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Re: What is your favorite wilderness day trip?
Posted By: Randy Knauff In Response To: What is your favorite wilderness day trip? (Nick Schade)
Date: Tuesday, 2 February 1999, at 4:48 a.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.> For example:
> Some of the Boston Harbor Islands are amazingly separated from the city of
> Boston. If you drive out the tip of Hull and put in at Hull Gut, a short
> paddle will take you out to some islands which could be in Maine for all
> you can tell without looking west towards the city.> Please include enough information so other people can see if your favorite
> is as nice as you say.I live right outside Anchorage, Alaska and there is lots of wilderness (from my house to the Canadian border is 600 miles with only one road to cross.) Our ocean paddling on a day trip may include sea caves, glacier and snow capped peaks, floating ice bergs, sea lion haulouts, lots of bird life, cliffs and occasional orcas and humpbacks. But one of my favorite paddles is on a small lake off the highway to Kenai. Watson Lake is only a few acres large but leads into marshy wetlands with lots of ponds and interconnecting waterways. They are so narrow and thick with plant life, you paddle on the weeds and then slip over shallow, clear sandy-bottomed areas. Bird life is abundant and occationally you come upon a moose and calf feeding. In the fall the colors are beautiful and skim ice lines the shore, making soft music as it breaks from the kayak bow wave. Few people seem to come in here. The swans often congregate here before migrating. Quiet and peacful, a wonderful wayto spend the day.
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