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Our feeble attempt at camping this weekend began Thursday night after work.\u00a0 We pulled together most of the gear we would need for a BWCA camping trip in the fall.\u00a0 We were pretty tired, so we didn’t get finished with the packing, just got a decent start to the venture.\u00a0 Friday morning I helped Erin get the canoe on her car and threw what we had ready into her car as she left for work.\u00a0 I still had to pull together the rest of the gear hoping against hope that I wouldn’t forget anything.\u00a0 I finally got on the road about a half an hour later than usual, but I made it to school with a few minutes to spare.\u00a0 So to follow the hokey pokey theme Thursday night we put our right foot in and took our right foot out.\u00a0 Friday morning we put our right foot in and shook it all about.<\/p>\n
After work that day Erin and I met up at the Y-store and drove to Soudan where we dropped my car off at Erin’s grandparents house.\u00a0 We transferred the rest of the gear from my car to hers and headed to Ely.\u00a0 Mind you at this time of the year dusk is showing up earlier and earlier each day.\u00a0 We pulled into Ely and had to pick up some last minute things that we had forgot to pack for the trip and grab something for dinner.\u00a0 At this time we assessed how much time it’d take us to actually get to the Moose Lake entry point and decided we would be just putting into the water when the darkness would be settling in over the lake.\u00a0 We made the decision to hold off actually starting the trip till the next morning.\u00a0 We ended up staying the night in Ely where we watched the twins throw their game two against the Yankees away in the bottom of the 9th inning.\u00a0 The next morning we awoke to a blanket of snow on the ground and a pretty brisk wind whipping across the tree tops.\u00a0 We decided to push on and headed down the Fernberg Road to the Moose Lake entry point.\u00a0 As we approached the lake I was beginning to second guess our trip.\u00a0 There were some fairly decent waves rolling across the lake.\u00a0 Now if this had been a summer day it wouldn’t have been as big a deal, but since the temps were below freezing it added a whole new level of concern.<\/p>\n
We pushed on and loaded up our canoe and headed out in the waves.\u00a0 The wind was blowing in the same direction we were paddling, so we were making some pretty good time without much effort.\u00a0 Our concern was that if we had to paddle back against this same wind the next day it would make the 8 or so miles pretty tough.\u00a0 We paddled about a mile and decided it be smarter and safer to call the trip off.\u00a0 There’s no reason to force on when things could turn quickly for the worse.\u00a0 Truly we probably would have been fine, but it would have been a chilly wet trip.\u00a0 So back to the hokey theme, we started our trip Friday night, then stopped it not too much longer, only to start it the next morning and stop it again an hour or so after beginning.\u00a0 Lots of back and forth.<\/p>\n
Instead of camping we went to a tea shop in Ely, and then to a movie in Virginia.<\/p>\n
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