tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52866416166776584142024-03-05T16:54:47.422-06:00The Lake is the BossKayaking, photography, camping, fishing, hunting, skiing, snowshoeing, philosophical happy hours, good friends,and other activities that take place in the Lake Superior basin.DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.comBlogger706125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-5494536258272282562017-03-27T15:37:00.001-05:002017-03-27T15:40:11.466-05:00Cranes; Lotsa cranes....<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_3424_80d_23c9_d57a" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8IffauDa5iqd0kpgpAt9VOrtX4QlweEYKH4zX5lZtYy1Q2CNmcvLAdB9fH37zQ_iNVYLDf4MPs4z84kp_mnJEstwPC-7ZGZSVHsnUrTsaXd4pQ4BWwkSBmdFq8Ux7KXjM9tHBMUbkkI/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 670px; height: auto;"> </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The alarm went off at 5am on Saturday morning at the plush LaQuinta in Kearney, NE. I managed to get out the door without rousting either my spouse or my dog. My goal was to weasel into one of the blinds at the Rowe Sanctuary to see the Sandhill Cranes as they left the safety of the Platte River to hit the fields and fatten up for the migration north. I had called a couple times and everything was booked but figured I could talk my way into one if I showed up at 5:45, solo and with a sad tale of how I missed the opening the night before due to a spring Colorado blizzard (true story) that slowed us down. My backup was either the foot bridge at Ft Kearney or the Elm Island parking lot. Both had lots of cranes to see but were not roosting spots, just flyby areas en route to the fields where they fed for most of the day. There were a pile of people there but a combination of cold temps and a steady north wind did its job; it culled out a few of the fair weather crane viewers and I was in!</span><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/science/sandhill-cranes-nebraska-platte-river.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share" id="id_11d9_f080_a97f_d82f" target="_blank">story</a><br></span></font></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="width: 525px; height: auto;"><img id="id_515c_76d1_12a2_74d1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurayN1Ez2k2s8SoUkTC6BuoUpWw1Tlcs9n_9tdzRAHdbSXRjKhX2J4LKPX9uLtDurvhym7AA4c-pHVOc9nl-dqNcPyYOsnDKBGkDGWue5Cj12EFR9-087XBshH7iX3lSw_tBWEExzQdc/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 525px; height: auto;"></span> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A short film was shown and we were led out to the blind in the dark with flashlights with red filters. We were instructed that no talking above a whisper and that nothing, especially telephoto lenses and hat brims could protrude outside the blind. Cameras were not allowed until the green light in the blond came on. We could hear the infrequent crane call from time to time as we walked the half mile or so to the blind and the woman next to me whispered that she hoped we would see a few cranes. We arrived at the blind in the cold dark morning and I reflected that this was my first time ever in a blind pre dawn without a shotgun or rifle. As it got slowly lighter, it was a very overcast day and never got really bright out, the marsh grass and cattails that we thought we were seeing sway in the wind turned out to be several thousand roosting Sandhill cranes. The woman's question was answered, now the question was when and how they would leave the river. As the first few began to take off the crane cacophony became louder and louder. The cranes like to spend the night on sandbars in the middle of this particular spot in the Platte, a river that one pioneer described as "A mile wide and an inch deep". This gives them excellent protection from predators like coyotes, foxes, and cats that jerk cat owners let run wild. At around 6:45 or 7:00 the cranes began to leave in huge numbers. Some just moved around a bit and flew over to their neighbors but there was mass exodus as well. I tried to estimate numbers but gave up. I had counted a group of 100 birds and tried to extrapolate that to the massive raft of cranes in front of me but it was impossible. The official count of birds in the refuge was 210,000, down from the 400,000 a week and a half ago. I guessed roughly 15-20,000 in front of us but who knows?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <img id="id_39e3_db6d_84cf_9f6b" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHuSLem2xc7XVXv6UOOvgTmRTNHWbxmOCgUPQEIhFsnwcP8YymudAaltIz2Vpmh6ObcYER5vjgsAcmRyr2L89_2mdgOoL4fG0v8WavumZch1okalp-KKgwEJnj9alI8DjSrkNWIrn53Q0/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 498px; height: auto;">E</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_c8_8e12_250_eed5" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eoUfKRNWzqEeiISHes1mm0XhwLeiJDKF7iIjteS4H9aInsKcKwHiHyKa3-ZAMhxqLUBdPOhm9wGQsR6sXVyeeJMg0rJ_QooRvL0jZjnUrQ5gXXa244J78XLjYKWvPnDMvDF2PKPRYHo/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 408px; height: auto;"></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We stayed until around 9am and there were still lots of cranes in the river. As I drove out of the refuge I saw hundreds in the fields dining. The Iain Nicholson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary owns 1,150 acres of prime Sandhill roosting area. Due to dams up river the area is threatened because the snowmelt does not flood the river and wash out the tree seedlings and other vegetation along the river, which results in cover for the predators I detailed above. The habitat is shrinking and Rowe/Nicholson is doing strong work to protect and expand the area under their jurisdiction. Below is a story by a NY Times reporter, definitely not fake news I can attest, that was there about the same time I was. I gave them a few extra bucks out of both gratitude and awe in addition to my blind fee, a Rowe T-shirt, and some crane cards and a pin for Kathy. I can only hope that some of the Sandhills that I see in the field off Bark Bay Road and nesting in Bark Slough are some of my buddies that took off Saturday morning to stuff themselves in the fields. I think when I paddle out there I will simply assume that these are my Nebraska buddies up for a visit.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/science/sandhill-cranes-nebraska-platte-river.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share" id="id_11d9_f080_a97f_d82f" target="_blank">NY Times </a></span></font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_de7a_ea9f_3d87_c98b" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4G2rG_YgM8RtZHbsiLBovE-B6jgT-EtxVAutty0EY3lK9LbDWChlW-mVT7SdFxO9XzEqNLiKGyBCsLyoulieusH_dhmHFfNwnw2k5W63qBonMUyrhBWzri9XtiZbo-WIzf6QpOyWqtvU/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 448px; height: auto;"></span></div></div>DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-68372046717111000332016-09-10T11:19:00.001-05:002016-09-10T11:22:20.697-05:00Do we go or do we stay?<div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_bba0_1f60_45dc_ba76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGXZEMj_2WTmmPjG8PTvuDjrrPHvsW80Bnki7Px6eYUQVtMrEKYhMGzIqk4i4SFXFLeRIFFW7hw86c9PfPSXMif7zEWX2KKSMKg9nxcJ1YrR_ou_SnvPTp76ZygHDWS41L8SzfwHoOgw/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 521px; height: auto;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4">Michael Gray, a noted kayak instructor and tripper as well as the guy that wrote '</font><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hey-Id-Eat-This-Home/dp/0982819609" id="id_6b4b_a280_71c5_b138">Hey, I'd Eat This at home!</a><font size="4">', an excellent wilderness cookbook with a number of recipes I've personally tested, published a Facebook post expressing concern over the number of kayakers that have had to be rescued this season and wondering how we could prevent these situations. About the time he hit 'post' on his computer on Thursday 8 September, the National Park Service Rangers and the USCG rescue helicopter from Traverse City were fishing two paddlers out of Lake Superior west of Sand Island. The 3' to 6' seas and shallow water made it impossible for rescue boats to get close enough to shore to pick up the two guys. I did not hear or read about any of this until Friday however since I was paddling back to Little Sand Bay from Devils Island with my friend and cohort Rick Hoffman in the midst of Small Craft Warnings.</font></div><div><img id="id_97df_e4b7_7d54_5da8" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibZ2SSV8iTPGE2_easB6-xtghq7RAUEWYpESaj1tGEbvrx_3WW5marwETkP9UtZW17pFIYcedtFyXU5HhW6xIy2WADf2KLiMrkrr1a2yuSGw9AWINIHYrm3tnc96QdVDMKkEJwMrg83lk/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 474px; height: auto;"> <font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Were we brash, daring, devil-may-care, or just plain idiots? What made us decide to paddle back rather than stay another night on Devils since neither of us had a damn thing to do on Friday? I thought that with all the rescues and issues that we've seen this year on the Great Lakes that I would try to shed a little insight on our thought process and the factors that went into the decision to paddle rather than sit. We had paddled out Tuesday after an thunderstorm cell had passed through the area. We waited it out in the Egg Toss Cafe in Bayfield, our first wise decision of the trip, rather than packing in the rain. The paddle out was easy and quick, around 13 miles total. Other than a fog bank that enveloped us for about an hour between York and Bear Island it was pretty basic sea kayak 101. We were prepared for the fog with both paper maps, a nav tool and bearings, as well as waypoints for Bear and Devils programmed into the gps. The water was warm and we had a sandwich and an extended swim on the NE beach of Bear before heading to the white boathouse and dock on the south side of Devils. After camp was set up we listened to the nearshore forecast for Wednesday and decided that we would paddle up to check out the sea caves before supper. This was our second wise decision because the forecast 15-20 knot NE wind, gusting to 25 knots, appeared right on schedule the next morning. The adage in the Apostles, 'if it's blowing before 10am she's gonna blow all damn day' was right on. After lunch and a really nice nap we hiked up the trail, through the protected mosquito breeding area (Gaylord Nelson Wilderness area after all) and up to the light house and keepers complex on the north end. We congratulated ourselves on deciding to paddle the night before and the view of the pounding waves adding more depth and breadth to the sea caves was well worth the stroll. We hiked over to the east landing and were going to check out all of the rock etchings but decided we did not need a shower as the waves were hitting the rocks and spraying water 35' into the air. After a medicinal shot of Bushmills and a couple beers at Happy Hour / supper we listened to the nearshore again. Clearing skies and a west wind 15-20 knots, gusting to 25, with a small craft advisory needed, waves 2-4 feet building to 3-5 feet in the afternoon. Given the historic sketchy accuracy of the NOAA forecasts recently we decided to get up early and eyeball the situation. Early being a relative time, we got up about 7am and had coffee and breakfast. It was apparent from both the rain storm over night and the clouds disappearing to the east that we would have a classic Fall westerly blow and the waves were already splashing over the dock on Devils. Many factors played into our final decision to go. Firstly we had the gear. We were dressed for immersion, not that 70F water would be much of an issue, we had good radios with gps and the MMSI emergency system, map, compass, pfd, paddle float, etc. We also had a couple alternative routes mapped out and chose the one that would give we senior paddlers about an hour of hard paddling interspersed with chow to refuel and some rest breaks. We knew that we had all day and didn't need to rush things one bit. Local experience was key to the decision as well. We knew where the lee shores would be, the sand beaches and spits for breaks and shelter from the wind, and how the wind and waves typically behaved as they curled around points and headlands. By far the biggest factor in our decision to go was the 'been there, done that' element. Both of us had rolled and performed rescuse in conditions bigger than what we encountered. We are very comfortable paddling together and with each others skill level. The Gales Storm Gathering held at various spots on Lakes Superior and Michigan has been key in confidence building on big water. If you want to get better and more confident in big water and push yourself a bit attend this event in early October up in Munising, MI. The practice where you play axiom was driven home personally when my pal Meurer and I were driving back from a paddle trip south of Thunder Bay near Spar and Thompson Islands. As we drove back through Grand Marais, MN he remarked that he was pretty comfortable with his roll but was not sure at all if it would desert him in big water. Outside the harbor the 3-5 footers looked like the perfect place to erase doubts. We stopped, launched, did some successful rolls, coupla rescues, and toasted the successful idea and it's execution in the Gunflint Tavern. Practice where you play, I can't stress that enough.</font></div><div><img id="id_408f_5fd1_8eb2_96f" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzKxXLmswJFd1g0mWuM_SLtekTN6CSnp_36nU0YgzusnTmqVW4FOPHx58gSpyvHMwcmIOeM9xk42Ekmfeb7gBALtfJy137W9yDU2ml-ibnGpZAOXef2RHouuRhVkyMQfP_wD_HIGJ5Jo/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 406px; height: auto;"> <font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">The largest of the waves we encountered were between Devils and Bear as we headed down toward a nice lee on the east side. They were 3-5 footers fairly close together and still building. Progress seemed agonizingly slow although the gps showed a steady 2.7 mph. Staying relaxed, close enough to toss smart assed comments back and forth, and mentally dismissing the effect of the wind in our teeth helped a lot. A bluebird paddle down the east shore of Bear followed by some lunch and R&R on the spit and we were ready for the next crossing of Bear to Raspberry. The waves were a bit smaller and farther apart which was welcome but the wind was relentless. Taking the most powerful paddle stroke as we slid down the face of the waves always seems to help my mental attitude. We got funny looks from a couple sailboaters that crossed in front of us, also ignoring the small craft warning situation. Raspberry spit, more chow to refuel, a swim, BS with some sailors anchored in the lee, and then our next crossing. The wind was still strong and Point Detour is a known and classic pain in the ass to round pretty much in every wind condition. Our plan was to cross to the mainland from Raspberry then edge up around Point Detour. If the wind / waves/ clapotis situation created extreme suction the plan was to just head south to Red Cliff and hitch up to Little Sand Bay to get the truck. Fortunately although the clapotis was acting in its normal, irritating way it just wasn't that bad. We overtook a couple of kayakers also heading to LSB who were making slow but steady progress. After explaining that we really did like our funny wooden paddles we continued on to an uneventful landing.</font></div><div><img id="id_fc4b_128d_dfc6_6547" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaUNx7t9eIFtwbtvrwo5UD3_gLPjnsoawxOJhjIIFkldORXnmjxRFSigX_Yfjd44MN3b5HVvHtv-f2O3Tvcs0OhNjgL0ZjVTp0g9ZSYHDv4VTTBsFwFOo_fm072Biht956dz4vA3arv9w/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 332px; height: auto;"> <font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I hope this little essay helps with some of the risk assessment evaluations that need to be made when deciding whether or not to paddle in conditions. Skill level is the most important followed by correct gear and a float plan with a number of bailout opportuities and options. If it had become real nasty we were prepared to poach a campsite on either Bear or Raspberry. We had both emergency food and adult beverage along for that very contingency. Never ever ever launch because you 'just have to get back' for something. </font><span style="font-size: large;">The most important thing to remember of course is the title of this very blog. The lake is indeed the boss and that needs to be respected and taken into accout at all times.</span></div><div><img id="id_b899_1e25_2626_6945" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZ8bxbWkaRkyik5H01pT8ai2txpYhJzxWi4IbCpq1_qQnemcHKH3Nas-b7a_DXwK-IP81Gdf9RH2KfSCc_F8GkjgNqbrNgcLKMaQCcLYESXT76UbnFv48cCHW7hzezqXAfS5-EZSL3Qo/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 435px; height: auto;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">(Helicopter rescue photo courtesy of National Park Service Rangers. Thanks for the image and everything else)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div>DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-58726646965014541292016-07-28T10:59:00.001-05:002016-07-28T11:05:21.491-05:00Getting Better and some Rallying<img id="id_715d_31cd_423f_7baa" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKodL3nKRqpaQ1n62tSwItnHeDBSCl7LDSoyzhySlP63j28qyqY6iY3cZCkt8XtmZc9-_DLP6jVG80j3Nd7v4_J66q-Td_lMPE6sdIc6_P0HUFj0XJtldGc0B7O0vL1VG2N0hbt_O2sAQ/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 491px; height: auto;"> <font size="4">The annual Great Lake Sea Kayak Symposium is in the books. Attendance was down a bit but the usual flood of late registration chaos insured the usual course and instructor shuffling while the big lake threw in some weather that cancelled some tours and modified others. In other words, the more things change the more they stay the same. What the lake did provide was great conditions for learning. This is not the best for tours, especially the beginner tours that are booked as 'tranquil' but for getting better on big water it was excellent. Thursday we did a beginners primer on Sable Lake and worked through a syllabus that was developed by my buddy Jerome Rausch for our SKOAC club. A solid 10-15 knot wind from the west allowed us really put paddle stroke and boat control skills into play. Its one thing to tell people that their boat will blow away if they do a wet exit and don't hang on to it. Its another thing to watch it blow away. The new sport of log gardening, paddling into, out, and around fallen trees in the water was discovered, and the folks in the class went on to bigger and better skills work on bigger water the next two days. </font><img id="id_ee2b_6fcf_c4c0_3cde" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2XHhGc8laqxG6vFH4MmsmVlqM-Ml9aSaWqXDyK1z3_8ICfc1vYUvpp8Plg_mjHS1OnjBK9j6OrSRUDO42Avb7gtZFq0i7U2mNGHuUhVSfkh08K7SvighZerH562ivqve7RGL39PKw5Y/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 404px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> <div><font size="4">Friday was boat control in the morning and open water boat control in the afternoon. We awoke to 15-20 knots right out of the north and waves that began somewhere on the Canadian shore a couple hundred miles away. Mike Looman, our Current Designs / Wenonah czar, led this session while I mainly tried not to confuse people. Once again the Grand Marais harbor provided nice shelter and conditions got bigger and gnarlier the farther one ventured up the channel toward Gitchee Gumee proper. Perfect learning conditions. That afternoon was open water boat control. Alec Bloyd-Peshkin, a man with whom I share a birthday, albeit a couple years apart, and David Johnston, the Canaidan Ambassador to the UP, ventured outside where the seas had subsided in the afternoon but were still plenty big enough to challenge people as they turned their boats on top of the waves. Again, its one thing to tell people that a bow or stern rudder works better going into conditions or with a following sea but the big lake points this out very clearly when she's rockin'. Saturday was bluebird weather which made for a nice relaxed tour from the Hurricane River to the Grand Sable Dunes and back with a stop at the Au Sable light. We also found two of the three shipwerecks along the stretch of lake known as the Shipwreck Coast. Sunday morning found me working with John Browning on boat repair. My NDK Explorer was the perfect example of a boat sorely in need of repair. The keel strip is beginning to wear, the gel coat on the deck is cracked from various maneuvers over the years, and there is a two inch crack in the side where it half blew off the pickup and struck the side of the bed. I had hoped, being a basically lazy person, that JB would actually fix the crack and was just a little disappointed when he just talked about how to fix it. I could not complain however as the whiskey tasting at the back of his van on Saturday evening was sublime and satisfying as usual, especially with Ray Boucher tending bar.</font></div><img id="id_51ab_e548_ea47_36eb" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjF1jToy5fKilYsTuwnOvYO5wgQqgz2NaLr0JVdCQHnUtT2vtsG47l2U711YeHmqbTPkvnrtavYX88oqfJEvEXW-hdN50hhppA-WzG_tSiuGHOJvCIa8RrL7_3ntxBP0fUbdFUrU_IIA/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 515px; height: auto;"> <div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">The next event on Lake Superior to get better while having fun, next co-ed event anyhow, is the brand spankin' new </font><a href="http://www.trek-trail.com/bayfield-paddle-rally-.html" id="id_1329_36f3_a772_fc80" target="_blank">Bayfield Paddle Rally</a><font size="4"> in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. It's the weekend after Labor Day with great coaches and a fair amount of the chow included. The Fat Radish in Bayfield will be catering the event and trust me folks, that's a very good thing. My buddies at Trek & Trail decided it's time for a paddle event again in the Apostle Islands area with the last one being the Gales event, hamstrung a bit by a ridiculous government shutdown at the time. One of the reasons the Apostles is a world class paddling destination is that the island group always seems to offer a lee to paddle in. Plan B, C, & D are usually available to ger on the water no matter the wind direction and the scenery never disappoints. Here's the other little secret that I hesitate to even mention. It is absolutely the best time of the year to visit Lake Superior. The water is about as warm as it's going to get, the bugs have all surrendered, the three day blows which can strand you on an island don't start until about three weeks later, and.....the best part....the crowds have disappeared. We have done a Fall trip with some cronies since 2000. It always starts the Tuesday after Labor Day and usually lasts a week. The Apostles, Silver Islet, Rossport, the Slates, Lake Superior Provincal park, it really makes no difference. The most people we've seen during this trip, including power boats, is six. For the week. The hot ticket for the Bayfield Paddle Rally in my humble opinion would be to tack a 3-4 day island camping trip on to either end of the event. Or camp at one of the excellent campgrounds in the area, Thompson West End in Washburn, Dalyrymple in Bayfield, or Town of Russel at Little Sand Bay, and do day trips. Excellent motels and B&B's in the area and you can get a room that week, trust me. The weather is typically cooperative as well. The key, now that we are all in mid season paddle form, would be to get the registration in and booked. While late entries always seem to be accomodated it is indeed a PITA.</font></div><img id="id_4d1b_7815_c0d1_1c7b" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUGGVA_aROtJ2ZxbCGbmeJJkjPHJwVLO31a7tqgrirjuAtwqV0Kpt-0ndZoieXPK9WBmWiWcEBsWVovP0kVb7hf8kguSppCFZMMP45ma3T2wjO8zISzBkzVfzVPaLabH3r4aXh0DqJm7c/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 539px; height: auto;"> <div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">One more unique kayak opportunity in the Apostles. Safety boat for the </font><a href="http://www.point2lapointe.com" id="id_a0ef_7646_a4c0_eacf" target="_blank">Point to LaPointe</a><font size="4"> Open Water Swim coming up on Saturday 6 August. Safety boat volunteers get a nice T shirt, a $25 liquo....er, gas card from the IGA, and breakfast on the island before heading back to Bayfield. Just email Scott Armstrong, scott@coacharmstrong.com, and he will get you hooked up. The start is spectacular, the finish line is joyous, and you might even get to nudge a swimmer back on line with your paddle as they resolutely head for Basswood instead of Madeline Island.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">We hope to see lots of long skinny boats up in the Apostles in the next couple months.</font></div>DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-14046154593447310442016-06-28T07:33:00.000-05:002016-06-28T09:04:59.988-05:00Return to the Slate Islands - Lake reasserts Boss status<img id="id_e51d_efb_d1cd_ac66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJd4mN3fgNbXW6XPY-0opZpGjqCKL7ApuBJXB1ulMls3aptVcG8RxW_ZucwU4IP-JSC94-wR1guWqOr_vXykSRByblrAMq1i3zq1U0wb9DeKvWObCa3GwxsiJhCGwrIm7AhrBKdIlv6aI/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 403px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> It's time to get back in the groove with the TLITB blog, especially since I can now see the Boss from my window and am about 95% retired. I am not sure if the lack of posts was due to the chaos with moving, disengagement from work, or the sheer laziness of throwing two lines and a picture up on Facebook. In any event it's time for a bit of extended writing.<br>
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Way back in April our friend Rick, a guy who paddled all the way around Lake Superior on the two weeks a year, 11 years plan, suggested a trip to the Slate Islands in far northern Canadian shore of Gitchee Gumee. Wife Kathy jumped on it immediately, the VoiceOfReason quickly weighing the pros of revisiting one of our favorite spots on the lake. DaveG, a man of no small amount of outdoor experience himself, jumped at the chance to round out the foursome. We got things dialed in, filed a formal float plan, and headed to Terrace Bay. Little did we know that Lake Superior and the Slates would be tossing us a few Bert Blyleven quality curveballs.<img id="id_b2e2_f055_43b9_d91d" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr_gBEHk-lAaC5XFDSXNvXiankhs153uBBM9AjbNc4OX2s-8l94vF5BN3kiQH_9a4ajyrP9zyHZamjpo_FMKZ6s9umza_Gu_s9TF3KUfISVB1Otv-ATzykP22zE-JMBKECUto3Bz1VbI/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 497px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> <br>
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The first curve was waking up to fog that barely allowed us to see across the highway, accompanied by a giant red blob on the radar that appeared to be slowly heading in our direction from somewhere between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We decided that we could easily beat the storm and had gps waypoints on the Slates as well as the venerable nav charts, bearing compass, and clear plastic navigation tool. JB would have been proud! None of us particularly mind a blind crossing other than the lack of scenery, and the fog really softens anything that we did see for a very nice ephemeral quality. We paddled at a steady 3 knots for about two hours and hit Mortimer Island, almost literally because according to the gps we were only 125 meters away when the cliff loomed out of the fog. After skirting around Mortimer into the inner islands we saw tents at the first two camps we passed. We later learned that was the sum total of visitors in the entire archipelago. We camped at a spot we called the junkyard for its pile of debris of an old camp that some boaters had thrown up years ago and then let go to hell. We then encountered curve #2, a biblical plague of black flies and mosquitos. We were prepared with bug shirts and the famous 'bat cave', Dan Cookes rugged adirondack style mosquito tarp combo but still took casualties as we dug the gear out and got things set up . The ruggedness of the tarp ould soon be tested. One of the disconcerting things about the Slates is that the Thunder Bay VHF marine forecast can't be picked up and the Pukusawa / Marathon forecast is on the wrong side of the typical storm approach. The pitter patter of rain hit the tent around 11pm and the defecation hit the rotation around one am Monday morning. Curveball # 3 in spades. Two solid hours of wind, including a couple microbursts that bent the tents down on top of us, tried to shred the bat cave, and knocked down somewhere between 40 and 50 rather substantial spruce and balsam trees in and around the camp. Camping tip: It's much better to batten down everything when its not raining, dark, windy as hell, and you are in your underwear at 2am. We later learned that this same cell killed a man and severely injured his son in the BWCA when a large white pine fell on his tent. It also nearly electrocuted some young girls on an Outward Bound trip with a lightning strike, knocking four of them unconscious and causing 2nd degree burns on others. It was a bad night in the north country.<br>
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Just before we went to bed pre storm a couple wolf researchers from the Ministry stopped by to check their traps in the area. They had trapped and collared a wolf that morning. Apparently a couple years back when the lake froze three wolfs strolled out on the ice and liked the tasty caribou and snowshoe hare treats they found there. The researchers came back the morning after the storm in their Zodiac to check on us, let us know they were OK, and inform us that a tree fell on one of the tents that the two ladies and temporarily trapped one of them. Rick and I went out fishing and stopped by to see how the women were doing. They had driven 18 hours from east of Toronto, a semi annual trip, seasoned women about our age who have husbands that just don't like to camp. They had been hacking at trees for three hours getting their camp back in shape. One was napping but the women that was vertical told us she had to crawl out of her sleeping bag and long johns to get our of her tent. Fortunately it was just branches that pinned her down. In the end we were all either lucky or benefited from a guardian angel. Before we left we attended a show at the Big Top south of Bayfield. It was the opening of the 2016 season and one of the Anishnabe elders, Red Cliff tribe of Ojibwa, smudged the crowd with burning sage and told us that it would chase away bad luck and negative thoughts. There was also a rosaryor two in dry bags. Who knows?<img id="id_7c06_71ad_8697_3bd0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMmZIduUulc_L5Zkq4i3QOjatkmOdgqG3MEzc0yGYUUxl6QEihWhDl2tm3yk-ohoUTOE3rMIofXtBatWKCuNm4XYDHQWLWY6GrQIaJW-7VOCeazBiId1XSrCGXuaNZY_LaReei67HgYo/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 380px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> <br>
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The rest of the trip was bluebird weather, favorable winds and seas, and diminished insect attacks. The scenery was spectacular as we circumnavigated Patterson Island and viewed the Sunday Harbor light. Rocks, cliffs, and view of the Canadian mainland were all fantastic. One of the highlights was the old clawfoot tub, the wood fired hot tub, at the Come N Rest camp on McColl Island. It wven has a piece of playwood to avoid burning ones tender ass when you clim in and ease into the hot water. Unlike a lot of hot tubs the water just keeps getting hotter as long as the fire is stoked and my guess is that a person would be hard pressed to find a better view. <img id="id_f801_a282_29c7_5165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOi4m8veFkfwO1cpOU0pFem_ymiwiU5vVi00uoPsayZjs0zNfHCvYeW_adEWwg9xfV2xDoI5NipVbVxTmrgHUGK3I73aE-x43g9UUFEsJqYc0jbl2NEBC6FfqcF5PrYbhkFWB3rrJPn6k/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 166px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> Lake Trout were caught and eaten and the return crossing was on bright sun with full visibility and a very accomodating quartering SE sea over our right shoulders for a nice push back to the mainland. Our landing and launch site was on a long cobble beach in Jackfish Bay, about 250 meters up and over the Canadian Pacific main track that connects eastern and western Canada. By the time we had dragged boats, gear, and our aging carcasses to the vehicles we were ready for the traditional post paddle community bump of Irish whiskey. But the storm still had one lingering surprise for us. A lot of the electronics in both cars, including clocks, warning lights, compass, etc., were screwed up from what must have been a very close lighting strike. It was a fitting end to our Slate Islands adventure. <img id="id_5010_d35e_4383_6d14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uKbhayetTz9PaxB86rjdYblZ4J1nkBv3mmNnxzN8pkaSSvs-AoPrIQXL1weteldnRtOs7MItksV7neHHcNABlFOPUPPa7atZCOEA5ykzFvxqdNpIYkKheyPcfnm7HAPsVrAyJlY8B0Q/" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 332px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> <br>
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<br>DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-83619332260886961442014-12-27T11:50:00.000-06:002014-12-27T11:51:58.199-06:00Deer Camp 2014 - the abridged version<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The recent Federal court ruling banning the Great Lakes wolf hunts combined with some time off have inspired me to get off my butt.....actually that's not true, more like come inside and sit down at the computer for awhile and write my annual deer camp update. The most telling story on how the hunt went for me was when I went in for my monthly/bimontly massage. I made the comment to Jan that she hadn't found any knot or areas of stiffness to poke at and torment me with to the point of my crying Uncle. She said no, she really hadn't found any tight spots at all and asked if I was doing some sort of exercise or stretching. After about ten seconds of thought it dawned on me that I had just completed the most effective tension and stress reducer ever known: nine days at deer camp.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3AhKDEnzIwXduhMZXDcdilSpaS-Ke4zTiJRRYkr95IBVD1npbMPsjyAT2KsPhqy64RM8NQH6zv5cMXmugQBgoyXK58HYv7LQjQnP_tN5FUhNijnlR0s_4Rf-_xeKQHKAGS8ygK-PUVcs/s1600/DSC_0230.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGCnDXQOPUFw3lv1_ZzkTrbBkOPVX2M6361ASywjx2DcRtfY2e2Xa7I2GsLwmEYTizPEqDYL50yvf9-ruoQ579aGX3MFuOaM6IYNa6CAxUMm3Dv2J14CQBO0XQE2ja6TD152yvngvglQ/s1600/DSC_0272.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGCnDXQOPUFw3lv1_ZzkTrbBkOPVX2M6361ASywjx2DcRtfY2e2Xa7I2GsLwmEYTizPEqDYL50yvf9-ruoQ579aGX3MFuOaM6IYNa6CAxUMm3Dv2J14CQBO0XQE2ja6TD152yvngvglQ/s1600/DSC_0272.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a>There are a combination of things that make for a stress free week, not the least of which is the lack of the human produced soundtrack of traffic, chatter, mechanical and electronic noise, and other never ending noise that seems to follow us around daily. Lack of cell towers and zero bars is a very welcome thing as well and I don't mind driving to a hill 6-7 miles away to get my two bars for some important call I need to make. My low tolerance for electronic noise was highlighted a few years back when I went Psycho on a hapless Rudolph the Red Nosed reindeer pot holder that played that hideous Christmas song from a small chip hidden somewhere in the potholder. A vicious and repeated stabbing with a large chef's knife did what a dozen or so hot summers and freezing winters could not accomplish. Lack of schedule is another huge stress reliever. Go to bed when you want, get up when you want, hunt when you want, read when you want....you get the drift. Also, I don't believe I've ever heard the word 'appopriate' spoken at camp. Nothing is inappropriate and there are few spots on the planet where that it true. I am not sure why but one of the most liberating aspects of camp is walking out and peeing off the deck. Thanks to the invention of the GoGirl this freedom is now a co-ed activity. I haven't figured out why but no one at camp will argue that it isn't one of the ultimate expressions of freedom that we enjoy the third week of November. One of our favorite activities is the free form happy hour that occurs nightly when we all wander back in from the woods. In the opening scene of Lonesome Dove Gus MacRae is sitting on the porch sipping whiskey and waxing eloquent about that misty state between stone sober and drunk. I always like to think that is my goal before starting supper. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3AhKDEnzIwXduhMZXDcdilSpaS-Ke4zTiJRRYkr95IBVD1npbMPsjyAT2KsPhqy64RM8NQH6zv5cMXmugQBgoyXK58HYv7LQjQnP_tN5FUhNijnlR0s_4Rf-_xeKQHKAGS8ygK-PUVcs/s1600/DSC_0230.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3AhKDEnzIwXduhMZXDcdilSpaS-Ke4zTiJRRYkr95IBVD1npbMPsjyAT2KsPhqy64RM8NQH6zv5cMXmugQBgoyXK58HYv7LQjQnP_tN5FUhNijnlR0s_4Rf-_xeKQHKAGS8ygK-PUVcs/s1600/DSC_0230.jpg" height="132" width="200" /></a>As the camp cook I am responsible for most of the suppers during the week. Sipping Bushmills most definitely makes the cooking more enjoyable along with the lack of expectation as to when it might be served. Later supper just means one more drink before eating. The menu is rigid; no chicken and dumplings Sunday night or substituting for Tuesday's corned beef and cabbage would result in open revolt. Still, the actual cooking on the 1924 Detroit Jewel propane stove is a relaxing way to start the evening for me. Even wood splitting and water pumping for the camp due to no central heat, electricity, or plumbing is just not a stress producing activity. Actually the only event that cause a bit of a shudder is girding ones loins for the dark o'clock morning trip to the 10F outhouse. It's the only part of the experience I could truly do without, even with the 1980's vintage Playboys that have been there since the outhouse was constructed.<br />
Enough about the relaxation, were any deer shot? This was quite possibly the worst year as far as deer sightings in the past twenty or so. We took two 8 point bucks, both on opening day and that was it. As Pod put it, everyone at camp shot every damn buck they saw! Last years brutal and endless winter killed a lot of fawns and yearlings and this year we did not see a single spiked buck on any of the game cameras. I saw one deer on the woods and one on the road after hunting a minimum of 4 hours per day for the entire season. All the deer spotted on camera or from the stands seemed to be healthy and well fed, likely due to less deer and more food. This winter will tell the tale on how the herd rebounds.<br />
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Toward the end of the season we cut the tracks of 3 or 4 wolves on the property. We were happy that they had survived both the wolf and deer hunting season. Above you see a picture of a healthy wolf that happened to wander by one of the game cameras we had out in the woods. Later Pod shot a nice eight point buck on that very spot. So much for the theory that once the wolves move in the deer all are eaten or move out. Also, the horrible losses of livestock, pets, and hunting dogs to wolf predation seems to mainly be a financial loss to we Wisconsin taxpayers. If you take time to read the <a href="http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/wolf/documents/WolfDamagePayments.pdf">WI DNR wolf damage payment summary</a>, you will find that we taxpayers have paid out almost $2 million bucks since 1985. Bear dogs seem to be the most frequent victims and high buck payoff species, $2,500 a pop, but I guess when you run a pack of canines through another canines territory, especially with pups in the dens, that bad things are gonna happen. You can read about how the system works <a href="http://wiwildlifeethic.org/2012/06/21/the-livestock-depredation-payment-gravy-train-and-wolves-as-scapegoats/">here</a>, although the article is admittedly not written by a DNR employee. No one at our camp seems to mind a bit of competition from the wolves and seeing the tracks, a rare sighting, and hearing them at night just reminds us that we are just visitors to the wild.<br />
There is no such thing as a bad deer camp, just ones with more or less deer that other years. A couple folks did leave early this year but one had duties at home and the other was in the rut, both acceptable excuses. Once again we came out tanned and rested, a bit of venison in the freezer, and our little wolf pack intact. All said and done not a bad way to end the season.DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-37426146450633798102014-10-09T08:08:00.001-05:002014-10-09T08:09:41.173-05:00Gales at the Gales<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>Last weekend found a group of 60 or so eager students and a
couple dozen equally eager coaches in Munising, MI for the 4<sup>th</sup>
annual Gales Storm Gathering, a grad school level symposium on how to handle
sea kayaks in what we all hoped would be some larger conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I coached at the GLSKS earlier in the summer
but I was quite appropriately in the student category for this event, although
I was forced to don my coaching helmet briefly on the last day but more on that
later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our intrepid foursome of myself,
the ManFromSnowyLegs, StripperDave, and the MalmuteWhisperer all gathered at a
nice VRBO cabin in Christmas, MI with a great view of Grand Island and a
nearshore forecast that promised to deliver those conditions that we all drove
6-7 hours to work and learn in.<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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The first day was the most benign as we eased up the east
side of Grand Island toward the tip of the thumb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cliffs and indentations made for some fun
rock gardening practice as well as some mini surfing at our lunch spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also got a bit of a taste of what was to
come the next couple days as we rounded the point and got a bit of the building
NW wind, maybe 15 knots gusting to 20 or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone seemed to be pushing it a bit, trying to improve, because at
least three of us took a swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>StripperDave ventured in close to the rocks and his lovely strip boat
which was based on the Impex Outer Island hull, and got a couple scrapes as it
went over near the cliffs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dragged him
out from the rocks and we did what we both thought was a pretty sweet T
rescues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did a couple more simulated
rescue scenarios on the way back and had an exercise with ‘the blind leading
the blind’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was paired with Sharon
Bustamante, the two Greenland sticks in the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The game was played with the lead paddler
closing their eyes and the trailing one giving directions on which strokes to
use to stay away from the cliffs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
became apparent quickly that ‘two left sweeps’ was a lot more effective and
specific than ‘turn right’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bit of
towing ended the day and we headed back to the launch at Sand Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some rescue practice pointed out that we
needed to come out of our boats more often and that I was in need of an
instructor update sooner rather than later.</div>
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morning was raining, miserable, and windy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got geared up and dragged ourselves down to Sydneys, our local HQ
which played on the Australian theme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our very own Australian, the ManFromSnowyLegs, questioned the
authenticity of most of the genre but we all agreed that with a nice room of
our own upstairs, three squares with as much chow as we cared to eat including
a nice sack lunch, and a keg of Keweenaw Pickaxe Blonde Ale on tap, that it was
indeed a perfect spot to gather before and after the anticipated carnage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>After breakfast and our morning briefing we adjourned
to the shores of beautiful Au Train Bay with it’s 40F temps and wind in our
face either side of 20 knots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That drove
the rain nicely sideways and added to the ambiance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpSaVj96oZ3E1RfXSxQyIEPNR96Iq9Er50AELlVddQaH8V828ycDg1Cf-UpoV-7BjoFKL8YTcmYl3oYdg6bsfGtE8YQYnUByYMn_3qYtqgT3XYEiN2qJgwB2fGKWVnEl8pgTPPpJym2E/s1600/DSC_0010.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpSaVj96oZ3E1RfXSxQyIEPNR96Iq9Er50AELlVddQaH8V828ycDg1Cf-UpoV-7BjoFKL8YTcmYl3oYdg6bsfGtE8YQYnUByYMn_3qYtqgT3XYEiN2qJgwB2fGKWVnEl8pgTPPpJym2E/s1600/DSC_0010.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a> </span>We all paddled up the river to work on the
sweep pivot and power strokes to catch a wave and then studied the water we
would be surfing. We collectively answered three questions put to us by Mr.
Wikle and Mr. Stachovak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We plotted the
best route to break out, estimate the waves at 3’ or less, and agreed that the
main danger would be from each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were pretty much wrong on all three of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of us got pounded a bit on our ‘ideal’ route out, the waves were
closer to four feet with the occasional three sisters set a bit larger, and we
all pretty much avoided the danger of one another but a large sandbar about 50
yards out got our attention very quickly.</div>
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sooner than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my personal three
involuntary inversions I managed to roll up twice and swam once. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some did better than that, others not as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did find that sandbar first however with a
spectacular endo or pitchpole if you prefer, that landed me hull side up and
forced me to bail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my fellow
students, Aaron from Loyola in Chicago, hit the same sandbar only he was able
to pirouette his endo around 360 degrees and land the thing hull side
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Thompson from Downwind was
taking pictures and captured the entire outstanding sequence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0eBI44JVDzO_d2RmgJUK3gLVL5_DvIBznjpNtuSRokL9oqjSACbxebhiyOzLS5Zi72vPsgZ823LFIb496N0_zfRiizhHKsZoWW9Z72quUazU8BYf7HaRl_quCUG9qyH1fT2X2QD51nRY/s1600/photo+3.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBytw9wsDnsvws5MXqpt-LXpDJwLowHvPMfU1ppllk6nqAPHop9nkR8odzWMaLqrqZhPMtV3J3hZkDdSdZkrsPn8DAe9fHadDgh6NHuUq-M4mq_owO_IbRZ6JoUK8PhcT7zhBm-e9Az9E/s1600/DSC_0039.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>The coaching from Keith Wikle and Jake Sachovak was both
timely and specific, although Jakes analysis of my bow plant was a bit more
detailed than Keith’s, “Nice endo Olson!”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The common thread and a comment that I heard over and over was
complimenting the quality of the coaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jake pointed out to me that with longboats we need to be a bit further
back on the wave to avoid that bow plant and give us a better chance to steer
the boat with a stern rudder than if the bow was planted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span> </span>After all of us swam the coached suggested
that we paddle back and forth in the soup a bit to get used to bracing,
bouncing, and general chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBytw9wsDnsvws5MXqpt-LXpDJwLowHvPMfU1ppllk6nqAPHop9nkR8odzWMaLqrqZhPMtV3J3hZkDdSdZkrsPn8DAe9fHadDgh6NHuUq-M4mq_owO_IbRZ6JoUK8PhcT7zhBm-e9Az9E/s1600/DSC_0039.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBytw9wsDnsvws5MXqpt-LXpDJwLowHvPMfU1ppllk6nqAPHop9nkR8odzWMaLqrqZhPMtV3J3hZkDdSdZkrsPn8DAe9fHadDgh6NHuUq-M4mq_owO_IbRZ6JoUK8PhcT7zhBm-e9Az9E/s1600/DSC_0039.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a>After going
over twice and rolling up both times Jake also pointed out that, to use Scott
Fairty’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>axiom, keep moving and even if
you are doing the wrong thing, do it aggressively and with purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more involuntary inversions for the
session after that gem, even though the waves were building and Keith made the
observation that any learning was pretty much over and it became an afternoon
of paddling out and attempting to head back in upright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One nice feature of surfing with a Greenland
stick, a trick I learned from Mike McDonald at an earlier Gales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>When you have a neutral stern rudder with an
extended Greenland stick, you have immense leverage to help turn the boat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I happened to be using a carbon fiber stick
lent to me by none other than FivePieceRoy and it worked perfectly.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_P7Sq_6IQzPrR4ESywItKII1HCXxMz7axr2h_jIs_inVKAyQncZcdKU57sQI5xtaAoPcfo118k2omnvoj2Og2Ba5HBL76Q5OGxsezJ-3InMTYsDpgLshbeZDJE-GgLcN-euYOPe7mAf8/s1600/photo+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>So far two days of excellent learning and as much fun as you
can have when you’re sitting down, but the forecast indicated that wind and
waves would be decreasing throughout Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we arrived at Miner’s Castle Beach we discovered that this was not
the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surf was rolling in and the
veer from west northwest to a southwest wind only funneled the wind up the
channel between Miners Castle and Grand Island like a bellows on a blacksmith’s
forge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How strong it was blowing would
not become apparent until we rounded Miners Castle point but to begin with we
headed the other way toward the main Pictured Rocks area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After paddling about 300 yards and having the
group separated by 100 yards it was decided to head back into the lee of Grand
Island, which reduced the fetch from about 30 miles to five or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The waves, clapotis, and tour boat wakes
thrown in for good measure created that gigantic upside down egg carton paddle
that we all talk about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heading back to
the southwest brought us to Miner’s Castle point, which was perfect as it had
relatively benign swells to play in on the lee side and 20 knots or so of wind
and confused seas reflecting off the cliffs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I played a bit in the wind and waves and then headed back to the lee
where I was forced to put on my instructor helmet by Jeremy Vore who ‘didn’t
like them odds’ of 6 paddlers and one instructors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then planned and executed our surf
landings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As StripperDave, the last guy
to land pointed out,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was like a Monty
Python movie;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people would land and then
fall over when the next wave nailed them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s Dave’s head in the image below, photographic credit Sam Crowley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ManFromSnowyLegs was not nearly ready to
be done and was out playing with Jake until the last dog died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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I would have to say that this Gales, the third one I’ve
attended, was the best by far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conditions were part of it, coaching a huge part, but it seemed like
things just came together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gathering
place at Sydney’s seemed to fit our needs perfectly and the paddling spots were
within 30 minutes of the restaurant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
also discovered a nice little brewpub a half blocks walk from Sydneys, an
amenity that we partook of a couple three times over the weekend. In the case
of southerly winds, a situation that occurred the first year, Manistique and
Lake Michigan are about 45 minutes south.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the MFSL and I can attest, it gets plenty big there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, I can’t say enough about the
coaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a veteran group and they
kicked collective ass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are an
intermediate paddler looking to gain some big water techniques and experience,
this is the spot in the Great Lakes area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We all agreed on the ride home that ‘next year in Munising’ would be
something we would be looking forward to over our summer of paddling.</div>
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For the first time all summer I’ve been able to both camp on
an island in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and also get off my ass and
write a blog post about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pretty
much had to write this post as a confession of poor judgment, bad luck, good
luck, of maybe just a bit of stupidity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can read the story and decide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It turned out well but easily could have been a very problematic day on
Outer Island, due in part to a phenomenon that I’ve never seen in decades 0on
the big lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5-kVqvaNSQUa20aMUdybAjpTEosU3xUdPGpmL2F6ad1UJHIca1a81WSq8vwFnuuQU9TjMhzWCDmsBFvXcty-zf-ML7ZBng8Mntie33owz4hV6s9Yov9tW4CrLYgZf9zKSh_n6YgttaA/s1600/photo.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5-kVqvaNSQUa20aMUdybAjpTEosU3xUdPGpmL2F6ad1UJHIca1a81WSq8vwFnuuQU9TjMhzWCDmsBFvXcty-zf-ML7ZBng8Mntie33owz4hV6s9Yov9tW4CrLYgZf9zKSh_n6YgttaA/s1600/photo.JPG" height="320" width="180" /></a>We had a nice little trip, 50 miles or so, scheduled over
five days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironwood the first night, two
nights on Outer to let us run up to the lighthouse on the north end at our
leisure, and then Manitou on the way back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a different trio than the normal Fall trip that I’ve been on
since 2000 with most of the original principals scattered from Scotland to a
raft on the Grand Canyon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no
drop in either quality or conviviality however, with long time paddle buddies
the ManFromSnowyLegs and the BessemerConvivialist rounding out this fall
trio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weather was perfect as we launched
from Red Cliff but that quickly changed as it easily can on Superior in the
fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About halfway up Manitou Island we
saw small marauding bands of rain squalls moving from west to east.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We crossed from Manitou to Ironwood just
before the storm indicated in that radar image hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were the little blue dot and were very
happy that we successfully scrambled to get up tents and tarps before the
deluge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wednesday morning was beautiful and
we did a quick crossing to Cat and then Outer with a nice quartering tail
breeze that made the 8 miles or so a pleasant two hour dawdle on a lovely
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again as it had on Tuesday,
the sky clouded up and thunder began to rumble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This one missed us to the south but we saw the most spectacular chain lightning
that any of us had witnessed in years simply hammering the Upper Michigan shore
25 miles away. Before the storm hit we could actually make out the ski flying
hill at Copper Peak just north of Bessemer thirty miles distant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are far, far worse ways to spend an
evening than sitting in camp, drinking beer, and watching an outstanding
lightning show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all agreed on that
before we went to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also agreed
that given the forecast for Friday that predicted 15-25 knot northwesterly
winds gusting to 35 knots, that we would abandon Outer and find an island camp
situated closer in to avoid any dozen plus mile slogs into wind and waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbzAIPJs90Pi5gLMm4J7AyX4CgaCdqiDJS9a_Sk2IzJs1kvQXHcP1MDLDSapdhYAXzCkG2O3agq4E4zd18qWXvjYyO0pXb9IAgz2XkAoNtLwr0PVtn55N8FN1Rq5BhZPH1HbiZH4e4f4/s1600/photo+2.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbzAIPJs90Pi5gLMm4J7AyX4CgaCdqiDJS9a_Sk2IzJs1kvQXHcP1MDLDSapdhYAXzCkG2O3agq4E4zd18qWXvjYyO0pXb9IAgz2XkAoNtLwr0PVtn55N8FN1Rq5BhZPH1HbiZH4e4f4/s1600/photo+2.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>I was awakened shortly after midnight by the MFSL informing
me that my boat was gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had heard
waves breaking on shore and got up to check on things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike Meatloaf’s famous song, in this case
two out of three (boats) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i>
bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two foot waves with an incredibly
long wave length were breaking and rolling well up the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was not a breath of wind and there hadn’t
even been a breeze when we went to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While we had all dragged our boats up we had not tied them up and mine
was at roughly a 45 degree angle to the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>‘Was’ being the operant phrase at this point. Luckily the MFSL spotted a
white line gently bobbing about a hundred yards offshore and I verified it with
the headlamp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had closed all hatches
and put the cockpit cover on and the boat had slipped off the beach, cleanly
making its escape to its comfortable spot just outside the break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My buddy was halfway geared up to paddle out
and retrieve the boat so my only contribution to the recovery effort was to
assist in the launch and landing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
BessemerConvivialist provided strong moral support as she listened to this
fairly muffled and incomprehensible back and forth from her sleeping bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boat was rescued, all three were lashed
up to a fallen White Pine, and we crawled back to our sleeping bags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The morning brought constant thunder and lightning beginning
around 8am with a NE wind blowing and the waves jumping up to three to five feet
in the channel between Outer and Stockton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The nearshore forecast said waves two feet or less but we remembered
that 20 miles from Red Cliff and 25 or so to Saxon Harbor did not really
quality as ‘within five miles of shore’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got on the water around one pm, thanks to prudent counsel from the BessemerConvivialist who reminded me that I promised not to drag her out in 'uncomfortable' conditions, and paddled back to Oak Island and spent two nights on the
spit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We had great fun in the large following seas with minimal wind thanks to the BC's insistence we wait for the wind to ratchet down a bit. </span>Saturday morning was perfect
bluebird weather and we headed back to Red Cliff in time for a 11:30 date with
a Whitefish basket and pint of South Shore Nut Brown at Morty’s Pub in
Bayfield.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNnJPq0Uv09YxYWq7DfviEBGX4xmsOT67NDgCSlsGva1y7swGL7sCqg7lAVa-Td8QYskmBN0Td1KbNU9ytzrGSAMldQX7aAJyQ1Xe85CALwoeeCOO-_mDTRYIgIlb7oskW8ZszhpBo4CU/s1600/photo+3.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNnJPq0Uv09YxYWq7DfviEBGX4xmsOT67NDgCSlsGva1y7swGL7sCqg7lAVa-Td8QYskmBN0Td1KbNU9ytzrGSAMldQX7aAJyQ1Xe85CALwoeeCOO-_mDTRYIgIlb7oskW8ZszhpBo4CU/s1600/photo+3.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>Lessons learned?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
the masthead on this thing reads, good judgment comes from experience;
experience comes from bad judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
fairly certain that I will never crawl into the tent again without my boat tied
to the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Outer campsite had moved
about 150yds north after a storm knocked down a bunch of trees at the original
site. The beach is narrower and the NPS even built a lovely set of steps from a
big cedar log to get up the bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
vegetation was nonexistent right up to the base of the steps, a dead giveaway
about how high the waves reached<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but
with the nearshore forecast and personal observation indicating a calm night I
guess I ignored the potential.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
again Gitchee Gumee proved that she was the boss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We pondered over coffee the next morning just
where the hell the swells had come from with no wind to drive them and
speculated it was that storm we were watching the evening<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was only when we got back on the weekend that I read about a seiche,
our normally tiny mini tide, that had <a href="http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2014/09/great_lakes_tidal_wave_causes.html">reached
up to five feet in the Sault due to the storms</a> and quickly changing wind
directions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was just about the time
that it hit.</div>
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The other good question would be what would we have done if
the boat had decided to head north or go visit Ontonagon instead of bobbing
docilely 100 yards offshore?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This could
have been a very real possibility had not the MFSL awoken when he did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would not have woken up and the BC wasn’t
going anywhere, seiche excitement be damned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>‘When at sea the number is three’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>is a good adage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure a
search for the kayak would have ensued the next morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had the kayak not been located, an
embarrassing radio<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>call to the Coast
Guard would have been needed since there is zero cell coverage on Outer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw exactly one sailboat off Ironwood the
whole time we were in the outer ring of islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple hundred bucks to the shuttle boat
service would have been the only option <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>since neither the BC nor MFSL wanted me on
their back deck for twenty miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I hereby swear to tie the boat up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I think back, I’ve actually witnessed a
couple close calls with boats over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One was at the GLSKS when a large wind sucked a bunch of boats that we
thought were securely up on the beach into Grand Marais Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other was a day on Sand Island at the
north camp when we actually pulled the boats up on the berm and Gitchee Gumee
proceeded to erode the berm from a yard behind our sterns pretty much up to
amidships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is also illustrates the
‘one little thing’ aspect of sea kayaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Life jacket, spare skirt and paddle, pump & float, dressed for immersion,
radio, etc., etc., would have all been moot with no boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately most situations that end really
badly are when errors tend to compile and make it impossible to back off or
recover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks mainly to my good buddy
the ManFromSnowyLegs,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the possibility of
compounding errors was nipped in the bud. I would encourage paddlers to think
like good pool players, two or three shots ahead, as wey practice our sport.</div>
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DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-46351699647844518672014-05-19T14:32:00.000-05:002014-05-19T14:32:18.781-05:00Fun With Ice<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The ice is finally out, or at least in the distance, in our
little corner of the Lake Superior paddling world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My ‘go to’ launch for short trips and fitness
paddling is the north side of the coal dock in Washburn, WI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a nice scenic jaunt out to Houghton
Point with a couple stacks and a couple small caves along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The above photo was the first Saturday in
May, two weeks ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The image below was
taken a week ago Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_AXujlgB7X3FxvvmfjbxOdYpU6UJAc-kETfTEfmeD0bx-RjXG8UrUSPIMHlc1Xijo-_SwYHNJPfdKDJwFOOMPxfH7oNr9865ZRxIufQQk6R6iOov39RyosMpZu4rDWPizbOQmMnI6Q8/s1600/iceout+%281%29.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_AXujlgB7X3FxvvmfjbxOdYpU6UJAc-kETfTEfmeD0bx-RjXG8UrUSPIMHlc1Xijo-_SwYHNJPfdKDJwFOOMPxfH7oNr9865ZRxIufQQk6R6iOov39RyosMpZu4rDWPizbOQmMnI6Q8/s1600/iceout+(1).JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>Although the
launch area is clear, ice can be seen on the horizon and mini icebergs are
still floating around in the bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Water
temp seems to be at an even 34F pretty much all over the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sat photo would seem to indicate that we
are one of the few areas on the lake still ‘blessed’ with a fair amount of
ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saxon Harbor is still frozen in and
it appears that the area from Duluth Harbor to Port Wing still has plenty.</div>
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I can’t complain however since the ice is gone a full week
ahead of last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ice and snow
have wreaked havoc with a number of different things however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The county crews are out replacing signs that
were blasted over by the snowplow wake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many homes were damaged when the wind pushed the ice up on the land in
inexorably inland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a more minor
disaster, the hop trellis in my yard collapsed (gasp!) due to the weight of ice
and snow on top of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the
Madeline Island ferry has been delayed and cancelled due to the ice pack that
refuses to melt being pushed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>around the
lake by the wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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seemed to be busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>got<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a text
from ChrisG<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saying that not only was it
too nice to work but that there was a pretty big iceberg floating between
Bayfield and Madeline Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our three
man group was launched within the hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
icebergs are a result of a big northeast blow early in the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It piled up plates of 8” ice and stacked them
like cordwood along the area of Friendly Valley Rd and Bayview beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are fairly certain that they are what are
floating around in the bay and west channel at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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the intention of paddling more than a couple miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed like it took a long time to get to
the ice but of course perspective on the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>water, especially with your ass literally on the water, can be
tricky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our guess is that this berg was
about 100’ x 60’ and at least 8-10 feet high in the highest spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most icebergs 70% of it was under water
and the super clear ice with the sun refracting though it made the base look
like we were in the Caribbean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A quick
hand in the water dispelled that fantasy very quickly however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4zYIZNNyt3PRR85Jq_3o3wenZQKRnnr-_AuYvNNq9XGk00vQrJTsH5U58eg41KUO8YoVd736909vo6oBVrkbeVVJsTAkqX-XQ8Eh9W8hk24kkidxSEAc_hINUv7jncWVyklyKaBzaJI/s1600/photo+2.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4zYIZNNyt3PRR85Jq_3o3wenZQKRnnr-_AuYvNNq9XGk00vQrJTsH5U58eg41KUO8YoVd736909vo6oBVrkbeVVJsTAkqX-XQ8Eh9W8hk24kkidxSEAc_hINUv7jncWVyklyKaBzaJI/s1600/photo+2.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>We paddled around it a few times, ChrisG
blasted up on it and ate his sandwich, and we got some good pictures of the
beast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is yet another one of those
Lake Superior ‘you don’t see this every day’ experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Next weekend is Memorial Day and the annual wood splitting
festival on Saturday morning at Camp O.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
plan is to sneak up to Saxon Harbor and check out the progress of the
melt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of the Gales participants from
last Fall remember our launch and paddle up to the Montreal River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year that could be the absolutely last
place that there is ice on the big lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unless we get a south blow and then all bets are off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fingers are crossed for one more ice paddle,
a rarity on Memorial<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Day weekend.</div>
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This year the ice caves at Mawikiwe Bay on Lake Superior went
viral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Apostle Islands National
Lakeshore had record visitors, businesses in the whole Bayfield peninsula
had an amazing windfall, and visitors were both pleased and amazed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last time people could visit the caves on
foot was about five years ago if memory serves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No one knows how long it will be until the climate cooperates once again
to allow foot traffic out that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although five years seems like a long time, it's nothing compared to the
exceedingly rare appearance of the Houghton Falls Ice Tables.</div>
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No one knows how long it's been since the tables last
appeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are created by a perfect
storm of miserably cold weather and big dumps of snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This combination causes the culvert under the
old Ashland to Bayfield railway to plug up with ice and snow and raises the
level of Houghton Creek precipitously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The newly formed pond than promptly freezes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This condition was noted by the GreenThumbChef
as she strolled along the path a week or so ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alarmed, she notified the crack team of
culvert unpluggers at the Town of Bayview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A crew of thawing professionals, led by the town chairman Mr. Charly Ray, arrived on the
scene and fired up a steam unit to thaw the culvert before it washed out the
entire road bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Success was achieved,
the water dropped, the rail bed was saved, but the ice remained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It not only remained but remained in spectacular fashion.</div>
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spots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water all drained out and
left large plates of ice, almost a foot thick, some the size of a car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the really spectacular thing was the ice
that was supported by two or more trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It left an entire outdoor patio's worth of tables and benches, all made of ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I visited the site yesterday with my
faithful hound, Monk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Word must have gotten out because for the first time in my experience there was a car parked on Houghton Falls Road, overflow from the 8 car lot
at the start of the trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guess is
that the BART shuttle from The Snug, Patsy's Bar, and points north and south
will start next weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would also
suggest having Washburn Ambulance on site because the whole area is full of
foot thick blocks of tilted ice, major concussion country in my opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had been thinking and brought a couple
beers it would have been the perfect afternoon, high forties, sunny, and a
frozen bar to keep the beer cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alas,
forethought was not my strong point that sunny afternoon.</div>
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the warm spring weather, although they are kind of 'down in the hole', away from
direct sunlight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This weekend, typically
the start of mud month, was anything but.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ice road from Bayfield to Madeline Island is still intact with a
solid three feet of ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RangerMark and
I were the only skiers at Valhalla on Sunday morning, where there was literally
a four foot base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday night featured
some rolling at the salt water pool of the Bayfield Rec Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was preceded by an exciting Badger basketball win Saturday night which sent them to the Final Four, a game I watched at Patsy's
Bar while nursing a Widow Maker or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plus I got all our fruit trees pruned without climbing up a ladder. The four feet of
snow in the yard gave me just enough elevation to make a ladder unnecessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say what you will about this winter but the
delayed spring ain't so bad at this point from my where I'm sitting</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfVknc7Nk9AZLS-qFpDGyEizBvCMLp9O5pH3cXVSmDmh_QM8rbv500_d7lMssbVT4BnZw1gmJm37IgaENAbYh1BY2EowwRPG4xItF4DNT0Lx42IcaaoX37qGuJUYAqT132tuDoXvjgXY/s1600/DSC_0036_edited.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Since I was a little kid the 'long pole in the tent', the
Achilles heel, the limiting factor for outdoor tolerance in Great Lakes winters
has been feet and footwear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the
feet get cold the choice is to go inside or risk frostbit toes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike hands which can be stuffed under the
armpits or the core, which can be warmed up by another layer, there isn't a
hell of a lot that can be done for the feet. Our family activity, before we all
started skiing, was ice fishing. When I was young military surplus was the hot
ticket. The old man at one time owned Bunny boots, Korean boots, and fleece
lined USAAF boots used by the poor SOB's who flew high altitude, below zero
missions in B-17's and B-24's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of
these were really great and there was no such thing as a kids size that could
be handed down from a waist gunner on a Flying Fortress, so we were stuck with
the rubber 'insulated' crap that was available in the late '50's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The green rubber 'Donald Duck' boots with the
yellow sole were next to worthless and so was the technique of three pairs of
socks and a bread bag over each foot before stuffing them into oversize leather
boots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In both cases the warmth lasted
about a half hour, the feet would sweat inside the moisture barrier and within
the hour feet would be blocks of ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The one combo that worked the best for we kids were felts and
overshoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfVknc7Nk9AZLS-qFpDGyEizBvCMLp9O5pH3cXVSmDmh_QM8rbv500_d7lMssbVT4BnZw1gmJm37IgaENAbYh1BY2EowwRPG4xItF4DNT0Lx42IcaaoX37qGuJUYAqT132tuDoXvjgXY/s1600/DSC_0036_edited.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfVknc7Nk9AZLS-qFpDGyEizBvCMLp9O5pH3cXVSmDmh_QM8rbv500_d7lMssbVT4BnZw1gmJm37IgaENAbYh1BY2EowwRPG4xItF4DNT0Lx42IcaaoX37qGuJUYAqT132tuDoXvjgXY/s1600/DSC_0036_edited.JPG" height="213" width="320" /></a> </span>I<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>m
pretty sure that<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>s what I<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>m wearing in the vintage image of my
sister and I ice fishing. A thick felt bootie, not meant to be walked in, was
covered by a basic pair of overshoes, usually buckle because zippers
froze,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was indeed the right track.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVjOzzIiJeEd1U26l5H5tb3LaCv9X8SK0PVtwH_-OH4YeOmEnuPDAlymrRcfV9TwLi8EhdszZ56qYaUwt3wtOxQ_SAtSOWQRbAxHXZ1EiUvUGJid-M2IXDP83PeWrTaXL-dbiGzHCBnI/s1600/bunny+boots.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVjOzzIiJeEd1U26l5H5tb3LaCv9X8SK0PVtwH_-OH4YeOmEnuPDAlymrRcfV9TwLi8EhdszZ56qYaUwt3wtOxQ_SAtSOWQRbAxHXZ1EiUvUGJid-M2IXDP83PeWrTaXL-dbiGzHCBnI/s1600/bunny+boots.jpg" height="148" width="200" /></a>Sorel figured this out as well right around 1959.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed like within a few years that
everyone on the ice had a pair of the classic Kaufman brown leather upper /
dark tan rubber bottomed boots with the removable felt inner boot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LL Bean had the Maine Hunting Shoe since 1912
but for some reason never figured out the insulation component or just didn't
market it as well as Sorel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I of course
still had the felts and overshoes because no way was a kid with growing feet
going to get outfitted with those pricey high end boots.</div>
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Fast forward to the 21st century and all its amazing outdoor
technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter what you buy or
how much money is spent, sitting on your ass in any weather below about 20F is
going to result in cold feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ice
fishing, sitting in the deer blind, spectating at things like outdoor hockey or
a ski jumping tourney or downhill race will result in cold feet unless you walk
around a number of times over the course of the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be tough while awaiting the wily
buck or if the fish are biting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The deer
hunter who can tough it out in the stand is going to see deer, pushed by the
poor SOB's with cold feet that get down for a walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At our camp the KingOfIronwoodIsland fills
this role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A heart valve and its accompanying
cumidin prescription insures that even his LaCrosse Iceman boots ("good to
-40F"....yeah, right.) will result in him taking a walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all very vigilant right<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>around 9:30am, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those of us who have made it to the blind by
then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Icemen, Sorels, Regular Red Wing
Irish Setters, which now have Goretex and 600,800, 1200 grams of Thinsulate,
all claim to be comfortable down to ridiculous negative degree readings. I even
pulled out the wallet for a pair of Steger Mukluks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately none of them work if you are
sitting in cold weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What seems to work OK, better than
the options however, are my Red Wings, 800 grams of Thinsulate, with a thick
down or holofil over bootie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This thing
prevents any walking but it insulates the entire foot and buys time before the
inevitable winter walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The Polar Vortex, a phenomena that wore out it<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’’</span>s
welcome a month ago, is back and there is no way in hell your feet are going to
be warm for extended outdoor activity, unless you keep moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My advice would be keep snowshoeing, cross
country skiing, and leave the ice fishing (unless you are one of the upwardly mobile
fisherman with a heated shack) to those warm March days. The ice is getting
black and honeycombed and the fish are practically surrendering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of us will be attending Woodyfest this
weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rumors are the woodpile for the
bonfire is smaller this year, although smaller is relative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps that means that the volunteer fire
department won<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>t show up to extinguish a reported
garage fire, or maybe the main fuel for the fire, the hated Box Elder trees,
have been exterminated from Woody<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>s property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever the reason, standing by the fire
drinking beer will be interrupted by frequent strolls into the house to warm
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay warm!</div>
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DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-83194543150591806242013-12-13T08:21:00.000-06:002013-12-13T08:21:53.300-06:00Deer Camp 2013 - Ten Days in Hell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every year when I head for what I refer to as my week in the 19th
century at the deer camp, people marvel that we can survive without
electricity, plumbing, or central heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are just the minor items of depravation however, there are a
number of other things that we do without for this hellish week on the cusp of
winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_WVQnuEYXWbvt4OwMDOQ-trgY6IDhen-QEi7gq6cVwRYYnLAyb1luVpxQ9X7V66LItNfyBEWKPox7LgvlvK0s0BXH_PgZjTr78qELA_gQnRjnrlmLOSZtDLMFp6VoOfYS7x6hdrdWzHI/s1600/photo+2.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_WVQnuEYXWbvt4OwMDOQ-trgY6IDhen-QEi7gq6cVwRYYnLAyb1luVpxQ9X7V66LItNfyBEWKPox7LgvlvK0s0BXH_PgZjTr78qELA_gQnRjnrlmLOSZtDLMFp6VoOfYS7x6hdrdWzHI/s200/photo+2.JPG" width="200" /></a>At one point we did have a generator but the smell and the noise
just didn't seem worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we have
no hair dryers, Fry Daddys, or small appliances of any sort it's just not much
of an issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can still make toast
without a toaster and excellent waffles with the cast iron waffle maker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It operates on the 1924 Detroit Jewel propane
stove, and propane Humphrey lights provide indoor light as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plumbing consists of the hand pump outside
the camp and the outhouse. While the seat is very, very cold on a 10F morning,
careful timing can result in a prewarmed seat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A sauna takes care of the other aspect of no plumbing, a shower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally the vintage pot belly wood stove
takes care of the central heat issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
just throw another log in if its cools down and damp the stove down and open a
window if it's too hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, these basics
are not the problem, it's those other subtle reminders of civilization that we
really miss.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtgGAZBtnfd5MqT4aJY1up98a9PfauaFEfjG3OgnNPzRJZrcfja0dQ-JeOIs4i1RDmMyGSGjm9HR1IlgSizwjls5I8m5_UK6gLhzg7xNY86hN4TWNYqLA6rHv7qS7VazMJlgAgrMjYFw/s1600/photo+4.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtgGAZBtnfd5MqT4aJY1up98a9PfauaFEfjG3OgnNPzRJZrcfja0dQ-JeOIs4i1RDmMyGSGjm9HR1IlgSizwjls5I8m5_UK6gLhzg7xNY86hN4TWNYqLA6rHv7qS7VazMJlgAgrMjYFw/s320/photo+4.JPG" width="320" /></a>I personally find electronic background noise to be very
soothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A TV or radio on in the
background, beeps and alerts from electronic devices, the whirring of various
motors and drives firing up. Soothing for sure, but we are deprived of such
enjoyment due to that pesky electricity being gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do have a battery powered Montgomery Wards
Airline model radio, dual cassettes and all, that was a circa 1977 wedding gift
and we will have the oldies station on from time to time so I guess that
offsets the lack of electronic buzz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
one reliable source of electronic noise was eliminated when I stabbed Rudolph
during a psychotic episode, but that's already been discussed on these
pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have discovered that if one
climbs up into the Wounded Knee blind that two bars of Verizon service can be
achieved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has been used for
birthday calls to the VOR as well as emergency calls to Woody to bring another
buck tag in particularly good years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Having to work to make a call, hiking a half mile and climbing a tree
stand, puts a whole new light on prioritizing which calls are important and
which are not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAioc0mVIhkmqiNe48U939fjlcLjZGVgVNi8R1RnormAaKdYyfDeveJJT9XUbwNgXVltzZh0thA5aZAdVmWRfIXGdZkiGOBDQKERGy3PBKVAl4W1mREL-Z4zTvxjCBjXssO9XU0W2WVRw/s1600/photo+5+%282%29.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAioc0mVIhkmqiNe48U939fjlcLjZGVgVNi8R1RnormAaKdYyfDeveJJT9XUbwNgXVltzZh0thA5aZAdVmWRfIXGdZkiGOBDQKERGy3PBKVAl4W1mREL-Z4zTvxjCBjXssO9XU0W2WVRw/s200/photo+5+%282%29.JPG" width="200" /></a>Thanksgiving dinner is another depravation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you make a large turkey with gravy,
stuffing, cranberries, sweet potatoes, squash, and three desserts in such a
primitive and tiny space?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every year we
manage to battle adversity and get it handled with the Weber grill, the above
mentioned Detroit Jewel, and some creative juggling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year we managed to pull off dinner for
seven of us with a four course wine flight to accompany the above courses, in
the face of this adversity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fn_FslqS50nX4HXEOjFr9RCY-tVsR9fvk3c4it_u_Lk2j4CssM5O2WJ8r_gJPDOBbuxkZ_J4h9t2AQDysxWAM0CqB8yTC8GKipeyTSSwV15xyq4-zSPOh5VaW9ldYYXM2T0uxl_xHAg/s1600/photo+1.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fn_FslqS50nX4HXEOjFr9RCY-tVsR9fvk3c4it_u_Lk2j4CssM5O2WJ8r_gJPDOBbuxkZ_J4h9t2AQDysxWAM0CqB8yTC8GKipeyTSSwV15xyq4-zSPOh5VaW9ldYYXM2T0uxl_xHAg/s320/photo+1.JPG" width="320" /></a>The other thing that we go without for the week of deer camp is
angst and expectations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing
scheduled permanently is happy hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stroll in after hunting, eject shells, place gun in rack, and pour
beverage of choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is total
freedom on whether to go out and hunt or drink coffee, read a book, BS with the
crew, or hit the sack at 8pm or midnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is some whining about pumping water, filling the wood box, and
stoking the sauna stove, but minor bitching is part of camp as well as the
smart assed and predictable comebacks to said whining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After going without schedules and
expectations, coming back to the world, especially that first morning at work,
is unusually invigorating.</div>
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The other thing we go without is decorum. Casual visitors might
find that people walking around, drinking beer, and cooking in their underwear
is a bit disconcerting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is said that
I do my best cooking in my underwear and this is yet another cross that we bear
during deer camp.</div>
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The ultimate lack of expectations is sitting up in the
blind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thought uninterrupted by
background noise or other people is a powerful thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being deprived of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the distractions can steer your mind to all
sorts of interesting spots and time tends to slow to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it's slowest passage of the year, especially
when the temperature is in single digits and a northwest wind is coming off
Gitchee Gumee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh for the warm office,
with the comforting glow of the computer screen, emails and co-workers stimulating
your mind, and the prospect of a productive meeting looming in exactly 18
minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being deprived of that is
certainly one of the most disturbing things about those ten days at camp.</div>
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This year three 8 pt bucks were shot, one each by Pod,
GurneyGranny, and the KingOfIronwoodIsland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The very late spring had reduced the herd in our area and even though we
had doe permits aplenty, it was decided to pass on the smaller deer this fall. Every
year I hear morons bitching about the wolves but our DNR has effectively
reduced the population with their ill conceived, non science based hunting
seaon so I find it difficult to figure out how there were more deer and more
wolves last year and fewer of both this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe the fact that we had snow and tip ups out on a foot of ice on
opening fishing in May had something to do with deer mortality?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nah, sorry I blew up there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the latest that deer season can be in
Wisconsin and it was cold and especially windy for most of the week. My guess
is that part ot the 26% reduction in the deer kill in our area is not just the
late spring but the attractiveness of the bar stool blind in the rough weather.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor weather, fewer deer, and the
depravation described above made it a particularly hellish year at camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we would do it all over next week if we
could.</div>
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<i><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Sorry readers, I'm waaaay behind on posts due to ten days of deer hunting among other things. Here is one on hiking up on the Bayfield Peninsula. Annual deer hunting post to follow shortly......</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">To the
best of my recollection, this is the first hiking post that I've ever
written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's not that I never hike but
the whole concept of a hike is something I just don't spend that much time
thinking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's more like a walk in
the woods, usually with some other purpose in mind rather than just a
hike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hiked several miles yesterday,
but with a shotgun in my hand as we hunted pheasants and chukar in a lovely
little snow flurry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last weekend though,
two true 'hikes' were completed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-cMS4zOTBtqlOlVHKyDepTGwChFQb6xUhOSe1EBP8Pvg1svo9feEEM3PwNuqLK8mjclCKa3ADBpXC1SAs-3Kqe6qjppxDWb-Lkin5mGAg3hydDl8KUmA00o_vsAm07Tp2RciVSL1XDE/s1600/thirteen+%281%29.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-cMS4zOTBtqlOlVHKyDepTGwChFQb6xUhOSe1EBP8Pvg1svo9feEEM3PwNuqLK8mjclCKa3ADBpXC1SAs-3Kqe6qjppxDWb-Lkin5mGAg3hydDl8KUmA00o_vsAm07Tp2RciVSL1XDE/s200/thirteen+%281%29.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Both
sisters and spouses were in town and the one thing that we all knew how to do
was walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kayaking, skiing, or biking
would not have fit the skill set and motivations of this diverse group at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we hiked, Saturday along the mainland sea
caves and Sunday in the new Houghton Falls area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">We were led by Monk the puppy in all
cases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's the only male dog I've ever
had that doesn't immediately head for the hills when let off the leash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a lab/boxer, he is water shy, although he
eventually splashed across the creeks, perhaps from peer group pressure if
nothing else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a bit of a drab,
misty, sometimes rainy weekend in the low 40's F, but that was almost perfect
for hiking.</span></div>
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years up in the Bayfield Peninsula I had never hiked out to the mainland caves,
although the VOR had with some women friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a bit of a sloppy slog with all the wet red clay and one had to
be careful not to go on one's ass as the wet clay is 'slipperier than snot on a
doorknob' as the old saying goes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's
about two miles out to the lake view and the giant crack that we've all paddled
up into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's an interesting perspective
from above looking down rather than on the water gazing upwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The whole area appears to have suffered a
major windstorm with lots of downed popple and balsam as well as the occasional
large cedar tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wind must have
been accompanied by heavy rain as a couple bridges were washed out and laying
on the bank downstream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could have
continued on to the one mainland campsite but the rain was beginning and the
siren call of the Snug was a powerful lure back to Washburn.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSUOv7N1JVyG6nBEio3asXfj-p0I47NDyax5Ym8gG_uDO0izd72CWvfKP3zgi1Yj2IeJFi6-_NLxQu_-cARast_e7wIgvOhD-EOchJzbIRZpAp7p5EtmMEi7FsiFpRqF09ykm1FfitQw/s1600/photo+3.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSUOv7N1JVyG6nBEio3asXfj-p0I47NDyax5Ym8gG_uDO0izd72CWvfKP3zgi1Yj2IeJFi6-_NLxQu_-cARast_e7wIgvOhD-EOchJzbIRZpAp7p5EtmMEi7FsiFpRqF09ykm1FfitQw/s320/photo+3.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Sunday we
did the short hike along the Houghton Falls trail out to the overlook of
Chequamagon Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This gem just became a
public nature area a couple years back though the combined efforts of the
township, state, and environmental groups including the Bayfield Regional
Conservancy.</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its a short hike on an
excellent trail and both the geology and the trees are spectacular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hemlocks pretty much end here, the western
end of their zone, and there are some monsters interspersed with equally
majestic white<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and red pine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your reward when hitting the big lake is
worth the short stroll as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">While I
enjoyed the hike in this cusp season between kayaking, hunting, and skiing, I
must admit to looking at the nice inviting lake and thinking about a last Lake
Superior paddle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be 'hiking'
starting tomorrow, deer rifle in hand for nine straight days up at the deer
camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple ski areas have opened and
the rumor is that ABR in Ironwood has been tracking trails a bit already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hello winter, I hope you provide some outdoor
fun for us this season and don't wait until March like you did last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDxI7Z0EvWwUHTec9zSCylfn85qQusZ3eMT0OHNTQEDyiN5Mt2oYJEoLTj2js-gtZLnBS00HkIgknPLNCvIQrOtxmvX-_GroRYRkvGVMxSlrbV-K_-9pR8cs9lmfvihJRYJxfR3H67Ys/s1600/photo+2.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">After
being on life support since our annual fall trip, I finally had to euthanize my
old Garmin Etrex gps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Garmin, your
product is NOT waterproof no matter what you say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its water resistant and the resistance was
overcome somewhere between Outer Island and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Red Cliff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few waves breaking
over the deck, condensation inside the display, and everything went to
hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even a spa treatment in a nice
pail of quality rice did not revive the unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The new one will be in the clear bag, lesson learned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately I had a chart on my deck, the big
official NOAA chart, folded up and stuffed in a waterpro......er water
resistant map case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDxI7Z0EvWwUHTec9zSCylfn85qQusZ3eMT0OHNTQEDyiN5Mt2oYJEoLTj2js-gtZLnBS00HkIgknPLNCvIQrOtxmvX-_GroRYRkvGVMxSlrbV-K_-9pR8cs9lmfvihJRYJxfR3H67Ys/s1600/photo+2.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDxI7Z0EvWwUHTec9zSCylfn85qQusZ3eMT0OHNTQEDyiN5Mt2oYJEoLTj2js-gtZLnBS00HkIgknPLNCvIQrOtxmvX-_GroRYRkvGVMxSlrbV-K_-9pR8cs9lmfvihJRYJxfR3H67Ys/s200/photo+2.JPG" width="200" /></a> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The difference between the two is
that if the map got wet it might be soggy but would still be readable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reliable redundant systems are always good.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It was
recently announced that NOAA will quit printing navigation charts this
spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sure they can be downloaded
and printed on large format printers, most likely at a cost that will exceed
the twenty bucks they charge now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
have the time and inclination, a company like West Marine can print it
digitally at the normal twenty buck cost and get it to you via whatever shipping
method you choose to pay for, from overnight to regular USPS mail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The graphics and print quality will be better
and it's printed on water resistant paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shipping of course can equal chart cost for overnight service. On the
positive side, we can zero in on the very area we plan to paddle and probably
even print the thing on our own waterproof.....or resistant...paper at some place
like Kinkos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a few retail
places that don't raise my blood pressure when I enter them and the typical
marine supply store where I purchase charts is one of em.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only hope that this more complicated path
to chart procurement doesn't cause some people to just say to hell with it and
rely on the gps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would be the path
of least resistance, excellent if you're electricity but bad if you're a
kayaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVX0di_ID1LBbMWvZpLHYHgtML1Runq_bQOC9c_12G6sIlWI-bHcjKVuJrchvAtvQszH09e62Vj0vhh4C74HPcMjRZtNHqZNJllWj3mCxyZG342u-GSFMrm-EoZXeCGAfqjBnCjn5lZ3M/s1600/photo+1.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVX0di_ID1LBbMWvZpLHYHgtML1Runq_bQOC9c_12G6sIlWI-bHcjKVuJrchvAtvQszH09e62Vj0vhh4C74HPcMjRZtNHqZNJllWj3mCxyZG342u-GSFMrm-EoZXeCGAfqjBnCjn5lZ3M/s320/photo+1.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As a
history fan I love the paper charts simply for the tale they tell after
numerous trips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where and how they were
folded, scribbled notations made, and the big picture, an aspect that the tiny gps
screen is woefully lacking. Here on the Great Lakes the charts just don't
change that much for we kayakers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
really don't care where and how deep the ship channel into the Ashland coal
dock is unless we want to avoid it or fish the edge of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On most of the areas that I paddle frequently
I have backup paper charts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually
have the gps along but very little of the functions it performs can't be
performed with a chart, a navigation tool, and a watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gps might be more accurate but how
accurate do you really need to be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Plus
you always have the 'waypoints' available on the map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years back four of us did a foggy
crossing from the tip of Rocky Island in the Apostles out to the Devils Island
light, the northernmost point in the State of Wisconsin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had my battered chart and little nav tool
with the fish line to calculate a bearing on the map and two of the folks had
gps units.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately they did not
have the waypoint for the Devil's light punched in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other problem was they had not sprung for
the 'Blue Water chart package' or whatever the extra chip they stick you for is
called.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Devils Island did not appear on
their tiny screens even though we were pretty certain is was there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all it showed up on the chart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fog was so thick that we could not see
Devils Island until we were about a quarter mile out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boys were nervous but we hit it right on
the money after a blind three mile paddle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To her credit the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>VOR was
confident in my navigation ability......pretty much. The one place that the gps really shines over the chart is picking ones way out to a deer stand through the forest at dark o'clock. Getting <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7lOEwkPTw">out to da blind</a> is much simpler with an accurate waypoint, since it's typically far too dark to zero in on any landmarks.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The end
of the litho printed charts, printed by the FAA by the way, not NOAA will be a
sad day for many of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a printer as
well as the owner of some small pulpwood acreage, I must disclose a vested interest in the
printed chart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted my emails to have
"please print this frivolously, I got timber to sell" instead of the
usual admonition to please not print this email. Higher ups at my company thought this to be a message they did not want to send; go figure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonetheless we
need to keep the skill and the joy of navigation alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A number of us took John Carmody's course at
the Gales event and it was refreshing to see the interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Far more people in the Great Lakes region have taken John Browning's navigation course and perhaps even enjoyed a whiskey with him afterwards. </span>For the guy who sets out for Sand Island in
his rec boat and flip flops, not having a map or gps is likely the least of his
worries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether the map and compass or
the aggravating electronic beeps of the gps are your prime method of knowing
where you are, just make damn sure that you have the other one for backup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also remember the map and compass are
significantly more reliable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See
paragraph one above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Practice those
skills as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't know what either
son's phone number is because I just tell Siri, the iPhone wench, to call Erik
or Ian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do remember my grandparents
number from the 1950's however, 835-6041.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is because I had the hands on experience of sticking my little
finger in the rotary dial and actually dialing the numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep folding those charts, sticking them in
the Sealine chart bag, and calculating those times and bearings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only is it fun but someday it might save
your ass.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The
Annual 2013 Grouse Kill is in the books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of the usual suspects made an appearance and Friday night</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s session ended at approximately 4:45 a.m., a time that I
only know about through hearsay evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Four of us who were nicely vertical at the noon hour decided it would be
a good time to check out the proposed GTAC mine tailing and waste rock site
which is only a short drive from camp. We were armed, although grouse loads
would have been no match for the M4 carbines or H&K rifles carried by the
Bulletproof security gang. Thankfully, no other souls were spotted on the
hike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three grouse were flushed but none
were harmed, and it was a lovely fall day in the woods</span></div>
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The area
we explored was the spot where the giant waste rock mountain would be
located.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was partially cut over and markings
on the trees suggest that a select cut of large oak trees is in the works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are plenty of streams in the area, some
with names, some without, that feed the Tyler Forks River which meanders
through the Penokee Range and dumps spectacularly into the Bad River at Copper
Falls State Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The area we checked
out was near Bull Gus Creek, named after an eccentric logger who lived in the
area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, folks who knew Bull
Gus are still around and tell interesting, mostly true stories about the fellow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His namesake creek is a nice little brook
trout stream that originates in a large beaver pond in the highlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dam is active and impressive at approximately
fifteen feet high, and it releases water to the creek in a number of trickles--leaks
in the dam, as it were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This insures
that the creek stays cold even in summer as the snow melt and cool water from
the pond flow into the creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brookies
love cool water and trout fishermen love brookies. </span>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Like many
things regarding the mine, the State of Wisconsin seems to be bending over
backwards to make sure it gets done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
guy with the most supple spine, a guy who can almost touch his toes bending
backwards, is Sen. Tom Tiffany of the Minocqua area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those of us who own land in the Managed
Forest Land program receive a tax break in exchange for managing our
timber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We signed a contract stating
that if we decided to pull our land out of the program, we would pay the state
back the tax difference since we enrolled in the program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the land proposed to be mined by GTAC
is enrolled in this program allowing public access as one of the conditions of
the MFL program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having people snooping
around and taking pictures of erosion from core sampling and maybe even finding
asbestos- bearing rocks (!) is certainly not what GTAC wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So a bill was introduced by the above
mentioned supple-spined Senator to allow them to take their land out of MFL
with no penalty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, it's only
about a million bucks in lost tax revenue.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Another
good example of 'it's OK for you little people but not for us job creators' is
the whole wetlands thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to
create a pond, much less fill one in, an incredible amount of paperwork and
inspections are part of the process<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20131031T0814; mso-comment-reference: BR_1;"></a></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a class="msocomanchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5286641616677658414#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" name="_msoanchor_1"></a><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Contrary to GTAC President Bill Williams</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> assertion in the Ironwood Daily Globe that the DNR is
holding up the permitting process, it would appear instead that the dog ate
GTAC's homework in the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The DNR is
actually waiting for them to get their feces in a group, to use the polite
phrase, and submit the required documentation for stormwater run-off, location
of access roads</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">sans wetlands, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We as private citizens could literally not
dump a pickup load of dirt in an area that had three cattails growing but these
guys can destroy the entire watershed, including the area in the images, if this Republican-and-Tiffany-led-fast-track
program goes through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I always
thought Republicans were the party of local control and decentralized
government oversight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet our guy Sen.
Tiffany introduced a bill to turn over local control of air and water
monitoring, sampling, and blasting completely to the state DNR rather than
townships and counties that are being affected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Right now in my home town area of Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls they are
mining and hauling much of the sand deposited by the last glacier out to North
Dakota and Texas for fracking in the oil fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tiffany</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s fellow Republicans in those
areas, what I would call traditional Republicans, have cried foul and are in
favor of retaining local control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
seems to me to be a fairly transparent scheme to centralize the activity in the
DNR, appoint a pro developer as head of the DNR, and then cut funding so they
don't have the resources to do the proper.......oh wait, I guess they already
did that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Which
brings up the grunerite issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since you
can't just back out of the MFL program immediately, and the rifle-toting,
camouflaged guards from Bulletproof Security were found to be operating in
Wisconsin illegally, people can still wander the land, fishing, bird hunting,
and collecting things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like rocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I personally helped the FrugalFisherman
collect several rocks, ignoring complaints from my back, when we were hiking on
Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently some of these rocks
contain grunerite, an asbestos bearing rock. Noted geological experts like
Senator Tiffany and Ms. Kolesar, chair of the Iron Co. "We Will Do
Anything for a Mine" committee have observed that the grunerite was likely
planted by mine opponents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> From the evidence so far it would seem to be a massive planting effort. </span>Science seems
to be a four letter word in Wisconsin these days, even though it obviously has
seven letters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geologists and other
scientific experts seem to be ignored whether it about asbestos bearing rock,
air quality from massive frac sand operations, or the wisdom of a wolf hunting
season in the state.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The fact
is that the very last thing on the minds of these giant corporations is worker
safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's been that way since the
very start of the industrial revolution. I say that as the son and grandson of
two guys who both died way too young after working at the US Rubber / Uniroyal
tire plant for decades, both coincidentally from lung related ailments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't think those diseases are hereditary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It surely couldn't be the
rubber dust, chemicals, and working conditions, right? However, Uniroyal brought jobs,
jobs, jobs to the Chippewa Valley area, just like the frac sand operations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Large corporations will only do what they are
required to do, and they work diligently to eliminate pesky requirements that
impact jobs and especially profits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An excellent
way to do that is to take away local control from those affected by the
operations and put it in the hands of an underfunded state agency rather than
encouraging a scientifically based collaboration between local entities and the
DNR and even the Feds and the Tribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBLDg2ep-tQ6ANgQrXjlZ_w30GrCyYLuPFBF2LwkA_kaQZJF08TzhvycQhVHrWYL5Th0t6AcbZkNGrpR7AJIy7XbKd-Xv2XlP8jhrzr1LwFpJ1enj3LgATyx8U8G_FiBalQ_SpFKvJ_c/s1600/photo+4.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBLDg2ep-tQ6ANgQrXjlZ_w30GrCyYLuPFBF2LwkA_kaQZJF08TzhvycQhVHrWYL5Th0t6AcbZkNGrpR7AJIy7XbKd-Xv2XlP8jhrzr1LwFpJ1enj3LgATyx8U8G_FiBalQ_SpFKvJ_c/s200/photo+4.JPG" width="96" /></a><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">One of my
favorite beers is Keewenaw Brewing's Widow Maker, an excellent and very
quaffable black ale brewed up in Houghton, MI,.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The beer takes its name from a drill. "The Widowmaker, a pneumatic
drill that operated without benefit of water to lubricate the bit and cut the
dust, was introduced to copper country mining in the late 1890's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>While greatly improving productivity, the
drill became known as the "Widowmaker", killing many of the miners
that used it from illnesses related to prolonged dust inhalation". I have no information on when or what made the mine operators quit using the drill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Let</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s open our collective eyes and do some strategic
cost/benefit thinking on these issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need some facts--scientific facts--not ideological propaganda put
forth by the right or left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's the
only way we will collectively win in the long run.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A number
of years ago I was in a Friday night league on the company bowling team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through a scheduling quirk we had to bowl on
Good Friday and my two Madison cronies, Woody and Davey, were in town for the
long weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several pitchers of beer
were consumed by bowlers and spectators and we enjoyed a fish fry after
bowling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I switched to water and the
boys switched to bourbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before we left
the bar an off duty 2nd precinct cop warned us that there were DWI sweep
operations all over town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure enough, I
was pulled over within a mile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Davey began talking about who was possibly in any shape to drive once I was
invariably hauled off to jail, Woody, a lawyer by trade, spun around in the
seat, glared at him, and uttered the now classic phrase. "David, all you
need to do is shut the flock up!".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I passed the breathalyzer test, disappointing the officer who surely
noted that the inside of the car smelled like a distillery that had four kegs
of beer spilled on it's floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
phrase and it's abbreviation, STFU, has become a classic in certain circles.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ee6Yr1JE8zu43wtIFCSWeEJnRHIvRguLBPlUJ0SXGwdlCHZz0Cuh1iTUpJGYcGJh5og7s4J5-3hp1ESFWGJNQANhTPxGwcfJ0jahkq0LMX9AOiKi_WKWuo9-f3k4vbifLLLfhK8gQvE/s1600/photo.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJ-yxzXuWsVmljuhr6lQcdfO-IDnMZoxPZGGkZ_A7FZRLx18bHdhlj34yXULG3nfGgbFUe_pBvhEgnj9hgu_qNLEJMZxGrGXicZ7F6AYBcTZOSzpWjW0-krvFxa1yPkyMLuP7Oe81Z0w/s1600/baby+noise.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyoWcxq4VozIgysfjVUiRdq8aNkYtnTA23_HL4gNsi9iXx4-b3r9OGJa3-MXAjrlfYo5kOgZ6XZgJRRWpzBWQGTQpFZB0FpRuDMUwJcXUgkL976kGmlPORqstbqWMi01Tw72kGt92SWw/s1600/loud.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Other
than satisfying a pathological need to be outside, the other common thread of
activities that I enjoy is that they are quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means mechanical noise, electronic noise, and more and more the
free form stream of consciousness babbling of certain people is blessedly
absent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kayaking, cross country skiing,
deer hunting, cycling, and hiking all share the twin virtues of being outdoors
and fairly quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I grow older and
more curmudgeonly, my tolerance of unneeded aggravating noise decreases
geometrically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Public transportation is
the worst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have found however, that
once the polite, 'I'm trying to read', and 'I'm going to close my eyes for a
couple minutes here' don't work on the plane or train that playing the STFU
card is 100% effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyoWcxq4VozIgysfjVUiRdq8aNkYtnTA23_HL4gNsi9iXx4-b3r9OGJa3-MXAjrlfYo5kOgZ6XZgJRRWpzBWQGTQpFZB0FpRuDMUwJcXUgkL976kGmlPORqstbqWMi01Tw72kGt92SWw/s1600/loud.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyoWcxq4VozIgysfjVUiRdq8aNkYtnTA23_HL4gNsi9iXx4-b3r9OGJa3-MXAjrlfYo5kOgZ6XZgJRRWpzBWQGTQpFZB0FpRuDMUwJcXUgkL976kGmlPORqstbqWMi01Tw72kGt92SWw/s200/loud.jpg" width="200" /></a></span>My iPhone has
every possible alert turned off and the ring is just the classic rotary phone
ring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it's not on vibrate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your phone is set to alert you by beeping
every time it receives an email, text, or news item, you sir or madam, are an
obsessive asshole. In my opinion second hand noise is as aggravating as second
hand smoke or being stuck in a room with a wearer of really bad perfume or
cologne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Padding Minnesota's north shore
of Lake Superior is beautiful from the scenery standpoint but miserable from
the Hwy 61 noise standpoint. </span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJ-yxzXuWsVmljuhr6lQcdfO-IDnMZoxPZGGkZ_A7FZRLx18bHdhlj34yXULG3nfGgbFUe_pBvhEgnj9hgu_qNLEJMZxGrGXicZ7F6AYBcTZOSzpWjW0-krvFxa1yPkyMLuP7Oe81Z0w/s1600/baby+noise.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Special mention goes to the wannabe Hells Angels
on the Harleys who's motto, 'Loud pipes save lives' is as stupid as it is self
centered and narcissistic. </span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Special mention goes to the babblers, those people
who need to STFU but just can't seem to make it happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know several and go out of my way to limit
my time with them and then only in large groups where they have numerous babble
targets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my favorite babblers is
the one that shows up at kayak symposiums and instruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJ-yxzXuWsVmljuhr6lQcdfO-IDnMZoxPZGGkZ_A7FZRLx18bHdhlj34yXULG3nfGgbFUe_pBvhEgnj9hgu_qNLEJMZxGrGXicZ7F6AYBcTZOSzpWjW0-krvFxa1yPkyMLuP7Oe81Z0w/s1600/baby+noise.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJ-yxzXuWsVmljuhr6lQcdfO-IDnMZoxPZGGkZ_A7FZRLx18bHdhlj34yXULG3nfGgbFUe_pBvhEgnj9hgu_qNLEJMZxGrGXicZ7F6AYBcTZOSzpWjW0-krvFxa1yPkyMLuP7Oe81Z0w/s200/baby+noise.jpg" width="200" /></a></span> </span>The inevitable circle of introduction is
where they surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My 'I'm Dave from St
Anthony, been paddling for 17 years, need to work on my edging', is eclipsed by
some dork that goes into how they got into kayaking, the boats they have owned,
metaphysical basis for their kayaking, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I've never seen an instructor play the STFU card but have been tempted
my self many, many times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one good
thing when the group finally hits the water is that you know who to avoid and
where to sit, or actually not sit, for the lunch break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But
enough ranting, we've all been there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are the good sounds as well, the ones that take you to that calm
and relaxing place where you forget about all the other aggravating noises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound of the waves rebounding in the sea
caves is one of my favorites and I have recorded it many times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crunchy squeaky sound of the 0F snow as
we crunch across it in our ski boots and the sound the ski pole makes when it
plants in that same cold snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
myriad of sounds in the woods when sitting quietly in the deer stand, birds and
animals that are silent when you pass by and then forget you are there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there are the exciting sounds like the
reverb of a glass kayak slamming down on the next wave as you quarter
upwind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hissing sound of your skis
as you blow down a hill and carve a turn or two and the adrenaline grand daddy
of them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crunching sound heard
in a deer stand and the realization that it isn't a squirrel but a deer
approaching over your shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It's time
to quiet down people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Relax, look
around, listen to and enjoy your surroundings, and think of other people as you
move through your day with your mechanical and electronic assists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And please, I beg of you, try your best to
STFU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world will be a better place
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DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-1183422112493035152013-10-15T21:40:00.001-05:002013-10-15T21:40:33.293-05:00Three is a charm<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The third
annual Gales Storm Gathering finally geared up after a bluebird day on
Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friday was OK though, as we
pushed the edging envelope in preparation for some more active water and I had
the pleasure of attending a navigation class put on by John Carmody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John seemed a bit disappointed in the lack of
tides, unlike his native Maine, but as usual I learned a bunch in both the
morning and afternoon session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our crew
from Olstone passed on the Legendary Waters chow and attended the almost
mandatory Friday fish fry that Wisconsin is known for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In retrospect it was a good choice and we hit
the sack early in preparation for what Lake Superior had promised for the next
morning, small craft warnings and gale force gusts.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Since we
did not get near Legendary Waters the night before we had to rely on
MrEngineerGear to sign us up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We gave
him a strong C+ in communication and were able to fill in the gap when Mr.
Kochevar's administrative assistant, Mr. Castillo, texted us with precise launch info and
timing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were patiently awaiting
guidance at the Village Inn in Cornie; more on that later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We launched from Bark Slough, a spot
mentioned more than once in this space, and headed out the Bark River and into
the big lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a shoulder on the
east side, the Roman Point side, where nasty, bouncy, wavy fun has been had at
in the past and that is where we headed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Suddenly the fairly boring edging and 360 turns that Joe K had us
practicing on the flat water became anything but boring in the clapotis and
bumpy water off the shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of
those lightbulb moments; push the edging on flat water and more edge will occur
when you really need it on active water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Simple but when you see it and do it, like most instruction, it tends to
sink in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Head position, stuff happening
under the deck, and paddle movement suddenly click if you did your time on flat
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile RoundtheLakeRick, his
official new blog name after completing his ten year, two week at a time
circumnavigation of Gitchee Gumee, had felt a bit ill that morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I had nothing to do with it nor did the
food or adult beverages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was just a
bit off and decided to kick back that morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He quickly rallied and decided that he needed to get on the water and
launched and headed up Bark Point in the eastern lee toward the tip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reported that when he stuck his nose
around the point the 20-25 knot SW wind with fetch all the way from Duluth had
made the water way too much fun for a guy out solo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back on the other side of the bay we had
started to play with some rock gardening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gel coat was deposited and the BadHatter, a man who totally disdains the
plastic bottom of his Prijon, would have been proud of the abuse that many of
the roto molded hulls took as we squeezed through openings and limboed under cave
passages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather God's had indeed
given us a nice day of paddling.</span></div>
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days fun ended, eight of us including three instructors posing as students, our
Illinois contingent of RLRick and BearBoxSteve, MrEngineerGear,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and WrongWayKennedy (sorry buddy, you never
should have told me that BWCA story), and two paddling luminaries from Rutabaga
in Madtown, headed to the Village Inn and ordered a pitcher of South Shore Nut
Brown and began to dissect the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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rehydrating, what appeared to be a bachelorette party was staging, and before
we knew what was happening a party had erupted in the Village Inn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the bar buys you a pitcher you know
you're having fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some fresh Whitefish
sandwiches, a large pitcher of water, and we were off for Legendary Waters and
the presentations.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">When we
arrived at the casino I was cornered by one Mr. B. Castillo who asked me what I
thought of a Saxon Harbor to Little Girl Point paddle to conclude Sunday's
session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it was brilliant and
before we could say 'do they have Nut Brown here?' the majority of Gales
attendees had signed up for the adventure. The next morning we headed to sunny
Saxon Harbor, back road of course, and launched at the marina with brilliant
sunny skies and a lake with a bit of west wind chop and less than 2'
waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an uneventful paddle with
some mini surfing off the mouth of the Montreal River on the Wisconsin/Michigan
border and some fun at the waterfall below the power dam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some folks headed to Little Girl for a
shuttle back to Saxon Harbor and others turned around and paddled back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Handshakes, hugs, and another Gales was in
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third year in a row the fall winds cooperated somewhat with some 'Goldilocks'
conditions to play in on Saturday; not too big and not too small, just right
for many of the attendees. Coaching was superb, the 'herd of cats' syndrome was
in play at times, and the camaraderie of paddlers was at it's usual fine
level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The local connection definitely
helped shape the venue and find the active water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have to give kudos to the Village Inn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to an excellent tap selection
they have gone a step beyond with their solid and imaginative menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You also can't beat fish that was hauled out
of the lake hours earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legendary
Waters was a great spot to concentrate people, the meeting and motel rooms were
decent, and the launch area worked very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My fear when the fancy new casino went in was that kayaks would no
longer be welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead they left the
beach intact and even allow us to shower after a long Apostles trip as part of
the launch fee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEM74LQUin9oAIl3m_HhxGx0HPew0fD5Aqmgxr42McJx564OA6jA33Bw0HdQmK9Y6jK-qYICCEgwCh9ctmDuy26Dev3J9CzjQDtbLPPEESrh8_HICrifjQzYRtZxUt7CtjQOEtk3LT5Rc/s1600/photo+3.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEM74LQUin9oAIl3m_HhxGx0HPew0fD5Aqmgxr42McJx564OA6jA33Bw0HdQmK9Y6jK-qYICCEgwCh9ctmDuy26Dev3J9CzjQDtbLPPEESrh8_HICrifjQzYRtZxUt7CtjQOEtk3LT5Rc/s320/photo+3.JPG" width="320" /></a> </span>I did hear some
complaints about calorie intake but the prudent kayaker always throws in extra
chow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shutdown screwed many people
from distant states and countries out of seeing highlights of this beautiful
park, with the Oak Spit, mainland and Sand Island caves, and Balancing Rock off
Basswood being just a few of the spots that people missed out on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember who shut it down next fall folks,
and make em' pay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of us are looking
forward to a return to Marquette next year and if I remember half of what I
learned through the deer hunting and ski seasons, I will be happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks to all for sharing another great
weekend on the water. </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On Thursday I will be joining several of my fellow paddlers, heading up
to the Legendary Waters Casino for the start of the third annual Gales Storm
Gathering. Our casa in Washburn will be turned into a bunkhouse for a handful
of attendees and we sincerely hope that the weather Gods provide us with some sort
of wind and waves, if not actual gales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We also hope that said Gods did
not get their dates confused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last
weekend was supposed to be the balmy Indian summer weather for the big Apple
Festival in Bayfield, WI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My buddy from
Minocqua, SilenceOfTheLambChops, was scheduled to crash at our place after
manning his photo booth along the waterfront at the Apple Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point in the day the gusting
northeast wind shredded his tent and I got a FB message that he had said to
hell with it and headed for home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
tarp was blown off my wood pile, held down by split wood on the corners, which
prompted me to check the nearshore for the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Gale warning in effect through 10am
Sunday morning, winds from the northeast 25-30mph, gusting to 40mph, waves
10-14' subsiding to 6-8' early morning".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was even a queasy video on Youtube of 30 seconds worth of the
normally placid Madeline Island Ferry crossing with the comment, "we had
to turn into that one, it was a big one". That may have been too much gale
for kayaking but in the Apostles there is always a lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would have been fun to sneak out somewhere
but it was not in the cards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Besides the weather the other
wild card for the weekend is the government shutdown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say and think what you will, but the fact is
that the government had never been shut down before because a group of
legislators insisted that a law that had been passed by Congress, ratified by
an election, and signed by the President be repealed before they pass the
budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which of course is their main
job. I guess I learned in junior high civics that if you wanted to change a law, you helped elect legislators that would enact that change. So the AINL, the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore will be closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means no visitor center in Bayfield, no
launching at Meyers Beach, and supposedly we can't get within 440 yards, a
quarter mile, of any of the islands other than Madeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This should not be a problem unless attendees
have a burning desire to see the Fresnel lens in the visitor center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are actually only two official NPS
launch sites, Meyers Beach and Little Sand Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Apparently Meyers beach, which pretty much has a parking lot, pit toilet,
and no staffing on site, has a chain across the entrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This must be to make a point (or due to the ephemeral 'liability issues' thing that people always throw out when they don't have anything better) because no
staffing is needed there and other than the summer weekends there is no one
representing the NPS down there anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The other launch, Little Sand Bay, closes after Labor Day but they can't
padlock that one because the Town of Russell operates a campground and launch right
next door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every other launch site in
the area from Bark Bay to Cornie Beach to Red Cliff to Bayfield and the
Washburn coal dock are open for business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxz89wnt83A_Tyo8bAZTrkoKnrbjCYRUHNcbQQl-0HXfRvnnEdhdeTHgClTz_qcPopfdqi_Nv0Hp32Q08joeEGZAuO4ID2D7hL8iYhELw6JsLJV7O63qHHHtZzLGgiF1QmC_IlA8fUlo/s1600/photo.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxz89wnt83A_Tyo8bAZTrkoKnrbjCYRUHNcbQQl-0HXfRvnnEdhdeTHgClTz_qcPopfdqi_Nv0Hp32Q08joeEGZAuO4ID2D7hL8iYhELw6JsLJV7O63qHHHtZzLGgiF1QmC_IlA8fUlo/s320/photo.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I'm sure that a good time will be
had by all no matter what the weather and state of the dysfunctional US
Government is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We missed the Gales event
last year in Wawa and had our own gales event in Homer, AK where we were nearly
blown off the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be quiet in
the area with many establishments in Bayfield, Maggies and the Bayfield Inn being a couple of notable exceptions, shut down after Apple Fest
weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Washburn however will be open
and one of it's newest establishments, The Snug, will be the unofficial HQ of
the Washburn contingent to the Gales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Most definitely 'good craic' as the Irish say and the sign over the
urinal, "Don't piss off the fairies" is advice that should be taken
to heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patsy's Bar just down the
block serves a burger that was voted Best on the Lake by Lake Superior
Magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some great tap handles as well
including Summit EPA and Keewenaw Widow Maker. Wood fired pizza at DaLous
rounds out that excellent block in Washburn. As usual it will be fun seeing
friends from around the Great Lakes and beyond and the coaching once again will
be superb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As my friend from Cumbria in
northern England says, "No such thing as bad weather mate, only shitty
gear". Bring on the weekend!</span></div>
DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-79002871559146043442013-09-30T06:38:00.000-05:002013-09-30T06:41:31.127-05:00Chris Bandy - Strong kayak safety work in the Apostles<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The last post in this space was about safety and how preparedness, thinking ahead, and solid risk
assessment can make paddling a long, skinny boat on Gitchee Gumee a relatively
safe endeavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My paltry efforts
however, pale in comparison to a local Bayfield County guy who was honored
nationally a couple weeks back for his efforts to inform and educate kayakers
in the Apostle Islands on how to prepare and paddle safely in the National
Lakeshore.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6WV9W8-tmvRc4vNbNKCEMctqAdIwqjLqB102U5kjs4bIpFG3dH7vKhSkVP1giNo7BKbZu7LSbnMLUH5VxNPMSX84nnbXxH6aQ0nZSdExowrXRJPyQSkLwNcYJqGiXkPUxgkPXrjyOXk/s1600/photo+1.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6WV9W8-tmvRc4vNbNKCEMctqAdIwqjLqB102U5kjs4bIpFG3dH7vKhSkVP1giNo7BKbZu7LSbnMLUH5VxNPMSX84nnbXxH6aQ0nZSdExowrXRJPyQSkLwNcYJqGiXkPUxgkPXrjyOXk/s320/photo+1.JPG" width="275" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chris Bandy coordinates the Coast
Guard Auxiliary's "Paddle Smart" program in the AINL and has done so
since 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was named the 2012 Coast
Guard Auxiliairist of the year at the Coast Guards National Conference in San
Diego last month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This would be for the entire country boys and girls, which includes the Atlantic, Pacific, Bering Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guy presenting him
with the award is Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., Commandant of the United States
Coast Guard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The complete story can be
read <a href="http://live.cgaux.org/?p=3063">in this link</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have ever
talked to the friendly volunteers at Meyers Beach and Little Sand Bay and been
offered one of the orange kayak emergency contact decals before launching,
Chris is the guy that coordinated this effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He also helped execute a <a href="http://www.ashlandwi.com/county_journal/article_202c1112-17fd-11e3-a958-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=jqm">major kayak search and rescue exercise</a>
involving the Coast Guard, the Park Service, and at least a couple buddies of
mine as the 'victims', an exercise that came off really well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I don't know if he was personally on
the water, I spoke with two boats with Coast Guard Auxiliary personnel that
were also safety boating along with the kayaks at this years Point to LaPointe
Open Water Swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strong work for sure
and it made a difference; this year had the lowest number of Coast Guard
involved paddle sport search and rescues in the past four years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I tip my Tilley hat and salute
Chris Bandy and all the other volunteers who cheerfully endure the 'don't
worry, I know what I'm doing' responses from paddlers who obviously don't, given
their equipment and (lack of) safety gear, as they attempt to launch
into the worlds largest lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can
help by reinforcing the advice that these folks try to impart to rookie
paddlers and thanking them with a 'nice job' and 'well done' when we encounter
them at the launches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is pretty
obvious from the empirical data on SAR events that it's working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lets all help them keep it going!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Photos by Auxiliarist <span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;">Joseph Giannattasio</span> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Actually it wasn't even three
hours, it was more like 45 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
friend had just completed a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">beautiful new strip baidairka for
his wife and wanted a brief test paddle on Saturday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife would christen her new boat and we
would ride shotgun in my Explorer and his Squall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would never be more than 100 yards from
shore and could only paddle about 45 minutes since I had a 'pressing'
engagement at an apple press in Gurney later that morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, we weren't even on the big lake, just
Chequamagon Bay north of Washburn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
other chore of the day was to pick up the Lead Bananna, the vintage Howard
Jeffs Aleut II which had been living on his trailer since a Labor Day weekend
trip. I had taught on Snail Lake on Wednesday and half my stuff was in St
Anthony and I left the other half at Olstone as I blew out the door, already
suffering from Time Compression Syndrome, a chronic malady diagnosed by the
BessemerConvivialist, which is indicated by the attempt to sfuff ten pounds of
fun into a five pound bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bail bag,
pump, paddle float, and life jacket with all the handy gadgets were all
somewhere else as we launched into a building south wind and chop, heading
south to Houghton Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It was a really uneventful almost
boring paddle, if you can possibly consider beautiful brownstone rock
formations to be boring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we rounded
Houghton Point and got the full effect of the south wind with the waves
bouncing off the cliffs on the point it got a bit more interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My watch told me it was time to turn around
and 66.6% of us did so successfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While I was watching his wife make the turn in her new baidarka, my
buddy went over in the Squall when a beam sea caught him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I paddled over for a T rescue I noticed
that the boat seemed heavy as I dragged it on to my deck to empty it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he jumped up on the back deck it
actually sank below the water line and the cockpit filled up again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something was amiss and it was apparent that
the back hatch was filled with water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
would need to figure out how to dump it and I was not too excited about doing
it out in the chop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a dock
about 75 yards away along the shore so I clipped on with my short tow and my
friend swam alongside with his spouse keeping the gimlet eye on both of
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got to waist deep water we
pulled off the rear hatch and found that the neoprene hatch seal was
missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To add to the water load, he
had been working on a stuck footpeg, removed it, and then figured the hell with
it, let's get going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two footpeg
bolt holes had water trickling into the cockpit every time a wave passed under
the boat as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was obvious that
the water in the cockpit had made the kayak unstable which caused the capsize
in the beam seas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point a well
prepared paddler would pull out his bail bag which contained 6 mil poly and
bungie line for hatch repair as well as super duct tape to patch the two
holes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no well prepared
paddlers on this trip however, my bag was in the garage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after dumping the boat we cinched down the
back hatch straps as tight as possible and I found a couple sticks of the
correct diameter that I jammed into the foot peg holes and broke off and we
limped back to the launch area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn't
even have my life jacket with knife so I could cut my water bottle to make an
improvised bail bucket so we used a hat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alls well that ends well but it
was still a screwup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't check
friends boats before we hit the water and I probably won't start now but a
quick look around doesn't hurt; I may or may not have noticed the big chrome
foot peg screws missing. No way on the neoprene hatch however, I would not have
spotted that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had it been cold water or
no decent place to land it would have been different and more critical but the
water was warm and there was a place to land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the cold water scenario, given wind direction and proximity of the
land, I would have probably abandoned the boat, hauled my buddy to shore, then
gone back out for the kayak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either that
or raft up with two boats to empty the hatch. I guess those elements of risk
management, bluebird weather, a landing spot, and warm water, probably figured
into my usual preflight unconsciously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not throwing in the bail bag was stupid as was none of us having a pump
on deck. We improvised, dealt with it, and in the end it was a minor, no big
deal situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But consistency is a
crucial attribute in a number of activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Last weekend I paddled out to Oak with a group including a friend that
is not in tip top condition these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tow belt, energy bars, bail bag, paddle float, bilge pump, and gadget
laden life jacket were all consciously along for the ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we had an interesting crossing from Red
Cliff Point to the Oak Spit, all went well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it does 98% of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But the Houghton Point event was
a warning, Gitchee Gumee telling me that I need to have my shit together all
the time if I am within her sphere of influence, and it will be heeded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I crashed a motorcycle when I was 18 years
old and escaped no worse for wear, just like this incident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a different biker after that and I will
be a slightly more tuned in and consistent paddler after this situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the very wise words of my buddy Silbs,
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Last week I returned from two
very different kayak adventures in the Apostles on either side of the Labor Day
weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The post weekend trip was with
the usual suspects on the annual fall trip and the pre weekend event was with
five boys and two adults from the Washburn Scout troop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they were different, they were both fun
as well as instructive.</span></div>
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three adults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they all lived in
the Bayfield peninsula, none had been to the islands via a people powered
boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Maps and compasses were required
and explained and five crossings we did over the course of three days were
uneventful though slow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The group got
strung out on the second one from Sand to York, but with light winds and mild
chop it wasn't much of an issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
explain why we want to stick together however and we had a nice tight formation
for the last three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did have one
double, a really good fall back if there is a weaker or ill paddler, as well as
a great place to store extra 'comfort' gear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The boys cooked us breakfast and supper over the wood fire, which I
always enjoy, and had the camping part dialed in due to BWCA canoe trips and
backpacking adventures in the Porkies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The 11.5 miles from Sand Island to the Oak spit was a bit much for some
of the guys but we all survived just fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was determined that if the wind was over ten knots we would abort and
head back to Little Sand Bay but, contrary to the forecast 15-20 out of the NE,
we got light and variable, perfect for beginning paddlers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbL9r7niADwi4nFEDBKb8vy_X9t12sEcrdZR1onfrTEWjHtn6pL8Yju_y1GfaTkpJycxIHqrAaWAjl-Cb9W7ysxoQ6davXeTlTOZp6VmH4-SBcB6Em-kdxg9koIJCogDXAxY0zT-7JflQ/s1600/silicone.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbL9r7niADwi4nFEDBKb8vy_X9t12sEcrdZR1onfrTEWjHtn6pL8Yju_y1GfaTkpJycxIHqrAaWAjl-Cb9W7ysxoQ6davXeTlTOZp6VmH4-SBcB6Em-kdxg9koIJCogDXAxY0zT-7JflQ/s320/silicone.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We also had an estrogen component in the
group, sis-in-law<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
MayorOfTurtleRiver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has experience
in scouting up in the Bemidji area with her two boys and was a welcome
addition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus she got to hang around
Washburn with her eldest sis, the VoiceOfReason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blueberries were picked, music enjoyed at the
Big Top, and a bit more paddling was squeezed in, although much more Gitchee
Gumee paddling is needed in her opinion.</span></div>
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mode, RangerMark and the BadHatter decided to take the Aleut II on our fall
adventure, this year to Outer Island for two nights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again the spacious middle hatch allowed
for such things as a restaurant style butane burner for convenient gourmet
dining plus the extra space to make sure there would be enough adult beverages
if we were windbound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As usual when
paddling the Apostles there were pros and cons with the pros heavily
outweighing the cons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>When we arrived on
Ironwood Island, our first night, we found 'Bring back the picnic tables'
spelled out in sticks on one of the tent pads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We heartily agreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though
it is technically the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness Area, the campsites are far
from bare bones wilderness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all
have a large metal bear box, many paid for by a combination of the Friends
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a half dozen kayak clubs around the
area, tent pads and fire areas surrounded neatly by 8 x 8 timber borders, and a
iron fire ring with cooking grate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
all have camp chairs but, like everyone gravitating to the kitchen to talk,
it's just nice to have a place to lean your elbows while relaxing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZrzLfMS8wr2guIxx3mPT7R30tVy6jajrDwBXD_EtwOgMMI8aCOWvKrhXXeWWB6LdfxH_6vr5WRXuQOPirFHlSF9BP8ptGThYvwPHbH9X08kz6iwAaaqLECKN6bKLnMqr7OXKtAOiI6s/s1600/no+camp.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZrzLfMS8wr2guIxx3mPT7R30tVy6jajrDwBXD_EtwOgMMI8aCOWvKrhXXeWWB6LdfxH_6vr5WRXuQOPirFHlSF9BP8ptGThYvwPHbH9X08kz6iwAaaqLECKN6bKLnMqr7OXKtAOiI6s/s200/no+camp.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></span> </span>I'll bet those same kayak groups might ante
up for a few tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not sure what
happened to the ones that used to be there but the ones in the group sites are
really nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also moved the
campsite on Outer about 250 yards up the spit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Being a creature of habit, I bombed in and did a surf landing when I saw
the small sign that I thought was the campsite sign was actually the sign at
the right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZrzLfMS8wr2guIxx3mPT7R30tVy6jajrDwBXD_EtwOgMMI8aCOWvKrhXXeWWB6LdfxH_6vr5WRXuQOPirFHlSF9BP8ptGThYvwPHbH9X08kz6iwAaaqLECKN6bKLnMqr7OXKtAOiI6s/s1600/no+camp.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Oh well, back in the boat,
launch through surf and another surf landing 250yards up the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcuHBbfLOitNLERL5VHPOOvUDTRxsrmoIGtxkbZLXInlDhbDGUnNjUVYjre4b_bO8LNSGRgQV23eI3lvThd97H7vhYsVE3KqfqwqZLwdjIE-FOXQ9q8FpIpApYK1f8k8DufuR8CHNVXY/s1600/photo+4.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcuHBbfLOitNLERL5VHPOOvUDTRxsrmoIGtxkbZLXInlDhbDGUnNjUVYjre4b_bO8LNSGRgQV23eI3lvThd97H7vhYsVE3KqfqwqZLwdjIE-FOXQ9q8FpIpApYK1f8k8DufuR8CHNVXY/s200/photo+4.JPG" width="200" /></a>We then encountered the ‘tents within a first
down of this sign’ sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One smart ass
decided that touching the sign would be a good thing, but I’m not sure the sign
was needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were maybe 3 or 4
places to pitch a tent and that was it.</span></div>
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trips was outstanding however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
watched the red light on Devils flash from the Little Sand Bay dock, and
watched a thunderstorm complete with multiple lightning strikes savage the Bayfield
peninsula as we sat there high and dry, protected by the Gitchee Gumee force
field or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Oak group site,
far and away the best group site in the islands has a perfect view, big dry
area for tents, and the high ground breeze that keeps the bugs at a manageable
level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason the NPS is
talking about closing this site, a spot where there has been human habitation
for quite some time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t get it but
it’s on the table for some reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Ironwood campsite is fabulous, an observation I made when we camped there last
August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVM1RlArNFVfBNSN29hMnj4DQznfs8dA0v2WKOZ_u3_pmv84oP3VBn2vuFDeIaw4xrvV9HW1XA0MuuPqHSPNNSk3J4Rrq1eH1xBkLjz4A2Qldt2FXVMlZgHAxrTcu8NtB9WQsJCl4vZc/s1600/Basswood.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVM1RlArNFVfBNSN29hMnj4DQznfs8dA0v2WKOZ_u3_pmv84oP3VBn2vuFDeIaw4xrvV9HW1XA0MuuPqHSPNNSk3J4Rrq1eH1xBkLjz4A2Qldt2FXVMlZgHAxrTcu8NtB9WQsJCl4vZc/s320/Basswood.JPG" width="320" /></a> </span>Nice tent pads, exposure to a
nice breeze, and a bombproof landing area against anything but a southerly
wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The Milky Way was just cookin’ on
a moonless night and we saw so many satellites we began to think there was some
sort of NSA facility hidden away on Ironwood. We visited the new Cat Island
site which is no longer on the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is nicely thought out with a water view but it looks like it might harbor a
mosquito or two during the buggy season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has a cool composting privy and it will be interesting to see how
that works. We even got some big water to paddle in as we began our 22 mile
trip from Outer to Red Cliff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was all
of 3-5’ which oddly enough is what NOAA forecast on the nearshore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The north shore of Stockton offered a nice
lee for a dozen or so miles and by then the wind had decided to taper off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDrDm0i28ADRUKxFV84xPgtVzBBDCgwwJjaFmuOu1W7mFAUkR9gF4pscW4bpiXqaPcJD5DoqkIG42zs_diCrj3tGf0cR9i7GZcRdV3C3hwnEk2lGHxWznOtJS3jOx5ZVMScV_ZiRqI3k/s1600/photo+3.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDrDm0i28ADRUKxFV84xPgtVzBBDCgwwJjaFmuOu1W7mFAUkR9gF4pscW4bpiXqaPcJD5DoqkIG42zs_diCrj3tGf0cR9i7GZcRdV3C3hwnEk2lGHxWznOtJS3jOx5ZVMScV_ZiRqI3k/s320/photo+3.JPG" width="320" /></a> </span>I also have to hand it to the Red Cliff
Band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feared no more kayak launching
when the big fancy casino came in but you can launch and park for a fee and
when you get done paddling a nice shower awaits you along with a beer in their
lounge overlooking the harbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be advised
that the beer should be purchased while breathing very shallowly and taken out
to the patio because every guy who used to love sitting in a bar smoking before
the ban is at Red Cliff, exercising that right.</span></div>
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DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-57828691213635149952013-09-03T08:02:00.002-05:002013-09-03T08:02:52.285-05:00Lost Roll Found<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>I've got a dirty little secret I
need to get off my chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, it's not
the confession that my tent has only been on an island for one night this year,
or the fact that I actually spent an entire day on Superior with a Euro
paddle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's my forward finishing
rolls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My chest scull and forward sweep
seemed</span>to have disappeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of
people out there like to point fingers and I will keep the tradition alive by
fingering RonO and GalwayGuy as two of the main causes of the missing
rolls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With GG out in Minot, ND on a
Mission from God and RonO happily wrenching on bear watching aircraft in Homer,
AK, my group of rolling compadres has dwindled to zero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, there are folks who want to roll for a
bit but they actually want to paddle and, worse than that, actually spend the
better part of the evening paddling!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With Ron and GG, a good night was launching, paddling 35 yards from
shore, and rolling off and on for an hour or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would then adjourn to the closest
establishment to discuss and dissect said rolls over esoteric pints of fine
ale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not discussed my problem
with either of them and kind of suspect that they may be suffering from the
same problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't recall any decent
body of water near Minot and I most certainly recall from last years trip, that
the water in the Homer area is a bit brisk for extended rolling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the 'normal' avenues of critique and
roll refinement hundred and thousands of miles away, It was apparent that Plan
B and C needed to be put into place.<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Plan B was pretty simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I was coaching up at the Great Lakes
Symposium I would just stroll down to the rolling beach during some spare time
and let the guy that showed me the secrets of the chest scull in the first
place, FivePieceRoy, diagnose the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only things wrong with that plan were, a) due to the grueling,
indentured servant-like scheduling of the cruel Bill Thompson and maniacal
Kelly Blades, I didn't have any spare time and b) neither did
FivePieceRoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had groupies lined up
every minute that he was in the water down at the rolling beach. So rather than
refining and diagnosing my roll I was forced to consume pints of Cabin Fever
Bitter at the Dunes Saloon and taste fine Irish and Scotch whiskeys from the
back of JB's van. I will admit though, that all angst about rolling was pushed
into the mental closet by these convivial activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew the vacation week in the Grand Island
area wouldn't offer any rolling tips either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The BadHatter is concerned with having one good roll and one only so he
can come up without wet exiting if he should find himself upside down
unexpectedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He feels that anything
other than a standard sweep is for trained seals and why bother worrying about
some contorted forward sweep BS when you have a solid standard roll?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It would appear that Plan C would
need to be executed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plan C was by far
the most solid of my schemes and one that was damn near foolproof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had signed up for ChrisG at Boreal Shores'
annual Lake Superior fun with Turner and Cheri from KayakWays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew in the back of my mind that this was
my ace in the hole, up the sleeve, on the bottom of the deck or whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We spent the morning working on various
Greenland stroke techniques and remembering things that were in the back of my
head but needed to be dragged to the forefront again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turner's comment that, "I come out here
to the midwest and you guys all have this low angle stroke; what's that all
about anyway?" struck home once again. He also handed me a new Razor
paddle that he'd made for me and actually finished on the way to Bayfield in
Parry Sound, ON.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm certain that Turner
really wanted to visit the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame museum but diligently
finished my stick instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks man!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now for the reconstruction of my
chest scull and forward finishing rolls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'd like to say that observation, refinement, and hard practice for a
couple hours got me back in the groove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Actually, it took Cheri Perry about 12 seconds of watching one lame
assed roll to inform me, "Olson, you're not dropping your head, you aren't
staying flat on the water, and you're lifting your shoulder before you slide up
on the front deck".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought to
myself, 'I can't be that screwed up, am I?', but of course I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keeping those three elements in mind, I hit
the first roll painfully and then things smoothed out and got back to normal
after a few reps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am officially back
in my forward finishing groove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good
roll is like hitting a baseball or a good golf swing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad contact sends vibrations up your arms and
the ball kind of dribbles off your bat or club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Contact in the sweet spot makes you feel like you never even hit the
ball as you watch it soar off into the distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good rolling technique is the same way,
practically zero effort or strain and you're up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we Neanderthal males encounter
difficulty we automatically revert to upper body strength and muscling our way
through the problem, an exceedingly stupid way to deal with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I guess there are a couple of
lessons to be gleaned from this tale of rolling woe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first is that instructors need to
continue their own instruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Constant
learning and refinement is a good idea no matter when endeavor you are involved
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second is to not wait so long
before dealing with a problem, kind of like our propensity to wait too long
before visiting the doctor. I know, I know, it's a guy thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lastly, good solid instruction is always
worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe next year I'll drag the BadHatter up to
Bayfield for this event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cheri actually
got him rolling for the first time at the last Traditional Gathering held in
Akeley, MN many years back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also need
to take advantage of the rolling resources here in town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christopher Crowhurst has a session or two or
twelve and had been kind enough to invite me more than once, but my mental
state by the time I get down to Spring Lake on the faaar side of town, usually
during rush hour, is so foul and toxic that it takes me 45 minutes to get my
head back on straight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thoughts of
harpooning the 24 year old bleached blonde woman, talking on her cell phone as
she tailgates me down I-35W in her fluorescent Ford Focus, take a while to
leave my brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thoughts of living full
time in a county that still does not have one single stop light on the other
hand, rarely leave my brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
stoplights since Wednesday evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Three day trip with the Boy Scouts was completed, assisted by the
MayorOfTurtleRiver then a 5 day Outer Island adventure with the usual suspects
for the annual Fall trip. In between Labor Day fun with the VOR, Matt, and
TheMayor, including some music at the Big Top Chautauqua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may even practice a forward finishing roll
or two along the way. </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A week ago Saturday a bunch of us
provided safety boat coverage for the Point to LaPointe Open W<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a</b>ter Swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed like a reunion of blog characters
with the VOR, Gurney Granny, CleanDeckKate, GreenThumbChef, Podman,
KingOfIronwoodIsland, Professor LIchen, ManFromSnowyLegs, and RangerMark all
crawling out of bed at dark o'clock to make the safety meeting at 7am under the
big Willow tree on Trek & Trail beach in Bayfield. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were plenty of local folks in kayaks as
well and over 400 swimmers registered with 38 safety boaters in the mix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather was beautiful, cool and dry, and
the lake started out placid with no wind at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would change a bit by mid race as we
shall see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The start is always impressive
and the sound of 400 people splashing through the water at once is some audio
that can only be heard at a unique event such as this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swimmers are all wearing bright neon swim
caps which really helps the safety folks keep track of everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end our mission is just that, to keep
track of everyone and make sure that tired, cold, or cramped up swimmers are
taken care of by the power boat crews and their medical staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kayakers are given zones that correspond the
five large orange buoys that mark the course and we are supposed to unfold like
an accordion as the lead swimmers cover the two miles to LaPointe on Madeline
Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the back end, the folks in
charge of the sweep are making sure the last swimmer is covered and that the
cordon of safety boats slowly closes up and heads for Madeline Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lead swimmers cover the distance in
roughly 45 minutes. The course is shut down at 10pm, two and a half hours after
the start. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forty five minutes into the
swim, when the leaders were stepping out of the water was also about the time
the wind and current kicked up with interesting yet predictable results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those big orange buoys are
tethered to the bottom, a bottom that is over 100' down in a couple of
instances, by a cable and anchor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
provide a rough guide for swimmers as they cross the channel. When the wind and
current pick up they will drift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
primary function of the kayaks is safety; the majority of time however is spent
making sure the swimmers are headed for Madeline Island and not Basswood Island
or Ashland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The north to south current
this year made for many Ashland bound swimmers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm a lousy swimmer but a guy who
can get stay afloat and get from point A to B most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did complete the Mile Swim BSA in Boy
Scouts but that was during Lyndon Johnson's administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike we Scouts following a rowboat for a
mile, alternating between crawl, backstroke, and side stroke, these swimmers
were focused on one stroke and kept swimming relentlessly. Once the current
started the relentless swimming continued, just not always in the direction of
the finish line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a number of
techniques for getting folks back on course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of the competitors have goggles and many also have earplugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yelling does not work worth a damn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pounding on the side of the kayak can work
but the best way to get a person's attention is to poke them with a paddle, a
technique that race director Scott Armstrong refers to as being kayaked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All are startled, some are pissed. We then
explain that if they continue in their present mode they will circle back to
Bayfield; we point toward the finish line, a goal that we paddlers with our
eyes 30" above the water can see clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>About a quarter mile from the finish line, a line<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>marked with balloons, banners, and cheering
spectators, I poked a guy and pointed to the finish line and asked him if he
could see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I can't see
anything, my goggles are fogged up".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hmmmmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe take em off?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked another guy how he made sure he was
going in a straight line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I just
key on the splashes of the guy in front of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The theory of lemmings blithely jumping off a cliff had been debunked
but the idea of distance swimmers following each other, perhaps in a circle is
apparently alive and well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found that
if I aimed 17' of brightly colored fiberglass at the finish line like an arrow
that worked the best for the swimmers to key on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would then paddle alongside for awhile and
that seemed to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I moved on to
the next group of swimmers though, all bets were off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've had fun with this little
story and have had fun with the race for the last several years as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no way in hell I could swim two
miles, and I applaud everyones effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
my buddy Eric Iverson pointed out, the guy that finished dead last still beat
everyone that didn’t swim, including Eric and I. For the most part the swimmers
navigate the crossing without much<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>trouble and although the main pack tends to expand and contract in all
directions things go pretty smoothly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The main goal is to be alert for tired or cold swimmers, a mission that
RangerMark fulfilled when he helped two swimmers out of the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is always room for improvement though,
and at 7:20am both swimmers and safety boaters can be a bit groggy and
sometimes information can go in one ear and out the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LIke most endeavors that are worthwhile,
constant improvement is the goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
some kayaking contacts out in the Bay Area that have safety boated the Alcatraz
swim as well as other ocean events and I hope to get some tips from them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we don't have a 3 knot ebb tide like
they have in the bay, there are certain constants to the safety boating mission.
If any readers have any good suggestions or insights, please comment or email
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the swim grows larger, and it has
grown geometrically over the years, more experienced and organized safety boat
volunteers are a necessity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Coast
Guard has a sizable presence as do the volunteers in the Coast Guard Auxiliary
and medical volunteers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good
coordination and communication between all parties can make this an even more
fun and keep this very popular event safe and efficient as it grows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's a great day on the water for everyone
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I am way behind CNN, the AP,
Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, and the Daily Mail on this but I
thought the Wisconsin DNR's raid on the Society of St Francis no kill animal
shelter to corral and euthanize Giggles the fawn was worth a post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383672/They-killed-Bambi-15-armed-agents-storm-animal-shelter-euthanize-baby-deer-called-Giggles-local-law-forbids-keeping-wildlife.html">Daily Mail</a>, I'm not approaching
this on the 'Bambi tack', the anthropomorphic, isn't it cute, 'deer are people
too' style of moral outrage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nope, what
this incident illustrates is an insane over reaction and over the top use of
the powers of the state to resolve a piddling incident that would have gone
away on it's own the very next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
all the budget cuts and understaffing, including cutting 32 more DNR jobs just
three months ago, an operation such as this just points out the lack of intelligent
prioritization in an increasing politicized state agency.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC8QeR7NkZqGSzdEooXXU1Qp4-azQ_BA93vdbXqsgfknYGGCUv0vtWVwxT9N-HbRs-QRcK-ZTdGMm0uedtKKP0pCW8xhFdxUo_Opq1CztbT-8k6J3GnW4XWa6DEt5DTXEm3WYLpoU-HVU/s1600/Ian+SAW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC8QeR7NkZqGSzdEooXXU1Qp4-azQ_BA93vdbXqsgfknYGGCUv0vtWVwxT9N-HbRs-QRcK-ZTdGMm0uedtKKP0pCW8xhFdxUo_Opq1CztbT-8k6J3GnW4XWa6DEt5DTXEm3WYLpoU-HVU/s320/Ian+SAW.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The short story on this incident
is that after receiving an anonymous tip that the St Francis animal shelter in
the Kenosha area had an illegal wild animal at it's facility, a combination of
aerial and ground surveillance determined that there was indeed a whitetail
deer fawn at the facility, a clear violation of state law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This evidence was presented to a judge who
issued a search warrant and this is when the fun began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A heavily armed contingent of 13 officers,
nine DNR and four deputies, raided the facility and detained the staff for a
couple hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Drawers were rifled, cell
phones confiscated, and of course Giggles was located, tranquilized, tossed in
a body bag that one of the officers then tossed over his shoulder, to be offed
at a remote location. You can read the <a href="http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_23786901/wisconsin-dnr-defends-removing-fawn-from-shelter-killing">AP story</a> or the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/baby-deer-killed-raid_n_3691317.html">Huffington Post</a> for more details. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUWqn2AxWDWmHj4QepxIdO9Vpb1DgWyN93qf2NsTy4szKWG3s2Zc1hK0XVg70yMjSLk8hZnLzhkDCZQdJw3RhJ86COdiQeSoNbbaF8nuyo9J4ZSXsVCoKDgBtsTaqlXBYFelAbfX7IQbk/s1600/OIF+354.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUWqn2AxWDWmHj4QepxIdO9Vpb1DgWyN93qf2NsTy4szKWG3s2Zc1hK0XVg70yMjSLk8hZnLzhkDCZQdJw3RhJ86COdiQeSoNbbaF8nuyo9J4ZSXsVCoKDgBtsTaqlXBYFelAbfX7IQbk/s320/OIF+354.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Several things leap out to a
person who is able to devote 60-90 seconds of thought to the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not call the shelter and see what they
have to say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why use aerial assets when
a warden slinking along the fence actually saw the fawn, plenty of probably
cause for a search warrant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why bother
with a search warrant in the first place when a DNR agent could just stroll up
to the office and say, "Hey, we have a report that you have a whitetail
fawn here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that true? </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do you know its
a violation of Wisconsin law?" Another tactic would have been to wait 24
hours and the problem would have gone away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fawn was scheduled to be shipped to an animal rehab shelter in
Illinois the very next day, a state where possession of a wild animal is not
illegal. And finally, why show up with thirteen armed agents?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's an animal shelter for God's sake, not a
Taliban stronghold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are in the
process of adopting a new pup from the rescue shelter and none of the employees
look like ex members of the Crips of Bloods and none appeared to be
carrying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They actually seemed to be
mild mannered, caring people that were interested in animal welfare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Once this whole international
shitstorm erupted, the really smart thing for the DNR to have done would have
been to put out a statement saying that they had screwed up, screwed up badly,
apologize, and state that they were looking at methods and policies to prevent
a reoccurrence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead they put out two
press releases on their Facebook page that attempt to justify the raid in one
of the lamest fashions imaginable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shortly after the second one was issued the FB page was taken down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has since been restored.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-hyH34k5kGx-BFx5UtkLEYEvy7yqdWqaFwCRDu6_tZ6q9ZBk3v0rdlpwilVm81EdSdH5HbnR_PVUaPivwC_UCT8XnIp73pA1CzkLbZHNVNuZyJz5ymgJMjbEjhlaxmiKM65Q4GOpEqm0/s1600/frac+sand.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-hyH34k5kGx-BFx5UtkLEYEvy7yqdWqaFwCRDu6_tZ6q9ZBk3v0rdlpwilVm81EdSdH5HbnR_PVUaPivwC_UCT8XnIp73pA1CzkLbZHNVNuZyJz5ymgJMjbEjhlaxmiKM65Q4GOpEqm0/s1600/frac+sand.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Department of Natural
Resources in Wisconsin has had an image problem for years, some of it deserved
and much of it not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just received my
Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine which had great articles on restoring
rivers and harbors, bringing back the sturgeon, and stories on a couple of our
outstanding state parks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have plenty
of cops, how about focusing the agency on the real threats to our state?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend from England, a police officer, was taken aback when I pointed out that we could be pulled over by a State
Trooper, county sheriff, city cop, park police, or even the tribal police. It
befuddled him how they could keep the jurisdictions straight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am personally a hell of a lot more
concerned about them hauling all the sand in Chippewa County out to the Bakken
Field, GTAC leveling the Penokees, or even more closely monitoring the crap
that fouled the rivers and harbors described in the WNR mag article than I am
whether some animal shelter is a transit stop for a fawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would much rather have wardens monitoring
those areas, documenting violations that actually impact the public good, than
this stupid waste of resources, including court time, in Kenosha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Heck, they even wasted <a href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/218410041.html">Gov. Walker and all of his cabinet secretary's</a> time when he needs to stay focused on his nationally renowned job creation efforts. </span>We had a conversation last week as we patched
up the BadHatter, who was attacked by a rogue kayak rudder on Miner's Beach. A
retired DNR professional in the group commented that he had a lot more training
on how to shoot people over the years than he did on patching them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They hit the range far more frequently than
the CPR/First Aid classes, even though he had rendered first aid to a
significantly larger number of people than he had shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I worked in the DA's office in Eau
Claire about 40 years ago, the wardens were always the most interesting guys
that came by the office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I
knew a few renegade game law violators that looked askance at the wardens, the
general perception was that they were there to help out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even my buddy, SilenceOfTheLambChop up in Minocqua, is questioning his volunteer work for the loon project since it serves the same knuckleheads that bring you wolf hunting, bear hunting with dogs, and other shaky activities. We need to get back to that image of the DNR
warden and put an end to the stupidity and incredible waste of resources that
occurred in mid July down in Kenosha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Stop worrying about form and get dialed in on functional policies. </span>The Giggles incident did not border on the ridiculous, it was well beyond the border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Disclaimer: That is not Giggles
at the top of the post, it's a fawn that stopped and dropped on Lake O'Brien Rd
one evening as I was heading to camp. It
was motionless, accepted fawn procedure when encountering potential threats,
and I spotted mom about 30 yards in the woods watching anxiously. My guess is
that whoever picked up the 'abandoned' fawn had a freaked out mom watching
somewhere. Leave nature alone
people! If the fawn was abandoned it
would likely make a nutritious meal for a bear, coyote, or some other
predator. That's how nature works and
its worked pretty well over the millennia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Also the heavily armed gentleman
in the images is not a member of the DNR or the Kenosha Sheriffs Dept.
either. It's No2 son on his all expenses
paid government sponsored trip to iraq in 2004.
Just wanted to clear that up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The frac sand image was heisted off the web and shot by Jim Tittle for Midwest Energy News </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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has to be the longest stretch that this site has gone without a new post since 2007
when I started writing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A combination
of other work related writing and an almost unprecedented thirteen days away
from the desk had made me lazy and a bit preoccupied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I find that being outdoors constantly dampens the urge to write while
sitting in front of a computer screen doing mundane, non writing related tasks
seems to fuel the urge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My time off
was book ended by coaching at the Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium on the front
end and being coached by Turner Wilson and Cheri Perry on the back end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both experiences provided excellent learning
opportunities and being on both sides of the kayak learning model helps with
both instructing and being instructed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guiding aspect of sea kayaking is one that
I attempt to avoid but one that is expected of us on day one of the GLSKS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year I drew the Spray Falls Adventure,
along with FivePieceRoy, MrEngineerGear, Marius, and Ray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The five of us had roughly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fifteen paddlers and the tour was indeed an
adventure.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVV6FJHA1S9rnDIH3ChCInJOtAu9JVQkvSFv82p2Bq1dvO4UjHafEf9BFP5ggAPVao9IUocIGRA6o6eMaCAUXNfKZ7oolcywwEtTRRgor8udTNxfQeGGUy2islStkT8wmiALDypnItXRI/s1600/rain.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVV6FJHA1S9rnDIH3ChCInJOtAu9JVQkvSFv82p2Bq1dvO4UjHafEf9BFP5ggAPVao9IUocIGRA6o6eMaCAUXNfKZ7oolcywwEtTRRgor8udTNxfQeGGUy2islStkT8wmiALDypnItXRI/s320/rain.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The paddle</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
began off loading boats at one of the finest mosquito preserves on the UP, the
Beaver Bay campground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This years late,
wet summer has made mosquito breeding conditions absolutely perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The silver lining was that it sped up the
launch considerably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The route for the
tour is certainly an adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
begins with a short paddle from a small bay through a channel and into Beaver
Lake is. A creek leaves Beaver Lake and flows a twisty, snaky 800 meters to
Lake Superior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end is a log jam
that requires a roughly 80 meter (16 rods for you BWCA fans) portage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a bit of a character check and
watching some folks help with four or five boats vs. others helping with zero
boats gave a pretty good indication of what to expect on the big lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a rainy day, a deluge at times, and we could hear far off
thunder but had not seen any lightning flashes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Radar on the iPhone seemed to indicate the storm was over Grand Island and
moving off to the northeast, good news for us, bad news for the two Grand
Island tours, one of which waited three hours to launch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our group paddled about a mile southwest along the
shore and stopped at the end of twelve mile beach, the last landing spot before
the cliffs, to evaluate the weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rain but no more rumbling helped us decide to paddle the two miles to the
falls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were nooks and crannies to
play in and gulls and mergansers to entertain us, which tended to string out
the group, a situation that was not a problem on water as flat as a pancake and with five coaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we saw the falls.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8m55zbSWzJvkC-q8mBsAJ-ndG8lfDhIc3Wjbi-Obv5EkUA8tYXuP6f4vumCnQbfndWBohr665E2dhoR3BLjY7fdE227b9_Hy4ON_2KqAQxDAL4Ll_CGZoL9_hmLOdv0v6P46Q029fh0/s1600/photo+5.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8m55zbSWzJvkC-q8mBsAJ-ndG8lfDhIc3Wjbi-Obv5EkUA8tYXuP6f4vumCnQbfndWBohr665E2dhoR3BLjY7fdE227b9_Hy4ON_2KqAQxDAL4Ll_CGZoL9_hmLOdv0v6P46Q029fh0/s320/photo+5.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The same wet
weather that favored the mosquito community had increased the flow of the falls
to triple or quadruple its normal volume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A paddler could normally paddle under the flow and cool off but paddling
under this flow would result in an instantly snapped neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I'm not sure what the cfs flow was but at 8#/gallon there were tons of water cascading off the cliff every second. </span>This was bluntly pointed out to a couple of folks and
everyone kept back a decent distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The amount of spray and velocity of the wind coming off the water column highlighted the force of the falls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We regrouped to head back to the creek mouth and things became strung
out again, bad if the lake was active but again, with five coaches spread
out and keeping contact with everyone it worked OK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After 'riding drag' as we paddled and pulled our boats back up the creek
to Beaver Lake, we encountered the southwest wind in the wake of the storm that
had nicked us. Our friends off Grand Island had a hell of a time getting back
with with gusts up to 30mph but fortunately minimal fetch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of our newer paddlers had a tough time
on the inland lake but we all managed to get to the small channel to the bay in good shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">LIke real
estate values, the key to this tour was location, location, location. It was arguably the best tour choice of that stormy Thursday. One tour was called
off, a couple more delayed, and the Grand Island ones offered a bit more
challenge than some people had hoped for. Tow belts were indeed deployed. We missed the lightning and were in
the lee of the SW wind while on the big lake. It seemed that everyone had a
great experience as evidenced by the beer fueled conversations at the annual
Beers with Bill slide show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than a
bit of towing, all we guides had to do was paddle, chat, and keep our eyes
open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most of 'em, it was a good
day to be on the</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">water</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
DaveOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552131869044539704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286641616677658414.post-31474388018690012582013-07-09T09:08:00.001-05:002013-07-09T09:08:36.677-05:00The Sand Island bear closure<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Our 'first
crossing' trip went almost perfectly for our group of 14 paddlers on the last
weekend before ‘the 4<sup>th</sup>’ in the Apostle Islands.<span> </span>The weather cooperated nicely with cool
temps, partly cloudy skies, and a breeze that freshened at about the same rate
as the paddlers skill level increased.<span>
</span>It was obvious we had some veteran campers and it was fun to see people
become more comfortable in their boats.<span>
</span>A person can practice strokes and maneuvering all they want but the real
test is moving forwards, backwards, and sideways in the sea caves and everyone
passed that little pop quiz quite nicely. The mosquitoes were quite active but,
like most things, folks got used to them with a combination of DEET and bug
nets.<span> </span>I also noted that mosquito
discomfort was inversely<span> </span>proportional to
beer consumed.<span> </span>A few of us even got a
swim in, some (OK, me) after being politely informed, 'you stink!'.<span> </span>Water on the north end of Sand was at least
15F colder than on the south end, a good reminder of why we dress for immersion
on Gitchee Gumee.<span> </span>We also had some nice
talks with at least three rangers and the volunteer on Sand.<span> </span>The overriding topic was bears.<span> </span>In particular one bear that had been
raiding the campsites for the past few days.<span>
</span>When I got home and opened my email on Monday morning, I saw that the
Park Service had closed Sand Island indefinitely to overnites due to bear activity.<span> </span>This brought back some deja vu from the last
time our group were the last ones to use the campsite on an island.<span> </span>In that case it was Manitou and the closure
was for the entire season because of a bear. Then a couple days later, after the bear raided some
sausages from a beached boat on Lighthouse Bay, the island was closed for all
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Closing Sand
right before the 4th of July must have created some incredible disruptions.<span> </span>Two large group sites and 4 individual sites
would make for a maximum total of 48 people per night that would need to be
moved. This would require some creative juggling because there just aren't that
many options, although it sounds like the rangers and staff were able to pull
it off.<span> </span>If we consider that most of
these group sites were chosen by lottery on January 8th of this yea, we can get
a bit of an idea of the effect that this closure will have. Like most human interaction,
some people will roll with the punches while others will be indignant and
pissed off. I do not envy the park staff doing the campsite shuffle, especially
when very few extra sites are available during this peak season.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Back to the
bear. From what we heard last weekend it was one bear, with the theory being it
was a yearling male that momma bear had kicked out on his own.<span> </span>Even now food is scarce due to the late spring and this guy is exploring and trying to figure
out how to survive. So far it has torn up a tent to get at some toothpaste,
ripped open a kayak hatch to get at some food that some idiot decided to leave
on the beach instead of sticking in a bear box, and stealthily snuck into camp
and grabbed food that was left out while the campers were otherwise occupied.
Plus the boat incident on the other side of the island. <span> </span>In other words, campers that were lax in
taking care of their consumables have conditioned this young bear that food can
be had around people.<span> </span>Shame on us for
being stupid.<span> </span>Once again irresponsible
actions by a few people, whether through ignorance, sloth, or actively ignoring
good camping practice, have created a major pain in the ass for the rest of the
responsible campers and outfitters. So, as V.I. Lenin asked in the early part
of the last century, What Is To Be Done?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Park
Service will attempt to 'train the bear to be afraid of humans'.<span> </span>Those really loud airhorns (‘like’ the AINL
on FB and you can watch a jerky 10 second clip of a bear being chased away from
the Oak Island dock area with such a horn), fireworks, and other things to
disassociate humans with food are utilized.<span>
</span>Closing the island to camping also automatically culls out the 5% of
idiots who don't think the food rules and bear box usage applies to them.<span> </span>Relocating and shooting are also no longer
acceptable, although 'Scarface', the bear that closed Manitou and backed a
volunteer into the outhouse a few years back, is alleged and rumored to be
peering over a desk as a head mount somewhere.<span> </span>The
islands are open to deer and bear hunting in the fall<span> </span>but the logistics are such a pain in the rear end that
most people don't do it.<span> That and the fact that there are plenty of bears in Wisconsin elsewhere, 25,000 by last count.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It's a tough
situation.<span> </span>I don't remember the NPS ever
closing Sand Island or for that matter, any of the other jumping off point
islands, especially those with group sites.<span>
</span>Even though I don't have vote but if I did I'd go for relocation.<span> </span>The bear is in a condition of fending for
itself at this point and it might as well do its exploration and testing in a
more sparsely populated area.<span> </span>Our deer
camp was that spot for a number of years.<span>
</span>Bears caught in Bayfield or Washburn were transported to the western
part of the county and released.<span> </span>For
awhile we had lots of bears that just weren't that afraid of us, although other
than breaking into our shed to steal and maybe huff some gas and biting my ATV
seat a couple times as it sat in the woods, we had no real trouble. Just last
week however, a bear showed up on the porch and ate some burger, mayo, and ice
from a cooler that was sitting there. We may be in the same boat as the NPS
with a problem bruin.<span> </span>If relocated, Yogi
may swim back to Sand but that could take awhile.<span> </span>In the meantime both campers with long term
reservations and park service employees who have to tell them they are screwed
will have a much more enjoyable summer if the offending bear is elsewhere.<span> </span>As I've said here before, no matter
what you name it or what the Federal Government decides to designate it, it
just ain't a wilderness.<span> </span>Old cars,
roads, a couple stone foundations, and cottages all point to the fact that it
was a human settlement area years before someone decided it was part of the
Gaylord Nelson Wilderness Area.<span> </span>Deal
with the bear.<span> </span>It was there first, it
lives there, it isn't it's fault, etc., etc., etc., are all valid points.<span> </span>It's also a major human use point in a
National Lakeshore during peak season, the start of the most visited two months
in the park. Even a yearling can be dangerous, as my friend the BearWhisperer
related to me when a yearlingabout the size of a ten year old kid woke up
when they were checking hibernating bears as part of a research project.<span> </span>He is a well muscled 6'2" guy and told
me that this bear </span>was kicking his ass until his partner
stepped in to help. Bears of any size are not to be trifled with.<span> </span>If a week drags into two weeks and then a
month and then it’s Labor Day, I don’t think anyone will say the cost/benefit
of leaving the problem bear running around on Sand, using it as it’s own
private bear preserve and spa, would come out on the positive side of the
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