So i've posted quite a few pics in various trip reports about my travels around Slocan Lake. I really like the quality of calm lake shots but thats certainly not the only weather we get here. The thing is when its rough i'm not comfortably letting go of the paddle to take a pic and fiddle with getting the camera back in the box so i end up with mostly calm water shots . I need a helmet cam i guess.
I'd been paddling allot this summer in my area but all of a sudden i wasn't out much at all cause of throwing my back out picking up all the garbage and mess the bear made at my house. . Finally there was a little break in the weather and i had waited long enough so out into the sun i'm going.
Those darn forecasters
Well it wasn't raining yet!, ok who said that anyway?. It was getting foggy and rainy and just then i saw it "Moagyander". The twin dorsal beast who comes from the Okanagan via underground caves.
Ok, i'm getting dizzy, lets make camp. Up ahead is a good spot and its starting to rain harder and harder and i'm gettin hungry.
Found a nice spot just off the beach in the trees
Quickly set up my tarp and threw all my gear under it and then set up the hammock. Thats a WBBB with a Black MacCat Deluxe with shock cord in the tie outs and one of Opies RL's with Knotbone and Soft Shackles which i really like. Its a virgin WBBB, still has the original webbing (-;. Insulation ( not in the pic) is a yeti3 and JRB HRTQ which i love. Hammock does not come with Werner paddle.
My camera's not the greatest and the hammock pics look almost sunlit but there was no sun and this was a shot from in the hammock,
I put on some more clothes as things cooled down once it started raining allot. At least i was dry with my new paddling jacket and Kokatat Tempest pants,,,i like that when it cools down. There was one other fellow there just a little ways a way and when the rain took a break and i decided to cook on the beach instead of under my tarp he came and joined me. We both happened to have home made Indian food and spent the next hr or so talking about our trips to india. It was a good lunch and visit.
When i decided to break camp and start back for the village of Silverton the sky opened up a bit and i got one last shot as i paddled away.
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Originally Posted by grakker
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