RE: [Paddlewise] Voyageurs

But, my main point was related to how these folks made progress
paddling.  Obviously  keeping that pace over a long time would kill us.
In the book from which I pulled some of this info, there was a quote
from an old-timer(in 60's) that it was the best life and he would do it
all over again.  We can do it a few weeks a year.

Steve

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	stephen.bird_at_superaje.com
[SMTP:stephen.bird_at_superaje.com]
	Sent:	Wednesday, April 01, 1998 6:36 AM
	To:	PaddleWise
	Subject:	Re: [Paddlewise] Voyageurs

	On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:07:56 -0500, you wrote:

	>"P.S. By the way, these guys would carry 2, sometimes 3, 90 lb.
bales of
	>furs over the portage trails. "
	>And in good weather, these guys would average 75 miles a day
along the
	>north shore of Lake Superior in their freight canoes en route
to and from
	>Grand Portage.

	And I seem to recall that these guys died really young, probably
of
	exhaustion, broken bodies, or whatever.... not a fun life,
methinks.
	-- 
	cheers, Stephen                     stephen.bird_at_superaje.com
	
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