cannoes?

[Billnew]

Anyone go cannoeing?
I just got one this year.
My daughters loved it last year.
I have been 3 times.

 

[HunterJon]

Yeah canoeing is tons of fun, I usually do it as part of another activity I am participating in (duck hunting, fishing). But just going for the sake of going is still a blast.

 

[Beau]

Canoeing is great, I go a couple times each year with my Boy scout troop, in fact we just went last weekend. There's a place called Mohican Wilderness, its on the Mohican river in Ohio, and we get to canoe ten miles, unless weather causes the water to be too high, in which case we canoe the five miler. A friend and I did the ten miler in 1 hour and 39 minutes for the race. Next year we plan on getting first place though.

 

[Jmac]

I used to go canoeing a lot years ago but after I got married my wife was too sacred of tipping over and would not go so I just quit. My favorite trips were two separate trips through the Okeefenokee swamp in Southern Georgia. They were both week long trips around 60 miles each through some of the most beautiful landscape I've ever seen.

I now have two kayaks and my daughter and I go on day trips pretty often and we are going on a week long trip to the Croatan National Forest the first week of June. < can't wait>

 

[AlaskanDan]

Canoeing trips in lakes and down rivers with the occasional white water is a blast, my dad has seemed to have perfected canoing (or it seems to me), so it makes for some very fun trips.

 

[jhollas]

I'm more of a Kayaking man myself, but I wouldn't say no to a quick canoe every once in a while!
On the competition side of things, I don't suppose any of you have heard of the Devizes to Westminster Canoe and Kayak Marathon?

 

[mojorising]

Anyone go cannoeing?
I just got one this year.
My daughters loved it last year.
I have been 3 times.

Yep, they are fun with the kids, but I'm into whitewater. You ever been rafting?
What a rush!
mojo

 

[draper]

been rafting once, hoping to go again when we go to BC this summer.

As for canoeing, I tried it last year, I liked it.

Funy story, the weekend i discovered canoeing I did it a lot that weekend..it was a long weekend, so I was up north for quite a few days and was driving home with some extended family on Wednesday cuz I had a baseball game that night.

So I wake on Wednesday and my whole upper body is just killing and I have no clue why...so then I went down to the water and I saw the canoe, and I'm like, 'Ahhhhhhh.'

 

[fire^retardent*]

been rafting once, hoping to go again when we go to BC this summer.

As for canoeing, I tried it last year, I liked it.

Funy story, the weekend i discovered canoeing I did it a lot that weekend..it was a long weekend, so I was up north for quite a few days and was driving home with some extended family on Wednesday cuz I had a baseball game that night.

So I wake on Wednesday and my whole upper body is just killing and I have no clue why...so then I went down to the water and I saw the canoe, and I'm like, 'Ahhhhhhh.'

Ha, Ha, Ha!!!! I do that kind of stuff all the time! How'd that get here? When did I do that? Why is that like that? ... Ahhhhh! ... I guess it's cause I'm weird! ... ya, that it!
~C@E

 

[bigsierra]

Canoing is awesome. I used to bowfish from a canoe with pontoons hooked up for stability. I saw a canoe the other day that could be folded up and became totally flat.

 

[D-Lisch]

I've gone cannoing on my friend's lake and out in the sound at camp. But never on a river..... psssh, I would totally go!

 

[newlite]

two weeks ago we went to kenora. we used our unsinkable canoe. it was fun. first time in a couple years its moved actually.

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

I grew up canoeing. My brother in law and his friend organize a trip every year. We started with about 10 people now we have about 75 that go. We canoe rivers in Michigan. I only get to go when I have the time to travel all the way back there now.

I've done class 3 rapids...that's about as crazy as I've been.

 

[applepowerpc]

Class III rapids in a canoe?!?? You must do some serious steering.

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

Heh, it wasn't like a half mile of rapids...most of the trip was easy. There were a few spots where we thought we may have made a mistake on our choice of river leg.

 

[Sylvester]

dont go on chennoes if there r big crocs in the water i've heard of people atacked by crocs when thay where on chennoes.

 

[Glenn316]

The men's group from our church went canoing on the Pine river (in Michigan) this past saturday. That was fun trip. A lot faster river than the Huron near where I live.

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

The men's group from our church went canoing on the Pine river (in Michigan) this past saturday. That was fun trip. A lot faster river than the Huron near where I live.

Tell ya what...the Muskegon River was a real yawn. The rifle is a decent river, the Au Sable is good to relax on...calm but very scenic.

I think the most fun we had was on the Platte (Michigan, not Colorado) There's a Platte river here in Colorado that's more famous as gold medal trout waters. The Michigan Platte is winding, somewhat fast and has obstacles (fallen trees etc.) It was a real challenge with a ton of steering and no portage. It empties into Lake Michigan which provides an awesome end to the trip. We took the canoes out into the waves...what a riot.

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

dont go on chennoes if there r big crocs in the water i've heard of people atacked by crocs when thay where on chennoes.

Not many crocs where I canoe. Muskies might pose a problem if they're hungry enough.

(Not me in pic)

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

...or maybe killer catfish