MikeT
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Check out Paul Conklin's great early season Cranberry trip report:
http://www.paddling.net/message/showThread.html?fid=chat&tid=1269702
A report of my Saturday (April 10th) day paddle on Cranberry Lake follows:
Saturday’s internet weather report was for “snow mist”, air temps in the low 30’s and lots of wind. And by the time I arrived at the Cranberry Lake village swimming beach to put in, there appeared to be lots more wind. Played hide and seek with the wind gusts all the way down to the west end of Joe Indian Island.
Learned long ago that you can’t fight the wind. Hopefully using careful trip planning and terrain features, you can still have a good time on a windy day on Cranberry. And when wind gusts stop the boat dead; nothing to do but relax, sit tight and wait till that particular wind gust moves on.
Got back to the put-in in the early afternoon. The most exciting time of the day proved to be putting the boat back on my vehicle alone. I was struggling to get the first tie down strap secured, when I realized that I could just wait until the wind died down a bit. Must have presented puzzling sight to the cars driving by: an old person in a drysuit, standing atop a step stool, hugging a 16 ft kayak while gazing out on the lake.
After thirty plus years of messing around in boats on Cranberry Lake, I am still amazed at the lake’s capacity to surprise, reward and sometimes punish this old paddler.
As an aside, my best guess from previous year’s measurements is that current Cranberry water temps are still in the 30’s.
Mike
http://www.paddling.net/message/showThread.html?fid=chat&tid=1269702
A report of my Saturday (April 10th) day paddle on Cranberry Lake follows:
Saturday’s internet weather report was for “snow mist”, air temps in the low 30’s and lots of wind. And by the time I arrived at the Cranberry Lake village swimming beach to put in, there appeared to be lots more wind. Played hide and seek with the wind gusts all the way down to the west end of Joe Indian Island.
Learned long ago that you can’t fight the wind. Hopefully using careful trip planning and terrain features, you can still have a good time on a windy day on Cranberry. And when wind gusts stop the boat dead; nothing to do but relax, sit tight and wait till that particular wind gust moves on.
Got back to the put-in in the early afternoon. The most exciting time of the day proved to be putting the boat back on my vehicle alone. I was struggling to get the first tie down strap secured, when I realized that I could just wait until the wind died down a bit. Must have presented puzzling sight to the cars driving by: an old person in a drysuit, standing atop a step stool, hugging a 16 ft kayak while gazing out on the lake.
After thirty plus years of messing around in boats on Cranberry Lake, I am still amazed at the lake’s capacity to surprise, reward and sometimes punish this old paddler.
As an aside, my best guess from previous year’s measurements is that current Cranberry water temps are still in the 30’s.
Mike
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Air temps in low 40's, water temp app 57F...no emersion for me this time...hope to go out again this weekend. Have fun!
