Kekekabic Trail East BWCA Overnight Trek 

Thankee Jim. Got your card. Enjoy your trip.

I feel ya'. Just grab and go.......

Got no ticks. Thought I would. Pants and socks treated with permethrin. Going back soonish to finish but will go in from the West end. I know that end. Hope ya'll are good and well.

Glad to hear you’re enjoying the hammock.

Surprisingly I did not get one tick. I did soak my pants in permethrin pre-trip.

It always claims back for sure.

Haaaaa! I’ll bet. Did you guys do that whole trail in 3 days? Phil said it was rugged. Too right. Even Rocky looked tired.

@@shugemeryyes it was 2 1/2 days. It was very rough to do in a short amount of days. I would recommend taking at least 4 days to do the trail.

@@samanthastahl7752 WOW!!!! You guys tore it up!!

Well then I’m glad to bring you along. Whoooo Buddy))))

Except less snakes up here!

Lots of cairns but many hidden by the thick over-growth.

Haaa...it was just a bit of added drama. More of a mental challenge that day.

I thankee.~~~

So true on smelling or just admiring the roses! It is a WIN really.

I sat home and heard the fireworks overnight after the Grandstand show. Nice to be missed but I feel really good having done 29 consecutive years there for all 12 days. Maybe my favorite gig ever. Thanks for the good thought.

Whooooo Buddy)))))

Hey Cuz. I did enjoy the trip. Enjoyed getting home to my couch even more~~!!

Much better hang. Always more options ofter ya' poke around.

I was getting cranky from being up so early to drive 6 hours and hit the trail. Them there baby head rocks were getting to me!

Glad you like them! Whoooooo Buddy))))

Interesting walk for sure between lakes.

The wee stretches of clear trail I had were a joy!!!

Not much maintenance on those trails like the SHT. Not seeing all those rocks is a mental game. Tiring for the noggin'. It was a good trip in retrospect. Sounds like you and your wife felt the same.

Not easy but All Secured~~

Happy that you enjoyed it. Thankee.

I am leaning towards more canoe trips but grabbing the pack and just going is cheaper and somewhat easier at this point. Hey...keep enjoying your walks.

I seek it more and more.... Sometimes I wonder if solitude is an age thing.

Good on you for sharing theFF love!~~~

Y'elcome and thankee.

@@shugemery You're very welcome, my friend!

Oh, I just whined for the purpose of video. Really!!!!

The West side is not near as rocky as that dad-gum section I was on. Love hearing you did that so long back. I was hollering out quite often to announce myself to the bears,

I will maybe need to make the trips seem harder...haaa. Mentally rough trying to feel and focus on steps.

Mentally rough more than physically rough!

oh and hope you and yours are doing well these days.

I really don't mean to bore the shit out of yaz with my nonsense but having once been active outdoors and now not being able, your videos help fill a void in my life so thanks again. Each day I look more and more like a boiled shrimp. All orange and blotchy and bent over still further. I appreciate the extra effort it has to take to haul cameras and gear, talk to nuts like me, edit, post, and all that goes with this when you could probably enjoy not doing all of that even more maybe. So, yeah, thanks Shug.

All well. We are fortunate.

That description made me laugh!! Having shrimp tonight....I'll view it differently. Whoooooo Buddy)))))

I hope to as well~~!

At a certain age they become the best piece of gear.....

No rescue required!!! Thank goodness. The banjo>>>>

Man hope you see it!!!

Thankee and Whooooo Buddy))))

Hey Milan! So good.

@@shugemery Hello Shug , Can you help me .I have a DIY underquilt and I'm having a problem, it seems to blow me in there, even though I've made different settings. He used some suspension Triangle adapters, and it might help me with under-inflation between the hammock and the UQ

@@milanmicienka779 I would not put anything between UQ and hammock....can cause gaps. Mayne an under quilt protector would help. Make sure UQ is not cinched to tightly on the ends. Also make sure the primary suspension is tight enough. It should lift the hammock up in the air without you in the hammock. ru-vid.com/group/PLahaAdtfX9ZKzSYSBm3mBYSPGHjdyGqsL

@@shugemery Of course I have seen most of your videos before. So you didn't need to make the triangle, the 1st and 2nd suspensions are sufficient. I'll try to set it up even better. I was thinking about the UQ protector, but it's hard to find here, maybe I'll try to make it if I can find the right material. Thanks Milan

@@milanmicienka779 Underquilts do take some time to set up right sometimes. Avoid any gaps! Any good breathable fabric is good for an under quilt protector. You want it to breathe. ru-vid.com?search_query=underquilt+protector+diy

Finishing up my home paint and trim project and working on a control line airplane. Was at a wedding up north a few days. Also just sitting and staring off and mouth breathing with dead eyes~~~ haaaa. No, really.

Righto~

I see what you did there. Good to see you still out there as well~~~

I got no ticks on me but did treat my pants with permethrin.

I was hollering out from time to time to announce myself to the bears. Always hang my food at night away from my sleeping area in an Ursack. Try to keep a clean camp. I stay vigilant but not worried. Every time I've come across one the ran in the past. It is their neck of the woods and I just visit. I fear red squirrels more.

You all rode along inside my camera for sure I reckon.

They are on my channel. video list.....ru-vid.com/show-UC27nqmEhKzD9YHK1IFwG7qA Health is great but it was a tough trail. Was really tired from getting up at 3:20am and doing 6 hour drive and walking the trail. It was not an easy saunter for sure. Yeah....getting old and still trying to hike like a young 'un is tiring~~ Thankee.

I used Jungle Juice with DEET....soaked my clothes in permethrin. Never got a tick but expected too. No chiggers.

Black bears. I'd be a bit more on the alert in brown bear country.

Was at Merle Fest in 1996.....good time.

Yes it is what it just is. Jungle-ish~

Did not bite me much....just rested on me.

Tricky timing for an in and out walk sometimes with campsites few and far between.

Long drive from one end to the other on the Kekekabic. Good read here on it...sectionhiker.com/backpacking-the-kekekabic-trail-in-the-boundary-waters/ Another good one....www.friends-bwca.org/blog/backpacking-the-boundary-waters/ www.canoecountry.com/hike/

Whooooo Buddy and mucho appreciato~~!

Still fun in retrospect!

@@shugemery no doubt... Every trip is fun I agree.

Thankee! I learned something....

We really only have garter snakes here in Minnesota. Saw a couple getting out of my way quickly.

I'll look into it. Just got this camera and it is a bit different than the one I ruined dunking on my canoe trip. Bear with me.

Thankee.

I was using Jungle Juice...DEET in it. Also soaked my clothing in permethrin. And I use a Thermocell at camp when needed. Mainly for coffee from the hammock in the morning.

@@shugemery I was referring to what you hung either around your neck or from your hammock.

@@douglass69 I had a Thermocell on the ground next to my hammock for bugs. Don't recall anything around my neck other than my reading glasses.

Pretty sure they were mining ore.

I did not get any ticks. Treated my clothing with permethrin. May have helped.

I am vigilant. Also go into the woods without a chip on my shoulder. So far so good.

Not as good. Too sweet really. The blueberries kept my mood high.

sharp and rich I scratch that itch my life's a **itc just a titch horseshoes I pitch in a ditch I know not which witch. Got me in a stitch. Yo. What up?

Yes indeed. Wider. Still grown up a bit but easier in that trail kinda way.

Touché

I do enjoy filtering water....then drinking the water~~

Hey Jada. I was happy when I came across them on the trail. I'd asked a few folks whilst walking but no help. Makes me happy you were a bit re-assured. Heard you maybe gave them an earful!!! Haaa. Yes, get the inReach. My wife is really happy I tote one.

Now I want rhubarb pie.......!

You need to go and get in that hammock!!! It misses you too.

@@shugemery 😁😁

I really can't believe that somehowI got that old!...haaaaa Thanks for your Choppy bar offer and I appreciate it. Always hate putting folks through doing customs and parcels. I don't give out my address on You Tube. Folks who send me stuff somehow find my address out there in cyber-land.

Banjos and penny whistles follow me!!1

I was just paddling there about three weeks ago on a canoe solo. Missing Link to Snipe down to Cherokee to Frost and back. Loved it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_QV-Ltk9zDA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mvw5feca9AM.html

Sometimes the walk to my mailbox taxes me!

I am going to finish and see the middle but will go from west end for that. Then I can skip some of whatI did. Heard it is hilly in the middle.

@@shugemery hilly would be nice. I will be on the lookout for THAT video. Maybe I shall do the same - hike from the West to middle and back. Sounds enticing!

Well said!

I will until I'm all give out. Whoooooo Buddy)))))

Yessir....3 weeks.

My high school principal told me I was very average but full of blarney!

Hello Duke~ The long drive builds good anticipation!

It was! Those wildflowers always lift my mood. And those blueberries~

I can do what I can do!

All the BWCA hiking trails are not marked except with cairns and some tape. Makes it feel as remote as it is.

Totally glad I have it even though it costs. Playing it safer in old age. Smart.

Mucho appreciato~~!

Yessir....I hate a challenge! Haaaaa

It is kinda cool...after the fact~~

A lively and artistic bunch. Thank you.

Walk with vigilance and enjoy it all.

Glad to hear your noggin' is fairing well. Keep on electro-peddling to good health. Do you in Australia pay high taxes? Something has to pay pay for that nice "free" healthcare. Since I am/was an independent contractor for work I have to pay for my Health Insurance. Meg and I pay $678 USD a month apiece!!!! That is really for catastrophic events. Still a $10,000 deductible. No dental included. Burns a hole in the pocket. But when I turn 65 next May I will start receiving Medicare. That will ease my load and make this pensioner a wee bit joyful.

@@shugemery Well, everybody who pays Taxes pays a 1.5% Medicare Levy, and if by age 35 they still haven't got sucked into buying Private Health Insurance because they want to skip a waiting list for something which is Elective..., as a lot of Yuppies do...; then the Medicare Levy rises to 2.5 % of Taxable Income, annually. My daughter looked it up, and the numbers are, before the applying the Medicare Levy... The Dole, "Newstart" is $13,000 per year, and the Disability Pension they pay me (1/3 Nurses Back, 1/3 Ultralight Motorglider Test Pilot's Ankle, and 1/3 for the short-circuit - post 2 Head-Injuries..., which causes me to tell the truth in public places) is $25,662 per year (!). People earning less than $18,000 pay no Tax.., but there is a 10% Goods and Services Tax on everything but unprocessed foods, Staple Groceries, and Womens' Sanitary Products, Unemployed and Pensioners get a Concession Card to buy cheaper subsidised Pharmaceuticals..., Discount Public Transport, Free Registration on 1 vehicle but it has to have 3rd Party personal Insurance..., discount Rates and a few goodies... Then, in the Workforce... From $18,000 to $45,000 the Tax on everything over $18,200 is 19%. Those earning from $45,000 to $120,000 pay $5,092 plus 32.5% on everything over $45,000. Those earning $120,00/ to $180,000 pay $29,462, plus 37% of everything over $120,000... And the Tax on anyone earning over $180,000 is $51,667 plus 45% on everything over $180,000. I'm a total outlier. I got spat out of Nursing after lifting one fat old lady too many in 1986, and went down the Worker's Compensation track, which took 4 years and halfway through that I married a divorcee with 2 kids at foot, so when the Hospital's Insurance settled out of Court I got half their first offer from 3 & a half years earlier. My lesson in greed, they subtracted EVERYTHING which they had paid me in Workers' Comp, and Travel to Doctors, and all their Court Costs preparing to defend against me. I bought a hundred acres for an Ultralight Airstrip, a prefab Hangar, a Shed, a 3/4 finished VJ-24w Scratch-build Project, & a Lawn Locker (in which I still live.) We had added 2 Elective Homebirths to the Brady Bunch, and after completing the Aeroplane I spent 10 hours of taxiing and hops before 6 hours of careful Test Flying, I carved two Propellers and flew behind them, and overconfidence kicked in at 6 & 1/2 hours and I crashed trying a downwind takeoff in a paddock too short. And when I could walk again, when I went back to the Block to try and concrete rocks into a house(it's a Bassalt Traprock Ridge, Rocks I have a surplus of...) my missus acquired a new boyfriend and sued me for Custody - which took me 9 years on a typewriter on the Dole to sort out, self represented. In the final spasm she lost 4 Cases in 4 Jurisdictions in 4 weeks (Local, District, Federal Family, and State Children's Courts) and two weeks after the Court rescued my two kids, my eldest stepson hanged himself 6 weeks before he would have turned 21 - my kids were 11 & 12 - and suddenly people understood why I had not quit. On my 14th wedding anniversary I heard both my stepsons were in separate Psyche Hospitals. That was about 6 months after they put me on the Pension. However, I give away my best work, so in 1995 when I realised that a mate who got me to help him Aerotow Hang Gliders behind his 3-Axis Ultralight, 500 times, illegally, were kinda "World Leaders" after watching Bill Moyes tow a Hangie into the Runway, rescuscitating him with the Ambulance crew (I was still Registered as a General Nurse) but he only lived for 3 days...; and when I wrote an Operations Manual for Aerotow Launch Controllers, and gave it to Moyes, they declined to adopt my methods - in case him using Radio like we did was seen as a "Post Facto Admission Of Negligence... " ! So in 1997 I wrote to CASA sending ALL my (illegal) R&D Results of our 500 Aerotows, and my Crash Analysis of the dead Quentin, and my Teaching-Materials for the Lockout Index, suggesting they invite me to the next Coroners' Inquest, or make my method mandatory. They then made my method Mandatory Industry Standard for all Aerotowing Training Operations, after 5 months, in 1997 - and 6 months later Bill managed to kill the President of the Canowindra Hang Gliding Club - very experienced but still dead. So since 1998 my way is mandatory. It prevents some 10 Takeoff Crashes per year ever since, and at 1 Fatal, 2 high Quadriplegiacs, 3 Paraplegiacs in Wheelchairs, and 4 more fractured Yuppies who could afford a $25,000 Hang Glider with which to frighten themselves - all too broken to pay Tax for 6 months or 2 years. Centrelink told me they're delighted to pay me 25 grand to feed Swamp Wallabies and Kangaroos on my Endangered Species Sanctuary, because they sa my bloodyminded stubborn interference saves Oz $31,000,000 worth of Not dead and Not broken Hang Glider Pilot/Taxpayers per year, for 24 years. In my "Personal Aeroplanology " playlist there's one titled "Aerotow-Launcing Rogallo Hang Gliders ; Development & Implementation Of The Lockout Index...!" Which shows the photos and Magazine articles. Also, a month ago I posted "National Transport Museum ; Visiting My First Aeroplane !" And at the other end of that Playlist, 10 years earlier I posted a Slideshow Video of the same Plane, titled, "The 8-Hp, 1975, Red Baron Skycraft Scout ; World's 1st Legal Minimum Aircraft !" It took me for my first Solo, I was it's 3rd owner - from 1978 to '82, so I did nothing actually "pioneering" because it was obsolete when I got it. But I didn't crash it, and I'm the last person to have ever flown it - of which I'm inordinately proud. You could have a lot of fun in that playlist. A good combination is, first, "Armidale Airshow 17. The PhotoSniper's View!" to overview the World's Stormiest Airshow - and thus decide if you want to watch all the preceeding videos of the buildup, or merely the "Armidale Airshow 16. Wirraway, Harvard, Avenger...!" somehow I omitted the CAC Boomerang from that title. They all 4 took off into a Storm with a 500 ft Ceiling, to Display - a WW-2 Pacific Theatre Tribute, with Pyrotechnics on the ground..., which I PhotoSnipered in 35mm/300mm Telephoto , and then1 more Line-Astern low pass which I videoed, and as they landed the Avenger - the Rain began. I kid you not... It was Insane, but if they failed to display then the Ferry Flight Fees would not break-even on their attendance..., I guess (?)! So, yeah, my kids are now 32 & 33, my daughter moved back to my place in a 6-metre Yurt, before my Cancer was diagnosed, she's a Team Leader Traffic Controller at Roadworks, and arrived with a Kit-Home Flatpack to build before the Yurt falls to bits, my son owns his business, he's the Town Auto-Electrician and a Group Officer in the (Volunteer) Rural Fire Service, commanding 6 Brigades... So the Custody fight was well worth it. My stepsons' father left his kids with a woman he could not stand to live with, and I was not goanna do that. So, long answer. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe, ;-p Ciao !

@@WarblesOnALot You really do give the most complete answer...and then some! I'll stick to flying my control line planes. If I crash only my psyche gets hurt.

Crowded I bet it was on SHT......

Sounds real nice~~~

They were mental miles from a hard focus on the walk. Fun in retrospect.

It'll be a great solo for you. Hoping you already solo and like your own company. What trail are you hiking? EARLY~~~~

Solo hiking is my favourite thing in the world. There's a magical, meditative element that regenerates the soul. I haven't yet found the limit of how long I can enjoy being by myself, but this might test it. It's the Australian Alps Walking Track. I might be the first person to hike it in a hammock. Those blueberries look mighty tasty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Alps_Walking_Track

Marty made good stuff. Never met him but heard he was a real good feller.