This year my daughter Anna asked if she could go with me on my Fall trip. Other then day trips, it would be her first real canoe trip. She is 18 and I knew that there might not be many more opportunities for us to do something like this as her life will get busier in the future. Last spring I headed up north for a trip and ended up car camping and taking day trips instead of a multi night canoe trip due to a ominous gut feeling about tripping . This time I got sick with a head cold the day before we left for vacation. I decided to go anyway and see what happens. We left home on Thursday 9/24 and drove to Fall Lake camp ground where I got a camp site for two nights. Saturday the 26th we left from the Fall Lake entry point and headed for US Point on Basswood Lake. After 16 miles and two ports we arrived at this elevated camp site on the border.
It had a real easy landing. We took advantage of the easy access later that night and went on a moonlight paddle.
Canada just across the lake.
With my daughter along there ended being more pictures with me in them. Here I'm getting water for supper.
I use a Coleman white gas stove.
This ended up being our favorite meal on the trip. Beef and potatoes. It consists of 3/4 cup dehydrated ground beef. 1 1/2 cup Hungry Jack dried hash browns. One package of brown gravy mix. Dried minced onion. Feeds Two. I combine ingredients at home and vacuum seal them for individual meals.
Anna watching the sun set.
Anna wanted to go for a moonlight paddle. My point and shoot camera didn't know what to do with this shot. Maybe it was operator error.
There was a T-storm forecast for later the next day so we moved about 7 miles to a campsite on Back Bay I knew of that had shelter from the west wind. On the way I miss judged some wave conditions while skirting a lake and we had some tense paddling till we got to a cove.
Anna made herself at home where ever we went.
Never got the T-storm but it did rain during the night.
Anna caught me journalling the day's events.
The weather stayed nice for several days so after the canoe trip we went back to Fall Lake camp ground for three more nights and took two day trips.
I got to think this "eagle head" shaped rock must have freaked out the first nations people.
I had just shoved my paddle under the floating bog as far as I could reach to show Anna what was going on here. She thought it was sort of creepy.
Well all good things must come to an end. Next year! Dave
It had a real easy landing. We took advantage of the easy access later that night and went on a moonlight paddle.
Canada just across the lake.
With my daughter along there ended being more pictures with me in them. Here I'm getting water for supper.
I use a Coleman white gas stove.
This ended up being our favorite meal on the trip. Beef and potatoes. It consists of 3/4 cup dehydrated ground beef. 1 1/2 cup Hungry Jack dried hash browns. One package of brown gravy mix. Dried minced onion. Feeds Two. I combine ingredients at home and vacuum seal them for individual meals.
Anna watching the sun set.
Anna wanted to go for a moonlight paddle. My point and shoot camera didn't know what to do with this shot. Maybe it was operator error.
There was a T-storm forecast for later the next day so we moved about 7 miles to a campsite on Back Bay I knew of that had shelter from the west wind. On the way I miss judged some wave conditions while skirting a lake and we had some tense paddling till we got to a cove.
Anna made herself at home where ever we went.
Never got the T-storm but it did rain during the night.
Anna caught me journalling the day's events.
The weather stayed nice for several days so after the canoe trip we went back to Fall Lake camp ground for three more nights and took two day trips.
I got to think this "eagle head" shaped rock must have freaked out the first nations people.
I had just shoved my paddle under the floating bog as far as I could reach to show Anna what was going on here. She thought it was sort of creepy.
Well all good things must come to an end. Next year! Dave
