[HN Gopher] 43-year-old Family Canoe Trip
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43-year-old Family Canoe Trip
Author : cameron_b
Score : 89 points
Date : 2025-03-18 12:06 UTC (4 days ago)
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| keithwhor wrote:
| Great read. I think connecting with nature while you're young is
| great -- when you're older, even better. Would love to read more
| of these.
| snickerer wrote:
| This is beautiful.
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| I would really like to know how his father's trip influenced the
| author's life. He mentions this several times, but does not
| explain.
| pge wrote:
| If you watch the video at the end of the article, you may get a
| better sense of it
| noduerme wrote:
| Portland callin. Great article. My friend has canoed the entire
| Willammette River a few times, solo and with friends, and loves
| it... he makes it almost sound like a Huck Finn adventure,
| stopping in at weird private landings, dive bars, river parties,
| sleeping in the parks, making friends with strangers. Personally,
| I'd be terrified to embark on a trip like this. I wish I had the
| confidence that I would be able to survive a bad day or two of
| food poisoning with nowhere to go.
| nefrix wrote:
| Nice story. I wish I were closer to the area so I could explore
| its nature.
|
| Paddling is one of the activities that makes me feel more present
| --no time for scrolling while slowly moving through the water.
| For the last 10 years, I've gone once or twice a year to the
| Danube swamps to disconnect and recharge. We're lucky there
| aren't any crocodiles!"
| timonoko wrote:
| I traveled from the other side of the world just to make
| various trips on the Inside passage.
|
| Verdict: Like Norway coast, but without services and
| Norwegians, who can be little bit tight-ass on their property
| rights.
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| https://youtu.be/1DDcX9_te5I?si=XvLbijrZAZE-XHyF
| plantain wrote:
| Doesn't Norway have the right to roam?
| defrost wrote:
| Sure, we couldn't stop it if we wanted to.
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| It does tend to move in lockstep with the other countries
| on the Eurasian Plate though, and its rate of roaming peaks
| at 14mm or so a year.
| timonoko wrote:
| Nordic Countries always had it, because various nomadic
| lifestyles. But when it was written to law, Norwegians and
| Sweden invented 3 days limit on camping. Only purpose of
| this was to decimate the indigenous Sami-culture.
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| Finland does not have such limits, only vague statements of
| permanent settlements.
| keizo wrote:
| cool to see paddling of any kind on hacker news. The short doc
| video was a great watch.
| 6stringmerc wrote:
| Also relevant is Henry David Thoreau's trip with his brother:
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Week_on_the_Concord_and_Me...
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| It was very pleasant jail reading. In truth it's about 30% trip
| diary and 70% musings on the nature of life, friendships,
| religion, and language.
| eulgro wrote:
| What selection of books do they have in jail?
| marktl wrote:
| Ben, the authors brother, is a friend of mine. Ben happens to be
| a very successful and capable software engineer.
| pfd1986 wrote:
| Very nice. The story sounds very familiar to me, maybe the movie
| was part of Banff film festival?
| yimby2001 wrote:
| I've done a lot of canoeing. It doesn't even seem possible that
| you could canoe in the Pacific Ocean for any amount of time
| without being swamped.
| pge wrote:
| That part of the Pacific is very sheltered by islands so it is
| often fairly calm. The First Nations people have hunted and
| traveled in canoes there for many generations (unlike the Inuit
| on the eastern arctic and in Greenland that used sealed kayaks
| where the water was rougher).
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