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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:21 am
by Caoimhin
Saturday morning I'm heading up to the Adirondaks for what has become my annual canoe trip. However, this time in order to celebrate one-hundred years of Scouting (in the US), we have decided to attempt a hundred-mile trek this year. And gosh darnit' we will! It won't be just an attempt... IT must happen... It WILL happen! My fellow Americans, and people of the varied nationalities that make Define Cynical a wonderful place to be, this trek will live in infamy! Heil- Whoops, got a bit carried away... Anyway, I'm psyched to put it bluntly.

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:37 am
by Bocaj Claw
Have a good annual centennial.

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:07 am
by Comrade K
A hundred miles by canoe?
Meh.
How much white water? If any, up to what class can you guys run?
What kind of canoes? Royalex? Kevlar?

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:37 pm
by gforce422
Have a killer time! :D

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:22 pm
by Muninn
May your trek be as eventful and exhilirating as one taken among the stars.

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:31 pm
by Caoimhin
A hundred miles by canoe?
Meh.
How much white water? If any, up to what class can you guys run?
What kind of canoes? Royalex? Kevlar?
I know one-hundred miles may not seem like alot, but it still is something to look forward to. Its improtant to know that we have five days to accomplish this, also given the age of the actual scouts which range from fourteen to sixteen years old it could be considered quite an accomplishment for them, considering what most American teenagers do with their free time(including what I did most of the time). There are no rapids, however, their are about six portages (carries) total on the trip; one of which is about a mile uphill. Even with the Kevlar canoes (which weigh only about 35lbs.) there is still the weight of the packs to take into account (about forty to fifty pounds, by the end of the trip they will be signifigantly lighter as there will be less food). Its tougher than it sounds. Also thanks guys :grin: .

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:34 pm
by Muninn
In my day we had to canoe 200 miles to school. Both ways. And on the trip back the waters would flow in the opposite direction to mess with us. Also we didn't have canoes, we'd make dinky little boats from paper and hope they wouldn't sink.

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:37 pm
by Doc Sigma
In my day we had to canoe 200 miles to school. Both ways. And on the trip back the waters would flow in the opposite direction to mess with us. Also we didn't have canoes, we'd make dinky little boats from paper and hope they wouldn't sink.
You had PAPER? Lucky bastard.

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:45 pm
by Muninn
Well when I say paper what I really meant was we had to swim with our bags and all. And when we got home our dads would beat us for being late.

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:06 pm
by Doc Sigma
Well when I say paper what I really meant was we had to swim with our bags and all. And when we got home our dads would beat us for being late.
Ahh, you did have it harder than me, then. When I got home, only one of my dads would beat me.

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:09 pm
by Muninn
It was funny how dad used to change from day to day, but if we ever asked about it our moms would beat us.

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:25 pm
by Chris
Have fun :wag:

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:32 pm
by Bocaj Claw
Well when I say paper what I really meant was we had to swim with our bags and all. And when we got home our dads would beat us for being late.
Ahh, you did have it harder than me, then. When I got home, only one of my dads would beat me.
Luxury!

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:59 pm
by bad ass antelope
better (supportive, official) link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw&fmt=18

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:33 pm
by Caoimhin
Got back a few hours ago. We got back into camp around 3PM, but were done with the hundred miles at 1PM. We averaged around 24 miles per day, except for the last day where we had to go only ten or so. We got into camp around 3:30-4:30PM everyday after paddling since about 7AM. Our voyageur was luckily the most experienced they had at camp, she had been doing it for six years. She normally works at a summer camp that does nothing but do these treks (although ours was the farthest any troop has ever gone, it was a modified 90-miler) called Floodwood.
We started at a small lake called Eighth Lake and continued on into 7th Lake and then down a river into Raquette Lake. The next day we travelled Long Lake (we actually did the entire lake in one day, a full eighteen miles after some river paddling from the day before and camped on a river called the Raquette River). After finishing Raquette River the order seems jumbled we went into several other lakes and actually back tracked to get to a place called Lake Flower which was our pick up spot. We went through Upper, Middle, and Lower Saranac lakes. Overall, the trek was quite an experience about 6 of the miles was done in portaging and at one point we were able to gunnel up and rig a sail out of canoe paddles and a tent fly and travelled 3 miles in such a way (I was one of the ones holding the paddles so I didn't get a break :P , but the real point was the fun :-P ). So yeah I'm back :).