Canoe Camp Trip

When I was 19 I went on a weekend camping and canoeing trip down the Au Sable. It was an all girl's trip and the only help we got outside of our group was from Gott's Canoe Livery run by my Uncle Jerry. He set us up with some canoes and a map, which was all I thought we'ld need. I didn't think much of the fact that it was an all girls trip because I had always done trips like this, but apparently other girls don't necessarily go for the whole outdoors thing. We had lots of adventures that weekend. We had cans of spaghettios but no one remembered the can opener. I don't know about you but cold spaghettios with metal shards really does hit the spot after a day of canoeing in the pooring rain. I figured out how to open it with a knife. We thought we could just get wood from "the wilderness" not considering that it might rain cats and dogs our first day (it's funny that I had a firelog in my car). There was one point when a we missed our camp spot and had to walk the canoes upstream for about 1/2 a mile. One of the girls jumped in the canoe and refused to help. It's amazing how much water you can get into a canoe when you really want to. Little note: that same girl also opened my pack to get something out and left it open during the worst rain of the whole trip...trying to dry clothes on the water is really really fun! ~B