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MajickMuffin
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Canoe Catastrophe, Experience, Survival Mode, Manistee River
#21809844 - 06/15/15 09:16 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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So here we are at this landing on the Manistee River, Michigan. 4 people, 1 dog, 1 boat, and 1 canoe. Me and my cousin are going to use the canoe, while my Uncle and his friend are going to use his boat, which has a motor on it. So here we are at the landing, gearing up our canoe and boat, loads of gear, bags, coolers. We have the dog on our canoe. Now, me and my cousin havent had too much experience on a canoe, weve done this river 2 years ago, so we are a bit rusty, we dont even remember how the mechanics of controlling and maneuvering a canoe work. So, its push off time, My Uncle and his friend push me and my cousin, and dog, off. Me and him are headin down the river and we have no speed, we see this extremely strong current that pushes toward shore, into a log and branches. We have no time to figure out how a canoe works, so this current sucks us in, and you know, we try to do what we can to get out of it, but we have no speed. Were heading toward the log and we see what is going to happen. My cousin says "were going to flip" I says "Fuck" The branch hits the dog and the log hits the back end of the canoe, by the way im up front, it flips. All three of us get flung into the water. Our gear, bags, boots, cooler, water, flipped canoe floating down the river. I cant see my cousin because hes underwater at first and on the other side of the canoe, toward shore more. The dog is next to me in panic mode. We are in this strong current now pulling us toward this giant branch system which is above And under water. The current is sucking under and into this branch system. So I grab this god damn dog (a golden doodle, about half my weight) and I grab one of the branches thats pertruding out of the water, and plant my foot under water on one of the branches. So im here, in a jam, I cant move, my only choice is to sit here and wait it out until my Uncle and his friend come around to see whats happening. Note, my Uncle and his friend are just getting their motor started and at this time from a distance just see whats happening. My cousin is on the same branch system, closer to shore, hanging on, hes able to move and get up.
Im sitting here in this position, kneck deep in a current, with a fucking dog in my arm, for about 15-20 minutes before my cousin is able to come up on the other side, break a path through the branches, and I fish the dog through to him and out the other side. If I were to let this dog go, it would get sucked under and caught on the under water branches, and drown. If I were to let go, same would happen to me.
After I fish the dog through I sit here for a few minutes, and work my way up on the this log which had all the branches on it, and I climb up this log and onto shore. Everyone is safe, without injury other than minor bruises and cuts. Now, its damage control, reconisance, gathering all of our packs, bags, boots, gear. Most of our stuff was caught about 50ft up the river on another branch/ log system. We lost all together, about 300$ worth of items, including my phone, shoes. My cousins prescription glasses. Everything was soaked that was in our canoe. Trash bags of gear, cloths, sleeping bags, soaked.
We gather everything, pack back up, and head out again, after some time. Im here shivering before we take off, because I lost about all of my body heat with that current sucking it all out of me for 15-20 minutes. So we take off again, and me and my cousin get the hang of it, for the next three days we head out for a new camp site and to go home, no other problems. We were able to get the hang of it, understand and re learn the mechanics. There were treacherous areas, close calls with other boaters and such, but we busted that shit, we did good.
Panic mode Vs Survival mode. Imagine how you, or your family would act in this situation, they will either panic ("heeeeeeeeeeelppp meeeeeeeeeee") or they will survive, be aware, be silent, and just fucking bust ass and do what you need to do to fucking save yourself and others if possible. Me and my cousins went into pure survival mode, we get shit done, and do what we got to do.
Panic will kill you, If i were to panic in this situation, I would have been sucked under this branches and drowned, and so would the dog. But being experienced with psychedelics, it was a rush that was like an extreme drug. It wasnt fun, but holy fuck, it was exhilerating.
The rest of the trip, we set up camp about 1h up the river, stayed a night, next day we go down the river about 1h, set up camp, next day we head out about 1h 30m and were at Red Bridge, time to go home. We went from beginner canoers to Novice. All of us had good spirits the whole trip, even though it was rough, wet, and the weather wasnt wonderful. We had a great time, and learned a whole lot. My Uncle and his friend werent mad, they did what they needed to do aswell to get us out of the situation, they also went into survival mode, not panic.
It was a taste of rough. And we learned very well from it. Ive never in my life been sent into survival mode, but shit, me and my cousin did very well. You could give us some medals.
Nobody, no other boaters, or canoers passed by at that whole incident, nobody but us 4 experienced what was going on.
Wear your life jackets, they make you into a bobber, there is no room or space for panic, if you panic, you will likely die in that situation.
And thats my story, thats my weekend trip.
  
The only thiing that stayed dry in my bag was my rolled up cigarretes, I dont know how that is possible. Not one drop of water on them, while everything else was soaked to the core. And I enjoyed them bitches.
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Re: Canoe Catastrophe, Experience, Survival Mode, Manistee River [Re: MajickMuffin]
#21809928 - 06/15/15 09:42 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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One of those trips you never forget
Thank you for sharing your weekend. Good read
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whitelights
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Re: Canoe Catastrophe, Experience, Survival Mode, Manistee River [Re: rudeboi]
#21810015 - 06/15/15 10:08 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cant stress that enough. If you panic you will die.
-------------------- its that bitter-sweet-sour, electric-smooth-twang. everything you ever have, are. or will feel along with every emotion, joy, hate, love, fear or aspiration burning down your nerves and into the fabric of your place in this existence at ten thousand degrees above and below zero will you find yourself wondering if you've been dead or alive this whole time. being born over and over only to die over and over hoping the wheel stops in the same place it started when you spun it, and when it finally does and you can step back and take a nice deep breath you realize how beautiful life is, remember, wake up to the most beautiful day of your life every single day, its just the way.
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MajickMuffin
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Re: Canoe Catastrophe, Experience, Survival Mode, Manistee River [Re: whitelights]
#21811912 - 06/15/15 06:30 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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rudeboi said: One of those trips you never forget
Thank you for sharing your weekend. Good read
Yea, none of us will ever forget that. That experienced will be engraved in my memory for the rest of my life. Thats the first time ive ever been put into survival mode. My next mushroom trip I know ima be trippin on them thoughts, in a good way.
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whitelights said: Cant stress that enough. If you panic you will die.
Me and my cousin were jokin the next night, we were like, anyone else (most people) in that situation would be panicing bein like "Heeeeeelpp meeeeee" screeching for someone else to help them, flailing their arms and shit.
We were crackin up.
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Re: Canoe Catastrophe, Experience, Survival Mode, Manistee River [Re: MajickMuffin]
#21812764 - 06/15/15 10:18 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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ive spent a decent amount of time in the mountains/woods and quickly learned not only my place in this world, but also to be very careful who you bring along with you into those scenarios. they could be liabilities if they cant keep up with you especially if something goes south.
one time camping up in the mountains, i was high on mda,mdma and really good lsd about 300 mics, about 20 minutes to dark i cut my big toe so bad every time my heart beat blood spurt out 2 feet, so when i saw that i instantly grabbed it and held it hut and cut blood flow off to my toe and said im bleeding to my buddy in front of me and he instantly ripped a peice of his sleeve off and i tied it around and the bleeding mostly stopped, we got back to camp put some natural balm from some tree thats used for that his girlfriend had and stayed the night packe dup and i hiked out without one shoe on, a couple hours out and 4 hours home, never went to hospital.
the weird part is i was the calmest and most collected, and also the least experienced with psychadelics of the group, altohugh i am very experienced with them. if i would have paniced i would have died in that situation. i held myself together as bad as it was. and thank god my friend did and ripped a peice off his shirt. also never felt any pain from it at all and it healed up fine.
-------------------- its that bitter-sweet-sour, electric-smooth-twang. everything you ever have, are. or will feel along with every emotion, joy, hate, love, fear or aspiration burning down your nerves and into the fabric of your place in this existence at ten thousand degrees above and below zero will you find yourself wondering if you've been dead or alive this whole time. being born over and over only to die over and over hoping the wheel stops in the same place it started when you spun it, and when it finally does and you can step back and take a nice deep breath you realize how beautiful life is, remember, wake up to the most beautiful day of your life every single day, its just the way.
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Re: Canoe Catastrophe, Experience, Survival Mode, Manistee River [Re: whitelights]
#21812952 - 06/15/15 11:14 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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i know some people that would have flipped the fuck out and ran leaving ya leaking to death without any thought in the world.
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Re: Canoe Catastrophe, Experience, Survival Mode, Manistee River [Re: MajickMuffin]
#21830906 - 06/20/15 12:48 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice story, I used to canoe the pine river back in the day. Have to remain calm and rational. Good on you on the doodle, they are some sweet dogs.
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