HC14, Sept 2017, Narfi

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Narfi

Very nice work. Love the red finish on your HC14. Now you've got me wondering how the red / white paint scheme would look on the AD16...

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Was hoping for a sunny day, but we went anyways. Had started to sprinkle when we were headed in but it was a fun first day of the year in the water. I've been told the main lake is open, but we couldn't get to it yet.
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Baseball hat, no gloves, hoodie not pulled up, maybe 40f......................must be an Alaska kid :lol:

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First day out in the year. Wonderful. Seasons really mean something in Alaska! :D
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And he does not even look cold!!!! Jeff

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350lbs of dad and kid arent enough to feel stable with a terrified 85lb dog. .......
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You can see the expression on his face.

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Not so sure that was a happy face on your puppy 8O
Took the wifes dog with us halibut fishing the other day. He got seasick...........talk about a ripe smell :help:

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Yeah, that face is saying "when I touch ground I am bolting!!"
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Re: HC14, Sept 2017, Narfi

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Update to say 3 years later the canoe still works great even if it is heavy :)
(this is a cross post from our FS17 thread as we used both boats on our camping trip)


We went camping a couple of nights last weekend but I never got around to posting pictures, here they are.

We headed out Friday around 3. Bought burgers to go at the food truck and launched by 3.30
Headed up the lake about 45 minutes and pulled off just before the sandbar at the head of the lake and put on the old nasty prop.
Then we braved the channel up into the little lake..... made it part way before running aground and I jumped out and walked it a hundred feet or so through the shallowest part then we carefully motored up the rest of the way into the little lake. (Never did hit the prop I had it up pretty high and shut down the instant the boat hit sand) the channel is about 8-10ft wide right against the cliff, but the glaciel silt makes it impossible to differentiate from the huge sandbar it cuts through. During high water earlier in the summer its deeper but it was about 2ft average and 3-6 inches over the sandbar, barely up to my ankles.

Once in the lake it got back to 100ft deep or deeper though with cliffs straight up all around, the pictures font do it justice on just how massive and awsome it looks.

We camped at the mouth of a river/creek below a huge waterfall we hiked upto on Saturday, about an hour hike up the bear trails to get there. Pretty rough going and had to cross the creek a couple times, huge borders make it a bit scarry. Brutus doesn't know how to swim and wouldn't cross.... i had to drag/throw him across while knee deep in the middle of the rapids :p

We took landons canoe and every imaginable luxury. Camp chairs, blow up mattresses two tents, though landon and brutus got cold and crawled in with us the second night. And totes and totes of food and spare clothes for landon..... he goes through clothes at an impossible rate. ("OK you are dry now, these are your pj's, dont get them wet....." turn around 30 seconds later he is chest deep in the lake............)

We motored around the lake enjoying the scenery Saturday night just looking up at all of God's beauty in the cliffs and waterfalls, could even see part of a glacier up between a couple of mountain peaks.

The canoe got lots of use, we sent landon out with it to collect firewood multiple times and the creek we were at was silly, so over to a smaller creek to get drinking water as well. I went up the lake a bit with him on Saturday and we went into some of the little hollows/caves at the base of some of the cliffs, one was big enough we could turn the canoe around in, one had a crevice going back up at an angle further than we could see, landon wanted to explore it but we didn't have a flashlight with us.

All in all a great weekend for both of our bateau boats :)

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