, but there is. Not one to ever take to the BWCA though.
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MacCamper
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UphillHarry
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TomT
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Luna my good canoeing pal.
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ducks
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Echo on 2 different trips with my wife and I and also from my solo last fall.        
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barracuda
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Gunter
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drought
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Underway with a loaded canoe.
Quick day trip.
Find a comfortable place and enjoy the ride. We will be in camp soon enough.
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arctic
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Wilson.
A rainy day on Side Lake, Quetico.
Checking out pictos, Quetico Lake.
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nojobro
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Booker in a loaded SR 18.5 three-seater
(No, he really doesn't enjoy canoeing...but he loves us and he loves camping!)
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jwartman59
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 he's wet as usual.
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2K10
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I never get tired of seeing all of these great looking canoe dogs!
Here’s Karma and Jake’s first (and only) Quetico trip 5 years ago. Sadly we lost both of them to cancer over the past 4 years, was really happy to have that experience with them. Try not to laugh at the “pontoons” on the canoe....we are experienced paddlers, but the thought of taking 150 pounds worth of dogs who had never stepped foot in a canoe (and a Berner who hated swimming) made us a little nervous :-) The “pontoons” saved us a few times in big rollers on Bayley Bay, and when the bigger dog decided to shift all of his weight to one side - well worth the slight embarrassment of using them!!
Hoping to do a canoe trip soon with the 2 new members of our pack (Bella and Adrian), just trying to figure out how to make that work since the older one is 105 pounds, and is not very graceful.
    
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canoegal
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Let's see your photos of your dogs in canoes! I'll start the thread with my awesome canoedog, Daisy. (Thanks for suggesting the thread, Goldenbadger!)
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nojobro
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Booker on a tow boat, Moose Lake
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bennojr
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Claire
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Birdknowsbest
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My Stella on last years trip. We are headed up Thursday for week. She is excited.
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EmmaMorgan
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My dog Ze’ev on our trip this past July. He loves the canoe and carrying his own pack on portages. 
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vallybird
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Our dog, Milo, last year. He's excited for his third trip to the BWCA this Friday!
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justpaddlin
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Zoey
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ducks
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   From my solo in May w/ Echo. He's a great canoe dog. Somehow we ended up w/ a lab doesn't like to swim.
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Goldenbadger
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Willow loves the canoe.
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RRHD
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quote Goldenbadger: "quote RRHD: "I've probably posted these before, but my Calcifer loves to come to the BWCA with me. My husband may start making me choose him or the dog though...
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That should be an easy choice. Choose the dog. "
Yeah, pretty much. I've never capsized with just the dog, or the dog plus the kids. But with my husband...
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printing
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Here is some of Bell from last summer she getting the hang of napping on the packs.
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ducks
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Echo from our trip in Aug.
  
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LindenTree3
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I do a lot of solo's and this is a picture of my first mate.(Elsa) Named before the Frozen Movie. She is a 1/2 Shepard Rescue dog. Notice the missing eye. She lost it before we adopted her and she has never been able to find it. :-)
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LindenTree3
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Mocha's last trip. She was a beautiful Chocolate Lab rescue dog, when we took her to the U of M she was diagnosed with a leaky heart valve and not given long to live. We put her on meds and got 1.5 more years out of her. She died at 6.5 Year old.
My wife and I did a week long trip into Insula Lake during the Pagami fire. It was her/Mocha's last BW trip. She loved fetching and the water. I still get teary eyed thinking of her.
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ducks
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Yogi started his canoe training today. Get In. Sit. Down. Wait. and Get Out. Echo helped demonstrate.
  
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canoegal
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Here's a photo of Daisy during our most recent BWCAW adventure, and my husband paddling in the distance. Daybreak was incredible!
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2K10
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quote canoegal: "
Here's a photo of Daisy during our most recent BWCAW adventure, and my husband paddling in the distance. Daybreak was incredible!"
Gorgeous picture!!
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KPow
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This is Layla. I can't believe how many people have a dog that looks exactly like her!
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LindenTree3
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Just got off the lake with Elsa, 11/8/16
Here is a pic of her.
I sure miss my Old Town Pak. This Smoker Craft is a beast, but I live on a lake so I don't have to move it much.
PS, I've had as many as three large dogs in this canoe at one time.
 
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Solobob1
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I really like this forum, Thanks to Tom T for alerting me to it, I am having a lot of fun during the snow storm to day, looking over the great dog/canoe photos, awesome stuff!
Here are some pics of my Dog Jake.
Jake loves to explore the backcountry. After a long day, he seeks refuge in the canoe. 
We had a difficult morning, slow going and he is not happy with me - giving me the stink eye. 
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TomT
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Hey Solobob, nice to see you on here. What kind of dog is Jake? We talked at Copia but I want to say you said he is a Visla but that could have been someone else.
That's a beauty of a canoe also.
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Solobob1
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Tom,
Yup, Jake (in the picture) is a year and a half old Vizsla. He is doing pretty well for a pup, we have one more BWCA trip planned and then we are looking to get into WCPP or other wilderness areas.
My canoe is 15 Chestnut Prospector Ranger. It is a great tripping boat for Jake and I.
Bob
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Solobob1
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A couple more pics of Jake ... brings back awesome memories during our latest winter snowfall. After splitting some wood for the fire, it is great to relive these moments.
Jake waiting for the command to jump in the canoe - he is jacked to get going.
A cold morning paddle on the TTF in Wisconsin.
Paddling to the last portage of our trip 2016 on the TFF.
Bob.
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TomT
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Love the pics Bob. That 2nd one shows his love for canoeing.
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TomT
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davep785
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Royal is ready to go back. 
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Goldenbadger
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quote davep785: "Royal the Boykin Spaniel. LIS North
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Beautiful dog! We were just on LIS north Aug 7-13. I'm glad you posted this as it reminded me to post a pic here of Bear. 
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davep785
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Royal the Boykin Spaniel. LIS North
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jwartman59
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milo is obsessed with swimming and never understood why you would sit in a boat all day when there is all this wonderful water to swim in. proud to say he stayed in the canoe for our entire five day trip. could be that getting in and out of this 15" deep canoe was just too much work.
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ducks
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Echo went along on my early May solo and my daddy/daughter trip Memorial Day weekend.
   
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Solobob1
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jwartman59
Great looking dog - and canoe! Kale and I love to trip in our canoe. Ours is a 15 foot Chestnut Prospector. What are you and your dog paddling?
Bob.
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Oldtown13
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This is Sugar Bear. My Chocolate Lab that made it 16 years, and was a great companion in canoe country.
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campNgirl
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Here's my girl, a veteran canoe dog with more experience than most 2 leggeds. Not every dog makes a good canoe dog/camp dog, they need to know proper etiquette. My BFF has this down better than any.   
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LindenTree
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Our newest rescue dog Ember on his third paddle on the lake at home.
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Duluthian
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RTurner
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Not a canoe, but I still like the picture. 
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donr
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This is Kita’s first time in a canoe. She wasn’t sure about things and she stuck close. She was more relaxed in later outings, but will only ride in my solo. She will have nothing to do with a tandem.
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DKalis
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Ivan and Kymber
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SteveF
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Some pictures from last weeks trip. If somebody could tell me how to prevent the site from flipping my pictures I'm all ears    
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TomT
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This is Luna on Sunday Lake in Quetico. I was out fishing and didn't have my small pack in front of her in the bow. It's the first time I ever saw her sit/lay like this. It could be because the bottom of the canoe was cold to her, not sure. Or it was just a comfortable way to still see what was going on.
Here's a short video of us playing on Marj Lake in Quetico Sept. 2016. She's one of those dogs that WANTS to play ball but doesn't like givin' it up! :)
Luna playing fetch
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talusman
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Mostly a hiking dog but he has done his share of canoe trips. 
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dogwoodgirl
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Miss Amelia , early morning on Spider lake
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