Up beat, healthy, sports, outdoors thread

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This thread is to discuss, sports, up beat positive stuff, outdoors topics. I loved a person with Aspergers, all the weird stuff was/is dear to me. I don't think he is weird, either. That is insulting. End of that premis.

I love the outdoors. I love Chesapeake Bay Retrievers. I love horses. I love horseback riding. I want to buy a canoe and go to the Boundary Waters with my two dogs. I am in denial about Brett Favre (Green Bay Packers, yes I am a cheesehead) getting old and retiring. I am not religious or spiritual. I know a great deal about the Northwoods. You can see a picture of me 50 yr ago at northwoodsloreandmore.com. If you want to talk about anything remotely related to this stuff. Hop in!!

PS I hope I haven't accident'y hopped in on someone elses thread about their kidney stones again!! I apologize in advance if I have.

If I were to choose an outdoor sport beside the walking I do, it would be kayaking. I've only kayaked once with a tour guide, but I adored it.

Hi Glad to hear from you. I have never tried kayaking, but I know a lot of people who have. I am sure it is similar.

We had a 16 foot aluminum canoe when I was a kid. My sister and I canoed all over the place and we used it as a swimming toy. It wouldn't sink because the bows were hollow full of air, so we would submerge it and sit in it and paddle across the lake, thinking, we were fooling everybody, of course. Kids. It was sooo much fun. It does help to have a "I don't care if I fall in and get wet" attitude though.

Where do you live? USA? State? I am in Minnesota, so boundary waters are completely a possibility for me.

i would absolutely love to have a single scull and a small sailboat at my cottage. I could just go up for a week and row in the mornings, come in and eat, sail when the waters are too rough, row in the evenings, eat. it would be heaven for me, and i'd probably improve my sculling a lot.

What exactlyis a scull?? I'm from Minnesota USA. Never hear the term??

I LOVE being outdoors!

Tell me what you love about outdoors. What do you like to do?? What are your dreams about outdoors. I have a couple.

Today is a nice warm, sunny, little breeze, lovely day in Minnesota. Trees, budding, grass not long enough to mow, what little grass there is. I live in the country. My two Chesapeakes have been outdoors with me "helping" with raking, moving a little dirt (very little) by hand.

The Chesapeakes, of course every time I get a shovel full of dirt, they think if they help dig it will be even better. It is very amusing. If I could harness their ability to scatter dirt, it would amazing.

I am dreaming about getting a canoe and taking my two Chesapeakes on a canoe trip up by the Boundary Waters with Canada.

I was just researching the trip. It is sort of a bureaucratic nightmare to even get a place to put in on the Boundary Waters. The US Forest service wants $12 a day, and a couple other fees for doing a little canoing and camping. Not even the wilderness is free anymore. Oh, well, maybe we will practice on a lake around here. There are lots of lakes.

My plan is to get two platforms for the dogs to sit on in the front of the canoe while I paddle. Then, I am going to rig some sort of a ladder to hang over the side to get the dogs back in when they decide it is time to go retrieve something. This may take a little work to figure out the engineering part where you don't dump the canoe each time a dog takes off or wants back in.

All this has a point. I want to guide hunters in the fall. So, I thought this would be a fun way to do some more training with my dogs. I might start a fad, you never know.

The thing that I love best about the outdoors, is fishing. I love to fish. >==<>

a single rowing boat. sculling is when you've got two oars, sweeping is when you've got one big one. they've got single, double, quads and, in Europe, those crazy people, oct sculls (banned from international competition because they're dangerous). they've also got pairs, fours, and eights, those are sweep boats.

the problem with buying a single is that they're freaking expensive. if i want to buy a new one from Hudson or Fluidesign i'm going to fork out over $8,000. if i buy used it'll probably be at least $2000 if i go for a cheap one. my parents are thinking of buying two kayaks, but those do me no good because they won't help my rowing much because the technique is completely different and legs aren't involved in kayaking.

I'm used to paddling a canoe on smaller lakes, where the shoreline is never too far away. It is dangerous to think you can take a canoe onto a large lake like Michigan or Superior. The lakes I paddle on, the shorelines are visible at all times. I paddle a 17 ft aluminim canoe by myself quite easily. I just switch back and forth. If there are two people, the one in the back calls the commands and steers, sometimes using the paddle as a rudder.

I just bought a used aluminum canoe for $100. I throw it up on top my Suzuiki and go, where ever. I had a friend make a canoe from some mahogany boards. It was too funny, because it was gorgeous, but it took 8 strong men to move it. The whole idea o a canoe or kayak is mobility, portaging, light quick travel, etc.

Tell you the truth, my favorite sport with my dad was what we called "jump shooting". In Wis where I come from we have thee small creeks with huge swamps. In the fall, the person in the front has a shotgun and the person in the back quietly paddles. Sometimes when you round a bend in the creek, there are ducks or geese and they "jump" up and fly. the guy in the front shoots what he can.

then comes the dog. You have to have a dog in those marshes or you would never find your ducks/geese. It is all pretty crazy but fun. The dogs jumps out of the canoe and makes as many retrieves as necessary, and then you have to find a bog to get the dog up on to jump back in the canoe without tipping it over. It is all a very very wet deal no matter how you do it. Wet and cold. But extreme fun. If you like that sort of thing.

That is why I have Chesapeakes. They are the best at this sport.

thanks for explaining the scull. One learns something new every day. Sounds very Viking to me. I'm 1/4 Norweigan, so I guess I come by this wet/cold stuff naturally.

Oh, yesh, Beef, I'm a 1/4 Norweigan, but my grandfather was Scotch, came from Caledon Ontario. We're pretty rugged folks.

What kind of fishing do you like? I grew up on small lakes, walleye, musky, pan fish, perch, northern, some lake trout. We also had trout streams that flowed north to Lake Superior. Great fun. I like trout fishing the best.

PS If you are AS, rat, this is your cue to come back and tell me what kind of fishing you like, and where, with some detail. Then I can pick up from what you say and continue the conversation. I know, it is terribly inefficient, but that's what us NT's do. Especially, us women NT's.

Yeah I do and i'm into cycling, jogging sometimes, golf and alot of sports.

Im cricket mad n been playin cricket for 6 years mainly a bowler but i can bat a bit aswell.