Since 1991 I have taken at least one canoe trip a year. Due to a back injury I was unable to get out this spring and summer. I was hoping to get out in the fall but life had other plans for me. I had a 29 year run, how long is your streak?
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Much the same situation Al.
It is hard to date the start of my “tripping streak”. For sure I got out on a multi-day trip at least once a year since the mid-80’s, and from ’88 to 2019 multiple trips a year.
This year, no multi-day trips; I missed my window in Feb/March hoping for good weather and then Covid restrictions and closures got in the way, and all I managed was a few day trips.
Hoping 2021 post-vaccination is a better year.
EDIT: If backpacking trips count 1972 -2019
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Beginning in the mid 1970s I would have at least one Adirondack solo trip each year. Some were only backpacking, many were also combined with using a canoe to get me to a remote location to get me bushwhacking off any trail. I always knew it was time to go when my wife told me so 
, although in some of the earlier years it was sometimes a canoe camping trip with her and then with two kids and a dog in the canoe as well. At some point it became only me solo again. But then in 1990 I was recruited to become an instructor for a program week of BSA high adventure trek leader guide training, which involves multiple days of canoe instruction in combination with backpacking. I've done that each year ever since, up until Covid cancelled all such BSA activity for 2020. During that time I usually also continued my own solo trips. I have been a canoe racer since 1997, so between time spent training and actual races, my solo multiple trips per year have become less frequent. But 5 of those years after 2008 were spent overnight on the Yukon River.
, although in some of the earlier years it was sometimes a canoe camping trip with her and then with two kids and a dog in the canoe as well. At some point it became only me solo again. But then in 1990 I was recruited to become an instructor for a program week of BSA high adventure trek leader guide training, which involves multiple days of canoe instruction in combination with backpacking. I've done that each year ever since, up until Covid cancelled all such BSA activity for 2020. During that time I usually also continued my own solo trips. I have been a canoe racer since 1997, so between time spent training and actual races, my solo multiple trips per year have become less frequent. But 5 of those years after 2008 were spent overnight on the Yukon River.
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For me, it's been at least one trip a year since 2007......Prior to that, it was primarily backpacking trips.
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I "restarted" paddling in 1986, my partner for the first 10 years bailed after the 1996 season and I didn't do anything in 1997. In 1998 I went on my first solo trip and haven't missed a year since. In 2020 I was out for 35 days (2 trips) the least since 2013.
By this time of year I usually have a fairly solid plan for my major trip in the following summer, not this year, I have not come up with anything because of the uncertainty. I do have a tentative plan for the last two weeks of May 2021 so I hope for a relatively early breakup in the lower James Bay area.
By this time of year I usually have a fairly solid plan for my major trip in the following summer, not this year, I have not come up with anything because of the uncertainty. I do have a tentative plan for the last two weeks of May 2021 so I hope for a relatively early breakup in the lower James Bay area.
Late to the game, I started in 2007 and this year was a weak one due to Medical Treatment and Covid. The streak will end when I'm totally laid up. I've got a couple of grandsons I'll snag as forced labor sherpas to prolong the streak.
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I had a 30 yr streak going until 2019 ( open heart surgery in March) and cardiologist frowned on any canoe tripping that year. Now, despite Covid, I'm on a 1 year streak. WOW!
I'm a short timer, mine is 12 years, since 2009. But I only got into canoeing in 2006.
Even though I rarely can get away for long trips, I live near some good canoe country, so the short trips keep me going. Small beer is better than no beer.
Even though I rarely can get away for long trips, I live near some good canoe country, so the short trips keep me going. Small beer is better than no beer.
I was an occasional canoe tripper till 14 years ago when i survived bladder cancer. While in treatment i vowed to canoe trip more. Since then I trip locally or in the adks at least 4 trips a year and grateful to be blessed with another year.. last summer included. have a blessed newyear,Turtle
I don't know. Hardcore since 1989. I think we did a trip of five days or so every year since 1963 but it was so long ago I must have taken time off when the kids were little though our first big canoe trip as a family was in 1973 in the Boundary Waters with a two year old. There were prior trips in the ADKs for sure. No big trips this year though we were on the water plenty. Our longest 2020 overnight trip was to Lobster Lake everything else stymied by drought and in the day trip category
I'm guessing at least 25 years with at least one trip a year. Things before that are a bit of a blur and after 2018 or so I pretty much gave it up knowing my back problems would make it a miserable time not just for me but potentially for anyone else along. Kind of accepting that a long weekend with base camping/paddling is about what I can do these days. Hoping that when the virus stuff is under control I can go back to the specialist and see what more can be done to my aching old back!
My boys are 45 now, I took them for the first time when they where 7, can't remember before that. We did a trip to the ADK's either early spring or fall every year till they got older and other interests like football, cars, girls...
I increased my solo trips when they bailed, I had a ton of vacation time in those years, sometimes 2 trips to Canada a season.
2018/2019 my health and mind set just had me stay close to home, no overnights or even day trips iirc.
2020 was a good year, after moving to Maine and helping my wife set up our new place I managed 3 trips up to the North Maine Woods for a total of 14 nights this Sept/October so the current streak stands at 1.
I increased my solo trips when they bailed, I had a ton of vacation time in those years, sometimes 2 trips to Canada a season.
2018/2019 my health and mind set just had me stay close to home, no overnights or even day trips iirc.
2020 was a good year, after moving to Maine and helping my wife set up our new place I managed 3 trips up to the North Maine Woods for a total of 14 nights this Sept/October so the current streak stands at 1.
Been paddling and camping in the ADK’s since the ‘60’s with a gap in my teen years
Haven't missed a season since I restarted trips in 1976. Daughter has been on trips since she was 1-1/2 years old, son was on Lake Lila at 6 months and he swears he remembers it!!
Haven't missed a season since I restarted trips in 1976. Daughter has been on trips since she was 1-1/2 years old, son was on Lake Lila at 6 months and he swears he remembers it!!
Missed 2 years in an almost 60 year span. Trips are getting shorter and easier as I go from adventurer to just being there.
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Six years. We are newbies. We restarted paddling about 10 years ago, and started canoe camping in 2015. We tripped 3 times in 2020, all in the ADK's.
Wow, my 29 years is nothin compared to some of you. The thing that bothers me most is that I didn't make it to what has become my own personal campsite in the Kenai National Wildlife refuge. Making it to that campsite for spring rainbow fishing was my way to tell if all was right with the world.
I hope everyone who missed getting out for health reasons is on the mend. Like Gerald said, shorter and easier is better than not getting out at all, it's about just being out there.
I hope everyone who missed getting out for health reasons is on the mend. Like Gerald said, shorter and easier is better than not getting out at all, it's about just being out there.
I started running rivers in 1960 which is 60 years. I missed a few years due to injuries. Some years I went on raft trips instead. In the 1980s I was too busy packing mules and hunting to run any rivers.
Multi-night trips every year since 1973. Until 2020 I took Canadian trips every year since 2007 and several of those years I was lucky enough go on several trips in one year. Last year broke my Canadian streak but I did get in a three night trip in Upper Michigan.
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