I Should Be There

I should be in the duck blind right now, but I got scared of a little wind. A square stern canoe with a 10 hp motor is perfectly safe on a big lake in 20mph winds! What was I thinking!

A lot of times that 6th sense could save a lot of grief.

yep.

U could be floating buttcheekes up in the lake too

Why worry about wind? It was blowing just as hard yesterday and I walked in just fine...

Yep I agree with Sooner N TX. The wind did not bother my walk in at all and also made the ducks this morning decoy great and came away with a 3 man limit of big ducks.

Back surgery took care of my walking in days.

Streater Im about to be in the same boat with ya!! Im 33 and have degenerative disc disease and am having to get surgery in January.

duck, I had a 360 fusion at L5 in 2012. I was 38 and had lived with back pain for almost 10 years. The surgery was a success, and I am back to about 95%. I didn't understand how bad my back was injured until everything stopped hurting! Modern medicine is incredible. Don't be scared. It just hurts like hell for about a week.

I don't mind the walk. I love to walk, actually. I just don't want to risk a fall with 50lbs of gear on my back, in the dark, 1-3 miles from my vehicle.

Mine is L5 as well with bone spurs and no disk left and sitting on my sciatic nerve roots. I am glad to hear from another person that the surgery was a success.

L5/S1. Good thing you are doing it in the winter. That back brace sucks in the Texas summer. The painkillers were the worst part. You'll want to wean off those things 2 weeks after your surgery.

I drag a sled, so no worry about the falling with gear. But I can see how dragging a sled might actually be worse on the back then carrying a back-pack. Its all about balance.

I did have a buddy that tried using a hand-cart dolly. He changed out the axle and put on over-sized balloon tires. Wasn't the worst idea ever.