Gordon, you hit the proverbial nail on the head. Last year my wife and I made a long-postponed trip on Lake Superior from Silver Islet to Rossport, Ontario. A kayaking guidebook I checked had very little useful information aside from the put-in and takeout. Bonnie Dahl's book The Superior Way, a sailing guidebook, had more of the detailed information I wanted, but still not enough. I got some good information about campsites from two people who had made the trip before. Some of the information was right on; some was marginal or inaccurate; some was probably affected by the passage of time (one was at the site of an old burn we could no longer see). We found some good sites that neither had mentioned, and failed to verify some of the information we had because we passed on the other side of an island. I'm preparing my notes and maps for yet another group, but I don't know, in some cases, how useful it will be, because we preferred level beaches for our tent, whereas most of the other group will be using hammocks. And though we had generally good weather, we made less time than we expected because, when the weather looked threatening, we made for a known campsite rather than risk trying to find one that might not be there. One could make an aphorism of it: "When in doubt, take out." Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jan 30 2005 - 19:11:55 PST
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