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Re: We need the stories.....
dnjacobson79
07/25/09 #6700
Trip Report for Up & Down Lake Ross
Easy trip from Bellingham, doable in one day with some motivation. We encountered a strong head wind in both directions and the motto for the conditions was “what are the chances”. Trip helps having a young twenty-year-old slalom team member in the back of the boat being the motor, but we both crashed at the end of the day with about ten miles to go. We were trying to break the paddle into 90 minutes intervals, looking back on it we pushed too hard at the start and paid for it at the end. An amazing lake and awesome views, warm water (really!), and I’m already planning on going back this fall for a camping trip on Cat Island. Trip is about 45 miles of paddling, the dirt road from Hope took about an hour and the faster you go the smoother the bumps are.
Lessons learned from the trip:
- Don’t tell the Canadian Border Guard “I wish” when they ask you if you have $10,000 cash on you at the Sumas crossing at 5AM in the morning, they’ll make it clear “that’s not the correct answer”.
- Don’t hesitate when the US Boarder Agent asks if you have fresh fruit; hesitation leads to total car searches.
- Don’t tell the park ranger you’re not camping on the lake and instead doing an up & back in one day, therefore you don’t need a permit, here again our law enforcement friends didn’t believe us.
Happy paddling with a week of July to go – I’m interested to hear how Morris and Kirk went…
