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• Family enjoys going to BWCA
  • For natural environment
  • Goes every year
• Have two children
• Haven’t gone on canoe trips with a lot of traveling
  • Hard to manage portages and packing gear while young
    • Last summer did trip with more travel
  • Son is 8 and can manage backpack
  • Daughter is 6–can carry school backpack
• I carried Duluth Pack
• Another family of four came
• They brought the food
• I carried clothes in my pack
• Arrived at the BWCA
  • Off the Echo Trail
    • Hegman Lake
  • Had to walk 1/4 mile from parking area
  • Trip went from Hegman lake to other lakes
    • Have to portage between lakes
      • Portage means carrying boat on shoulders
    • Chose Hegman Lake because of short portages
      • Didn’t want long portages with kids
  • At Parking area, sent kids off
  • Experienced with being in BWCA
    • Know what is safe or not
  • I carried gear down to lake
    • Not very far
    • Calculating how many “knots”
      (Editor’s note: The term she is searching for is actually “rod” which is the measurement used for portages. One rod equals 16-1/2 feet .)
      • Unsure of the math
      • Wanting help on figuring out equation
        • Never mind
      • Felt like 1/4 mile
    • Brought canoe first
    • Got Duluth Pack Second
    • Have to be careful of my back
      • Some can carry both pack and canoe
      • Trip went a long well
        • One day particularly memorable
        • Happened on a big lake
          • Should know that I don’t always require my son to wear a life jacket
            • He’s good at swimming
            • More tough on my daughter about life jacket
            • She doesn’t like wearing it
            • Set up in the boat
            • Me in back
              v My daughter in the middle ß My son in front
              v If daughter in front, canoe tips way back ß Kevlar canoe, but still hard to paddle
              •    Better to have son in front plus day pack to balance weight v Very windy that day with big waves
              y? Heading back at the end of the trip ß At first, son very excited about canoeing
              v Cocky about his own ability y? But had only gone on shorter trips
              •    Toward the end of trip, started to get crabby about having to paddle ?    This day was the worst
              v Couldn’t go straight into the wind y? Had to zig-zag
              ?    Boat was unbalanced v Wanted to daughter to move up by son, but didn’t want her to move and tip the boat
              ß Boat was stable, but I was paranoid ?    Got son’s attention and asked him to move forward and paddle
              •    He was obviously angry
              y? I was frustrated v Yelled at my son and called him lazy
              ß Can you imagine me saying that to my own son? •    Ordered my daughter to move forward to balance the boat
              v What would have taken 2-3 hrs in calm weather took all day y? Sometimes we got stuck in currents which made it worse
              ß I was paddling on my knees which hurt but I didn’t care •    Finally, gave up on trying to make a direct crossing
              v Hugged the shoreline until we made it around
    • y? Made it take much longer ß We made it to shore
      y? My son was exhausted
      y? I felt awful v I apologized to my son for my outburst
      ?    He accepted my apology v The memory still bothers me
      y? But it was a horrible situation trying to make that crossing