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 ************************************************************************ *** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ************************************************************************ *** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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