The Great Outdoors

[TDub]

Dammit. Im getting tired of not drawing an Elk tag.

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[Overlander]

Dammit. Im getting tired of not drawing an Elk tag.

Pencil the outline first.

[Deleted User 89]

here’s something kinda fun and amazing...

a rufous hummingbird, which are about the size of your thumb, was recently captured by biologists in Alaska. the animal had been banded while wintering in Florida.

quite the trek

[ousdahl]

Anybody canoe camped before?

Like bring all your camp shit in a canoe to get to your campsite on the far side of a lake and shit

[Deleted User 887]

yes

[TDub]

Anybody canoe camped before?

Like bring all your camp shit in a canoe to get to your campsite on the far side of a lake and shit

Yep. Used to go down the Buffalo River (Arkansas) canoe camping for 5 days every year. Its a great time

[Deleted User 89]

not canoe, but multi-day rafting on the Chama in northern New Mexico

[TDub]

Did a 7 day raft/camp down the Salmon River in Idaho. Best trip of my life probably. It was amazing. That country is where i wanna be someday. The River of No Return ranks right up there with the best wilderness in the world. In my opinion.

[jhawks99]

Anybody canoe camped before?

Like bring all your camp shit in a canoe to get to your campsite on the far side of a lake and shit

Yeah, when I was 18, so about 75 years ago.
It was fun, down the Current River/Jack's Fork in the 'Zarks.
We did 25 miles the first day and maybe 5 the second.

[Deleted User 89]

this fucking kid...

https://newsobserver.com/news/local/art ... 68458.html

[TDub]

Well, darwin has a way of sorting these things out

[pdub]

Anybody canoe camped before?

Like bring all your camp shit in a canoe to get to your campsite on the far side of a lake and shit

Yes sir, but as some said before, down a river instead of across a lake.
In mizzou, arkansas and new hampshire.

[TDub]

The ultimate canoe camper. Used to watch this often when it was on PBS. 40 + years of canoe camping.

[pdub]

I miss the heavier duty camping where you'd hike or boat or something other than car camp in.

But I'm lucky enough to have convinced the BUD to even be ok with a campground with showers, toilets and strung up lights around the tent with the inflatable ( insert joke here ) mattress.

[ousdahl]

Thanks you guys.

For this particular trip, we’re planning to float across a lake to a remote dispersed campsite that’s otherwise difficult to get to.

You can hike to it with a backpack, but that would particularly difficult with the cooler full of beers that we otherwise plan to float in the canoe.

And being bear country, there’s not a great way to bear-proof a cooler in the backcountry. So we’re gonna anchor one canoe out in the middle of the lake with the cooler stashed. Hopefully that keeps bears away.

Or rather, what if we go out there the next morning and there’s a bear passed out drunk in the canoe LOL

[pdub]

Solution?
Everyone hikes in their own bottle of Jack and finishes it that night.

[ousdahl]

Yeah, we’ll bring liquor too.

Imma mix up some Plano Manhattans in a Nalgene bottle.

But ice cold beer in a remote campsite will be quite the luxury, and that’s what we’re going for.

[pdub]

For sure.
Your plan seems the way to go.
You could always bear bag ( tie it, loop a limb, hoist bag ) some stuff too.
But the canoe deal sounds somewhat sound...until you wake up and your canoe is tipped.

[ousdahl]

Yea, that’ll be interesting.

There’s also a tree growing at an angle over the water that we might use as a bear bag tree, but will prob end up being a rope swing either way.