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IR hacky [relocated from Itineraries]

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Nick posted this to the itineraries section of the Trip Reports forum:
Plan on getting dropped of at Chippewa Harbor, eventually paddling over to Malone Bay. Once I complete that paddle, I will have circumnavigated the island and will have hiked every trail on the island, some more than once. It's only taken me 40 years!
Which is spectacular! What I want to know from Nick is: once you've been every place, are you going to start over? And if so, where?
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Post by hooky »

And how many trips over that 40 years did it take to accomplish the feat?

Bravo, Nick!
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I've probably been there 20+ times. I'd have to go back through my journals to get an exact count. All first boats except for one trip in July with my daughter and post-Labor Day in 2016 with my wife.

Once I've finished that last 10 miles, I'll start on another ISRO bucket list:

First and foremost, and this will probably never happen, be with John Henegan when he catches a fish. He's claimed to have caught fish, but I've never seen him catch one.

Spend a week or so just exploring Tobin Harbor from three mile to Blake Point while base camping a Merrit Lane Campground.

See and photograph the Northern Lights.

Meet more of the finest people in the world while in ISRO.
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Post by Ingo »

Nick, have you done all the portages?
22: BI-PC-BI-RH, 21: RH-ML-DF-MB-DF, 18: MC-PC-BI-DB-RH-DF, 17: WI-IM-SB-FL-WC, 16: RH-CI-TI-RH, 14: BI-ML-CI-CH-MB, 13: RH-PI, 12: MC-CB-HL-TH, 11: WC-HC-WC, 09: MC-BI-DN-RH, 05: MI-CI-MB-DF-RH-TM-RH, 02: MC-LR-WL-CH, 01: BI-DB-RH, 79: worked RH
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Post by Nick »

Some...but, portages are portages, trails are trails. :) Haven't done the Tobin Harbor to Duncan Bay or the Lake Richie/Chippewa Harbor to Lake Siskiwit ones.
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