For those of you interested in kayaking in Lake Powell the news is pretty grim the lake is down 50% and is expected to go even lower. Read about it here: http://www.livingrivers.org/media/article.cfm?NewsID=424 I guess there might not be much water in the Grand Canyon this year either. -- MZ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I am trying to find more information about kayaking on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. On one hand I am curious about shorter trips on the South end of the lake but I am also considering the logistics of a crossing from the Red River to Norway House on the East side. I am aware of some of the more obvious references (like "Canoeing with the Cree") but am interested in finding more information that would apply to kayaking on the lake, or just more detail on travel logistics in general. People that write about the lake talk about unpredictable waters, fierce storms, and true wilderness isolation. I guess that is maybe why it sounds so interesting! It seems very few people actually attempt the crossing at all, I am wondering if anyone has done it by sea kayak. Any information or leads? Anyone interested in putting aside common sense and pondering a crossing a couple years out? Aaron White Minneapolis, MN *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/extraneous text from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] No personal experience - just the day before have seen the film on TV on crossing the Lake Winnipeg to Norway House (in a norway boat, rowing and sailing). Wow... nice scenery, but mosquitoes were a disaster. These guys tried to reproduce 1840 conditions - Norway boat, pemmican food, no bug repellents, no mesh tents etc. Don't remember name of the film, though. It will be continued soon (pains of portaging from Norway house farther north :-)...Sorry for this bla-bla :-) Alex. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron White" <aaronwhite_at_mn.rr.com> Subject: [Paddlewise] Lake Winnipeg > I am trying to find more information about kayaking on Lake > Winnipeg in Manitoba. On one hand I am curious about shorter > trips on the South end of the lake but I am also considering the > logistics of a crossing from the Red River to Norway House on the > East side. I am aware of some of the more obvious references > (like "Canoeing with the Cree") but am interested in finding more > information that would apply to kayaking on the lake, or just more > detail on travel logistics in general. People that write about the > lake talk about unpredictable waters, fierce storms, and true > wilderness isolation. I guess that is maybe why it sounds so > interesting! It seems very few people actually attempt the crossing > at all, I am wondering if anyone has done it by sea kayak. > > Any information or leads? Anyone interested in putting aside > common sense and pondering a crossing a couple years out? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> No personal experience - just the day before have seen the film on TV on > crossing the Lake Winnipeg to Norway House (in a norway boat, rowing and > sailing). Wow... nice scenery, but mosquitoes were a disaster. These guys > tried to reproduce 1840 conditions - Norway boat, pemmican food, no bug > repellents, no mesh tents etc. Don't remember name of the film, though. It > will be continued soon (pains of portaging from Norway house farther north > :-)...Sorry for this bla-bla :-) Sounds like you're referring to History Television Canada's "Quest for the Bay". It's a series of historical recreations along those lines. The first was Homesteading in Manitoba, then the one you saw, and the current one "Klondie - Quest for the gold". You can see the page for "Quest for the Bay" here: http://www.historytelevision.ca/quest/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Look at the positive side. There are a lot of spots that the power boats could go that are now close to the surface. Hopefully, a bunch of them will go aground and sink. -----Original Message----- From: Mary Zuschlag For those of you interested in kayaking in Lake Powell the news is pretty grim the lake is down 50% and is expected to go even lower. Read about it here: http://www.livingrivers.org/media/article.cfm?NewsID=424 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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