[Paddlewise] Rest of the Winter

We shivering Northerners do not necessarily have to go sleep in the frozen
slush after half past October when the gales blow the leaves down to Keokuk
and the frozen bananas can be used for hammers. 

In search of liquid water, we can always (almost) gravitate to Lake
Superior's balmy shores- the Norwegian Riviera.  For those of us who have
paddled on the Big Lake in every month of the year, there are adventures to
be found. Like the day trip in January when it was 11 deg. F (-12 C) and I
found my spray skirt frozen solidly to the coaming. It took a bit of
pounding with a frozen pogie to get out of the kayak back at the beach. Or
the time in March when the ice floes closed in and I had to pull myself
back through the leads with the ice axe used to climb back on shore with.

Now doesn't that sound like more fun than trying to land a slippery old
fish?

-Andy Knapp
Minneapolis
(somewhat southeast of Flin Flon)
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