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Re: What is your favorite wilderness day trip?
Posted By: Wes Boyd In Response To: What is your favorite wilderness day trip? (Nick Schade)
Date: Monday, 1 February 1999, at 8:19 p.m.
> Any body have a favorite "wilderness day trip" they would like
> to recommend? I will define a wilderness day trip as a place you can get
> to within an hour or so of home and have a nice paddle that gets you to a
> place which feels well removed from "civilization", and then get
> back home in the same day. I'll leave it to you to define how much
> civilization you can tolerate and still feel you have escaped.It's not actually what I would call wilderness, although it is sort of wild in spots -- but best of all, it's ten minutes from home, my normal after- work get out and paddle area -- Lake Hudson State Recreation Area, in southern Michigan not far north of the Ohio border. Since I'm mostly an inland lakes paddler, I can easily get my fill of jet-skis -- but not here; the entire 600-acre lake is "no wake". As a result, I was out there almost 60 times last summer, and am eagerly awaiting thawing -- it's a hangout for the ice fishermen right now.
The nice thing about a place like that is that you can get familiar with it, to know where the herons hang out and where their territories are (they are very territorial), to watch the changes from day to day, from week to week, or just kick back on the quiet, marshy little bay at one end of the lake and watch the sun set and the show that nature is putting on . . . which makes me yearn for warmer weather. I did manage to get out in the kayak for the first time in six weeks yesterday, not on Lake Hudson, but on a mile-long channel between two nearby lakes that did have a mile of open water.
While there may be wilder places, this one keeps me fresh.
There's more about this place on my website:
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