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

[andreacs]

Dan, Chris, and Andrea: Nice to have you stop by on Sarah Lake. Just a tip but there's a really nice campsite with a great view ahead at about 63 kilometers. It's on an island in Brent Lake about 2 miles from the west end where it leads into the Darkwater River. No lake trout in the lake for supper there, but I promise there will be walleye frying! The next 5 pictures are at that campsite. There's plenty of room at the campfire!
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2997 ... t=outdoors

Chris: I'm not really fond of brussel sprouts, but will eat them if I have to.... I had some for Christmas dinner and they were sauteed with oil and slivered almonds. The almonds made them taste a little better than usual.

[...]

Darryl: Thanks for the invitation. I will definitely stop by. Likely much later than you, Dan and Chris...
Chris: I will definitely pick some Brussel sprouts from you on my way to the next camp site. Sorin found on the web a recipe with lemon juice. We loved it. I will send it if we are able to find it again .

Happy rowing (and eating, if we row enough )!

Andrea

[Kona2]

Wowzer!

Total Meters on the Day = 384,751 m
Team Members Registered = 45

Luna-Tics January Virtual Team Challenge Individual Standings

Name Total Event Meters
David A. Alden 21,357
Darryl Bathel 43,984
Kristine Bay 0
Alistair Black 13,527
Pat Byron 1,039
Kiba Chan 60,000
Andrea Cosmin 46,116
Ted Cowley-Gilbert 52,000
Daniel Cox 106,882
Karyn Gallagher 51,782
Rodrigo Garcia 0
barbara grandberg 11,080
David Grasfield 32,000
Nigel Greene 26,988
Kenneth Guenther 24,047
William Haag 140,406
Mitch Hambleton 50,000
Mary Harper 40,183
Robert Hess 40,000
Dawn Howe 5,000
David Hunter 75,019
Peter Huurman 15,000
Steven Larky 40,000
Gina Levy 23,927
John Longmire 37,247
Jane Newall 0
Orion Newall-Vuillemot 0
Anais Newall-Vuillemot 0
Elias Newall-Vuillemot 0
Angelo Papadopoulos 0
Anthony Parendo 36,663
Tom Pinckney 80,000
Tim Porter 35,206
Debbie Rohlwing 0
Will Salach 90,725
Eva-Kristin Schuster 0
Sorin Spanoche 14,000
Jan Stevenson 42,000
Kristine Strasburger 0
Tim Strasburger 0
Ben Strasburger 0
Keith Strasburger 0
AJ Tudury 26,199
Chris Tudury 91,307
Debbie Vuillemot 0

Total Meters 1,373,684

[Kona2]

Following the lead of the intrepid explorer, team members foraged for while portaging to the next lakeside camp. Le menu set forth by just27 was trout and sprouts. Walleye promised for next campsite.

Season meters as of 250/365 = 44,831,142 m

Total meters on the day = 275,061 m

Oars in the water = 30 percent

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

5.3 MM Will S
3.9 MM Dan
2.1 MM Tony
1.1 MM Peter H
Half Marathon #82 Dan

FOUR Million Meter Watch:

Dan with (83,800 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Angelo with (10,702 m) to go!

Kenneth G with (91,075 m) to go!

And thanks to today's crew:

William H 37,569 m
Will S 32,678 m
Dan 21,097 m
Tom P 20,000 m
Jack 17,187 m
Ted 16,000 m
Chris 15,031 m
Peter H 15,000 m
Darryl 14,727 m
Andrea 14,021 m
Jan 11,000 m
Mary 10,047 m
Steven 10,000 m
Tony 8,888 m
Karyn 8,552 m
Gina 8,228 m
Kenneth G 7,024 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Sorin 2,000 m
Laurie 1,012 m

Great start to the week! Row on!

[voodoogirl]

Hey everyone! I'm new to the team and just wanted to say hi and Happy New Year and that I finally got over my unfortunate new year's migraine and managed to eke out 1000m last night--fairly pitiful but at least I got on the erg! I'm hoping to contribute 150,000 to our team this month if all goes well.

I'm not a huge brussels sprouts fan but my husband adores them and we both love trout. I AM a huge farmer's market fan, however, and have to say that every vegetable I've ever gotten at one has been far better than expected. My husband Josh and I just moved to NE Iowa and there seem to be an abundance of farmer's markets here (once the ice and snow go away, that is!)--I'll make a note to try the sprouts this summer. I may become a convert....

Happy rowing, everyone!

Laurie

[Kona2]

Glad you joined the team, Laurie!

We do need for you to go to your logbook and select Luna-Tics under the team heading in order to be part of the JVC Luna-Tic Challenge Team. You are definitely on the year round team - each team member just has to select that s/he will participate in a challenge! All meters help and when you do select participation, we can count the meters you put in yesterday! Otherwise, they do count towards the team's totals, but not the JVC challenge.

[voodoogirl]

got it, did it--let me know if that didn't work. Thanks!

[just27]

... I just moved to NE Iowa and there seem to be an abundance of farmer's markets here (once the ice and snow go away....)
Laurie

Hi, Laurie ... I absolutely have to ask about your team name ... are you a computer programmer ... an Aerosmith fan ... a supersonic military fighter pilot ... or did you just move to NE Iowa from a small village in Haiti ... !?

Chris

[voodoogirl]

You mean "voodoogirl"? Ah....pretty simple really---I've had my own freelance writing business for about 8 years now and named IT "Voodoo Communications"--given that writing seems to involve magic, or magical thinking at least, or some sort of other worldly intervention, much of the time. So the voodoo piece carries over into a lot of other things....Yes I do have a small collection of Voodoo dolls.

I moved from just outside Washington, DC, to Iowa--"voodoo" anything in DC also seems too often far too appropriate! Interestingly, the Waterloo Center for the Arts has the largest Haitian art collection in the world. It's pretty cool.

I thought seriously about claiming to be a fighter pilot. That would be cool. But I'm not sure how long I could keep up the deception....

Laurie

[Toothdoc]

... I just moved to NE Iowa and there seem to be an abundance of farmer's markets here (once the ice and snow go away....)
Laurie

Hi, Laurie ... I absolutely have to ask about your team name ... are you a computer programmer ... an Aerosmith fan ... a supersonic military fighter pilot ... or did you just move to NE Iowa from a small village in Haiti ... !?

Chris

Chris,

You may have met your match (Laurie) or at least your equal in the mastery of the English language, esoteric miscellany and spinning a yarn.

I've never been able to handle you. Guess now I'm going to have to double check all my submissions and get a second decoder ring.

Dan C

[Kona2]

It worked - you're on the JVC roster.

[Kristine Strasburger]

Jan,

Looks like you need to do some spring cleaning on your photobucket account, or kick out some dough. You are in the red zone!

[Kona2]

Jan,

Looks like you need to do some spring cleaning on your photobucket account, or kick out some dough. You are in the red zone!

I think I have fixed photobucket issue. Apparently you all got a message that I could not see about bandwidth exceeded or something. The only red zone I want to be in is the closing in on million meters red zone!

Congrats to Tom P, Will S and Dan C for joining William H (Wild Bill!) in the 100K plus club for the JVC. All that in five days! And Chris is within striking distance today of same.

[Dave_H]

Hi fellow Luna-Tics!

Thought I should say g'day on behalf of any Aussies in the team (are there any others doing the JVC?).
Just past midday on the 6th here in Sydney, and out in the west we are heading for 41 degrees (C) this afternoon. I am sure it has contributed to the slowest half marathon time I have ever pulled (couldn't stop often enough to drink and stretch... particularly over the last 10k's ) - however I got there. I love this challenge and enjoy pushing the team's tally along each day, it is such a great thing to do after the indulgent season just finished!
Hope to crack the 100k later tonight, and goal is 500k for the challenge, allthough that gets a whole lot tougher when I go back to work next week...

Enjoy the vibe of the team - keep up the hard work everyone!
Dave

[kgallagher]

DuluthMoose,

Wow! That campsite looks amazing. I wished I stopped by myself, maybe next time I'm rowing by I'll pop in to say hi. I scrolled through a bunch of the pictures. I like the wall paintings. Any idea if those are ancient or a modern day attempt to recreate the past? I don't know if I could join you for the fish. I'm a vegetarian and don't eat much fish, but that did look like it might be worthwhile to at least take a bite. I'll pass on the brussel sprouts (ICK !) but if my hubby is on the trip with me, he'll eat my share. They're one of his favorite veggies.

Hiya Voodoogirl Laurie! Welcome to the team. I'm glad your migraine is gone and hopefully that was the only one you'll have for 2009. Whether you row 1m or multimillions, we are happy to have you on board. It's a long way to the moon and we appreciate all the help we get.

Karyn

[DuluthMoose]

Karyrn - The wall paintings are fine examples of the many pictograph sites in the Quetico by the native people, the Ojibwe. They are estimated to be 150 to 500 years old. Almost all are on cliff faces 2 to 6 feet above the water level and many times the artist would be using a canoe as the platform to work from. This group was on Darkwater Lake, 73 kilometers into this trip. Here is the link to two photos I took of this group.
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2154 ... t=outdoors
Of particular interest in the second photo along the bottom is the horned water beast with the canoes riding on top of it. I think this is kind of a warning of having to cross large open area of water ahead where the waves can really kick up.
Here is another link to some information about the Queticio pictographs.
http://www.queticofoundation.org/pictographs.html
And your local library may have a copy of the book "Magic on the Rocks" by Michael Furtman which describes all the known pictograph sites in the Boundary Waters / Quetico region.