Hi Steve

Wow that sounds like an awesome canoe - probably cost more than your car. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />There is so much fine canoeing up here, on lakes. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> You don't enter our class 5 rapids that go through old lava beds in a canoe though. Over the ridge along Sisters Wilderness is a string of beautiful lakes. I used to drive up here from SF on vacation to canoe here. But you won't swim in our lakes without a wet suit, unless you're into cold water.

The south end of the wilderness has an area with literally thousands of small lakes. Even larger lakes with a dirt road leading to them may have only one canoe on them on a given weekend. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />