Our adventure last weekend was canoeing on the Lynx Loop Canoe Trail System in the Nancy Lake State Rec Area about 90 minutes north of Anchorage. It was so much fun! I love it here! We drove Larry's RV up on Friday night, had tin foil dinners that night and then canoed all day Saturday. The trail system has about 14 lakes (we lost count after a while!) and you canoe across the lake and then pick up the canoe and hike with it to the next lake and do it over and over again! Its called portaging between the lakes. We paddled pretty quickly across the first few lakes, but then we stopped and ate lunch in the canoes in the middle of one of the lakes and after that we were super laid back. We went a lot slower after that, just drifting along. It was so nice and relaxing, maybe because I just sat there most of the time while Cohan paddled! It was beautiful out and sunny for most of the time, but when we had about three lakes left it started raining! It sprinkled at first while we were out in the lake, but it really started pouring while we were portaging between lakes. It was the coolest thing, and I really wish I had a picture of it! We carried the canoes over our heads, so the rain was hitting the top of the canoe and the bottom half of us got soaked! Hiking through the rain with a canoe in Alaska! It was awesome! When we got to the end of the loop we all jumped in a swam and played!
All the strong girls! My shoulders were so sore on Sunday!
Our adventure last weekend was canoeing on the Lynx Loop Canoe Trail System in the Nancy Lake State Rec Area about 90 minutes north of Anchorage. It was so much fun! I love it here! We drove Larry's RV up on Friday night, had tin foil dinners that night and then canoed all day Saturday. The trail system has about 14 lakes (we lost count after a while!) and you canoe across the lake and then pick up the canoe and hike with it to the next lake and do it over and over again! Its called portaging between the lakes. We paddled pretty quickly across the first few lakes, but then we stopped and ate lunch in the canoes in the middle of one of the lakes and after that we were super laid back. We went a lot slower after that, just drifting along. It was so nice and relaxing, maybe because I just sat there most of the time while Cohan paddled! It was beautiful out and sunny for most of the time, but when we had about three lakes left it started raining! It sprinkled at first while we were out in the lake, but it really started pouring while we were portaging between lakes. It was the coolest thing, and I really wish I had a picture of it! We carried the canoes over our heads, so the rain was hitting the top of the canoe and the bottom half of us got soaked! Hiking through the rain with a canoe in Alaska! It was awesome! When we got to the end of the loop we all jumped in a swam and played!
We tried to do a lift on the canoe - it obviously didn't work that well!
On one of the portages I was getting ready to pull the canoe back onto the water and I stepped out into the water - my foot sunk completely up to my hip! Cohan had to come pull me out. I was trying to keep my flip flop on, but the suction was holding onto my flip flop, so I had to slide my foot out of the flip flop so Cohan could pull me out and the rest of the time I had to portage between the lakes with just one flip flop.
All the strong girls! My shoulders were so sore on Sunday!
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