Canoe Report

Well, we all made it back alive. As I said on my last post, I was heading up to the boundary waters canoe area for a trip with a couple of friends. None of us were are the most avid outdoorsmen, so there was a little bit of nervousness by basically everyone that we'd get lost in the woods or eaten by a bear. But were all back safe and sound and had a terrific time.

Two funny stories from the trip;

We took a tow boat to our first portage. This allowed us to cut out 3 hours of canoeing on or first lake and dropped us off at a location that was canoe only. Anyways, as soon as we are getting dropped off, Aaron fell butt first into the water. So we had basically not even started our trip, and someone had already fallen into the water.

On the last morning of our trip, Brian decided to help out with the cooking for the first time and attempted to heat up some water with the small propane stoves we had. They were fairly simple to use and we had used them for every meal that required any sort of cooking. Well, Brian did a couple things wrong and a few minutes after he started the burner; most of it was engulfed in flames. He was able to bat it out with a cloth and turn down the heat enough to fix the problem, but we were pretty close to burning down our site.

The misquotes and fly's were terrible, but I kept saying that if it didn't suck a little, everyone would be there and it wouldn't be as cool.