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09/28/2010 10:17AM
New Trip Report posted by 4Lakes
Trip Name: 1990 Expeditionary Canuck
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Trip Name: 1990 Expeditionary Canuck
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10/03/2010 08:20AM
Unas, this trip was through Camp Manito-Wish , an independent YMCA camp which is located in Boulder Junction, WI. This camp is a canoe-tripping camp. The "Expo" as it is called, is the pinnacle of Manito-Wish's Outpost program and is by invitation only and participants must show capabilities on prior outpost trips, usually in a two-week trip followed by a 4-5 week trip.
http://www.manito-wish.org/
Incidentally, I have journals from those two previous trips as well!
Camp Manito-Wish
http://www.manito-wish.org/
Incidentally, I have journals from those two previous trips as well!
Camp Manito-Wish
10/03/2010 11:17AM
The two YMCA camps near the BWCAW (Widjiwagan and Menogyn) also do extensive tripping in the Far North. My niece just did a month-long paddle on the Kazan River, up to Baker Lake.
BTW, I paddled a chunk of your route in 1988 when three friends and I paddled from Reindeer L, UP the Cochrane R., over the Height-of-Land into the Kasmere/Thlewiaza watershed to Nueltin, NE to Baralzon L, thence down the Wolverine and Seal Rivers to Hudson Bay. Then we paddled the Bay to Churchill.
BTW, I paddled a chunk of your route in 1988 when three friends and I paddled from Reindeer L, UP the Cochrane R., over the Height-of-Land into the Kasmere/Thlewiaza watershed to Nueltin, NE to Baralzon L, thence down the Wolverine and Seal Rivers to Hudson Bay. Then we paddled the Bay to Churchill.
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” -Edward Abbey
10/08/2010 05:48PM
Holy Cow! What a trip! A trapper you could be when you retire, no? Oui! Shall we call you Pierre? Can't wait to see the rest.
LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/
11/20/2010 09:01PM
Thanks. Waiting on parts 9 and 10. Interesting how the tone of the writing changed as the trip progressed. That says a lot about how you were feeling. I think we can sense how the bleak environment pressed upon the group.
LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/
11/21/2010 09:03PM
OK, I read the whole thing. OMG, what an incredible journey!
I wanted to get some practice with Google Earth so I mapped the trip. Here's a low-res version. Let me know if you'd like the high-res.
The path is necessarily straightened because it quickly became hard to guess at your actual route. (And now I know a lot more about working with G-Earth.)
One line in the trip report stuck with me: "This is a hard land."
I wanted to get some practice with Google Earth so I mapped the trip. Here's a low-res version. Let me know if you'd like the high-res.
The path is necessarily straightened because it quickly became hard to guess at your actual route. (And now I know a lot more about working with G-Earth.)
One line in the trip report stuck with me: "This is a hard land."
12/08/2010 11:29AM
Thanks 4Lakes. I really enjoyed this report and I hope you'll come back and complete the last 10 days for us! My daughters, sister and nephew are Manito-wishers and I know that these Outpost trips can be truly life-defining.
12/17/2010 02:32PM
AMOK - Read the trip report when you have a chunk of time. Like Koda, I followed the trip report on Google maps, except I haven't figured out Google Earth. I had many hours of fun reading and plotting the course. I suspect several others also plotted the trip as they read.
This report is one of the best canoe trip reports on any website I've seen. One can almost hear the wind howling across the tundra and feel the rawness of the troupe as they make their way doggedly to the Hudson Bay.
This report is one of the best canoe trip reports on any website I've seen. One can almost hear the wind howling across the tundra and feel the rawness of the troupe as they make their way doggedly to the Hudson Bay.
LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/
12/23/2010 10:29AM
quote jcavenagh: "4Lakes - A lot of folks are reading when you are ready to finish this...thanks"
Great trip report. I second that motion.
The best part of this journey here is further knowing yourself - Alan Kay
01/14/2011 10:05PM
All of the sudden, after reading this, the toughest routes through the Quetico look like the local park by comparison. I wonder if that solo tripper made it out OK? I was surprised no bears along the way.
"...not all those who wander are lost..." JRR Tolkien.
04/04/2011 02:14PM
Wow, uh, first, I apologize for being away so long. Life kinda got in the way. Second, thanks for all the kind words. The report wasn't getting alot of feedback at first so I kinda felt that it wasn't really what a lot of folks were interested in reading here.
Update, the text is all finished, but am waiting to post until I can get the rest of the pictures scanned. I will redouble my efforts to get this up and finished!
Andy
Update, the text is all finished, but am waiting to post until I can get the rest of the pictures scanned. I will redouble my efforts to get this up and finished!
Andy
04/04/2011 04:01PM
4lakes...I can't speak for others but I can't adequately express how much I enjoyed reading about your adventure. I actually introduced my son to the Manito-Wish website in hopes of vicariously taking a trip via him (he's 14). I'm looking to finishing "the journey".
"Think, think, think!" W.T.P.
04/07/2011 08:34AM
Awesome detail. I'll need to take some more time when not at work and read it more thoroughly. thanks for putting the time in to that trip report.
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.
04/12/2011 07:00PM
Andy~thanks again for taking the time to pen the entire journey. I wonder which was longer...writing the report or the actual canoe trip? That experience can never be taken away from you. I for one am envious!
"Think, think, think!" W.T.P.
04/13/2011 10:17AM
quote phisherman: "Andy~thanks again for taking the time to pen the entire journey. I wonder which was longer...writing the report or the actual canoe trip? That experience can never be taken away from you. I for one am envious!"
Phish,
I kept journals on all of my longer trips. I was the only one on any of my trips that kept a journal, and I'm glad i did. As someone asked in another thread: "who keeps a journal as an 18 year old?" ME!
The time consuming part was taking the writing and typing it into digital form, editing as I went!
I do have the journal from a 33 day trip I did as well, alas, only half the pictures made it.
@snapcrackpop: Thanks.
Andy
05/11/2011 02:59PM
YESSSS....!!! Nice report! I have been reading little bits each day at work during lunch! This is very nice of you to post such a lengthy report...thank you!
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it!
05/26/2017 04:40AM
quote SaganagaJoe: "Really enjoyed this. Thanks for bumping it back up to the top. "
I have to agree. That is a once in a lifetime trip.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle
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