LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kiba]

Thanks Just27


Moose: That sounds like a really fun canoe trip. Anything even remotely similar to Algonquin Park must be spectacular. I don't mind the black flies so much, it's the horse flies that give me the scares.

[BAZzy]

Thanks Just27


Moose: That sounds like a really fun canoe trip. Anything even remotely similar to Algonquin Park must be spectacular. I don't mind the black flies so much, it's the horse flies that give me the scares.

Must say I am envious.....I hope you have a good trip and catch lot's of trout.

What sort of canoe do you use for the trip?


...last few days I have been doing a time trial at the gym I weight train in. 15 minute, 10 minute, and 5 minute time interval. Currently leading the 15 & 10 minute, yet to do the 5 minute! Last day tomorrow

[DuluthMoose]

Kiba - There are horse flies in the BWCA also, but I usually don't see them until late June. I don't expect them this trip. I don't like them either especially when they sneak up on you when you are swimming and take a pound of flesh. But because of the swarms of black flies that can occur in the spring, my own opinion is black flies are worse. I will have a bug screened tarp along to be able to cook and eat in peace in anticipation of them. And I've advised everyone to have a head net along. I have to laugh because I'm reminded of the old 60's Bill Stains folk song, "The Black Fly Song"; especially verse 4.....
It was black fly, black fly everywhere
A crawlin' in your whiskers, a crawlin' in your hair
A swimmin' in your soup, and a swimmin' in your tea
Oh the devil take the black fly, and let me be
Chorus:
And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black flies, no matter where you go
I'll die with the black flies a pickin' my bones
In North Ontar i o i o, In North Ontar i o

Here is a YouTube of a much older Bill Stains performing the Black Fly Song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIJmpOSolgw

Baz - We will be on big lakes that are orientated east and west. Foul weather makes for the wind out of the east and fair weather makes for the wind out of the west. So I will be in a tandem Canadian style open canoe that can easily handle 2 foot waves with a full load of about 550 pounds. Experience says I will see wind and waves..... My canoe on this trip is my Wenonah Champlain
http://www.wenonah.com/products/templat ... d8b038badc

[BAZzy]

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Baz - We will be on big lakes that are orientated east and west. Foul weather makes for the wind out of the east and fair weather makes for the wind out of the west. So I will be in a tandem Canadian style open canoe that can easily handle 2 foot waves with a full load of about 550 pounds. Experience says I will see wind and waves..... My canoe on this trip is my Wenonah Champlain
http://www.wenonah.com/products/templat ... d8b038badc[/quote]

That is a big canoe....we used to use one on the rivers and creeks during our 'outback' trips, but use a zodiac inflatable these days. Broke a prop on the outboard one day and had to row it about 15 klms...surprisingly it rowed okay.

But must say I love paddling, still getting used to sitting the wrong way around when rowing. You must be taking a fair amount of gear? and hope the trout are biting!

[Kona2]

Zap 'em !

[BAZzy]

Zap 'em !

There's so many flies down here.........

http://www.convictcreations.com/animals/flies.htm

[DuluthMoose]

[quote="BAZzy"]You must be taking a fair amount of gear?


Baz - By the time I get my boots on, my life jacket on, and my paddle - I'm pushing 250 lbs of that load just myself. I'm 6'2" tall with a long torso and long arms; kind of like putting a small gorilla in the back of that canoe. So most of the load weight is people, but there will be a few luxury items along like camp chairs and extra tarps this trip because I won't be moving camp every day. But because there are portages, that tends to limit how much gear and food weight folks are willing to put on their backs and carry.

Kona2 - One bottle of bug zap would last maybe 5 minutes at most. In black fly season there will be more than 30 of them buzzing around your head, crawling in your ears, biting you behind the ears or just above your socks anytime between sunup and sundown. You can't win a chemical war against them, there is a gazillion more of them waiting their turn at you...

[Kona2]

Moose - no wonder you joined us on our journey to the moon! You have to have some respite from the insects, although I suspect we could encounter some space gnats....

Woohoo! We're going to hit FOUR million today! Row, spacers, row!

Season meters as of 13/365 = 3,916,856 m

Total meters on the day = 305,356 m

Oars in space = 51 percent

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

And it's just27 (could she be going for TWENTY-SEVEN in a row? with Half Marathon # 13 in a row...

And thanks to today's crew for moving us closer to our target moon and to your personal goals:

David T G 61,675 m (gotta love these kinds of numbers in an update!)
K2 23,000 m
Chris 21,097 m
Kiba 20,000 m
Bazzy 18,725 m
Peter H 15,418 m
Ted 14,793 m
Darryl 14,406 m
Barbara 14,030 m
Jim 11,091 m
Steven 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Tim 10,000 m
Gina 8,690 m (whoa! must have been some extra vim and vigor in this rowing session!)
Rick 6,495 m
Mitch (Big Maq) 6,063 m
Peter G 6,000 m
Dan T 5,700 m
Tom R 5,645 m
Mary 5,022 m
Tony 3,333 m

[acrewer]

Gina 8,690 m (whoa! must have been some extra vim and vigor in this rowing session!)

Well, I missed my workout on Tuesday and I fighting to get on the 5K board. With teenagers to feed, mom only usually gets 30 minutes on the erg before they want dinner! Yesterday I was able to row for 40.

Gina

[DavGarcia]

Ah yeah, I kept forgetting to upload the log card >_< I'd remember the next day, but then I'd just wait until after the next workout... then repeat the process over and over again.

[Kona2]

Congratulations! You made it through the week! Happy Friday...or Saturday for our Aussie mates! Crew members were able to throw Mike S a line to the ship after he was spotted out on extended walkabout... and he's posted a mega-meter update.



Season meters as of 14/365 = 4,290,569 m

Total meters on the day = 373,713 m

Oars in space: 47 percent

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights.....Celebrations:

300K Dan C

Half Marathon # 14...in a row...
Half Marathon # 11 Dan C

And thanks to today's crew for all the kinds of meters:

Mike S 149,099 m
Dan 31,101 m
Chris 21,097 m
Kiba 20,000 m
Baz 18,747 m
Darryl 14,512 m
Jim 12,000 m
Dave H 11,664 m for today; 14,183 m for yesterday ( I don't miss recording them often....but I blew past this number yesterday on my way to an early tee time)
Barbara 11,028 m
Teresa 10,124 m
AJ 10,018 m
Steven 10,000 m
Ted 10,000 m
Tim 10,000 m
Gina 8,586 m (wowzer....training hungry teenagers to let you have more time on the rower! good deal!)
Mitch (Big Maq) 6,069 m
Peter G 6,000 m
Dave G 5,321 m (good to see a forum posting from you!)
Mary 5,014 m
Tony 3,333 m (for the 14th day in a row...this year)

[DuluthMoose]

So who's going to break the chain first, Just 27 or Tony? Hey you guys are just about as stuck in a rut as I am!!!!!

[tony501]

It will be Just 27 that breaks the chain.

[just27]

It will be Just 27 that breaks the chain.

You'll get no argument from me, Tony!

[Kona2]

There are rowing days that surely feel like they are forged in the fires....and there is good reason for the team chains to remain unbroken...so we'll weld what we can and for the rest....well, there is duct tape...

And, Chris, please don't find that picture of the sumo wrestler and the duct tape again.....it was an uff da!