The Pack and Paddle Blog

At the beginning of the class everyone shared with each other words of concern towards the cold wind and the newness of kayaking. But as the class progressed I could see and hear everyone getting more confident. “Let’s go in our fast kayaks” Mary said to Julie.  Then Anne said “How much longer will we be out here?” [...] Continue Reading

We met behind Pack & Paddle at 8am, our group consisted of Glenn and I, Anne and Steve, a couple from Atlanta, Peter and Helena, siblings from Lafayette and Mandeville, and Dean, a long time friend of Pack and Paddle. We convoyed to Chico State Park and put in at the North Landing. We traversed [...] Continue Reading

The day was cold and very windy so I wasn’t too surprised when a group of 4 called me to cancel that morning.  I then called everyone else on the list to reassure them that the trip was still on, good thing too because one of the participants was wavering until I called.  So we [...] Continue Reading

We met at Pack and Paddle around 4:30 am. Roy arrived first and we talked about tackle and equipment until Charlie drove up. Roy and Charlie hit it off as soon as they met. Roy brought up some of the high school football scores from the previous night and the two seemed to forget all [...] Continue Reading

This was a great day for this paddle trip. Cool weather, calm to no wind, and crystal clear skies. We all met at the Lake Martin boat launch to help get the boats in the water quickly and take advantage of the early sunset. Much to our surprise, we found ourselves sharing the peninsula with [...] Continue Reading

We left Pack & Paddle with a meeting place in Breaux Bridge. Once everyone met up at the Exxon station, we took the windy roads to Coteau Holmes. We turned off at Bayou Portage Road, traveled to the end where we dropped off the canoes and all but the drivers. Shhh, this is a bit [...] Continue Reading

The day started out very early as we all meet at Pack and Paddle Saturday morning. We followed each other to Choupique Bayou, where we unloaded the kayaks and began our adventure.  The morning started out very good, we had fish in the box after 30 minutes from launching.   Johnnie found a honey hole where [...] Continue Reading

The Backbone is not a loop trail and it requires us to stage some vehicles at the end of the route so we have a way back when we finish. We used the “chuck wagon”, my truck, to pile everyone in the back, and one more which worked out quite nicely since we had 13 [...] Continue Reading

I’m doing something that’s way outside my comfort zone.  This is my first week working out at Ragin Crossfit.  Let me say first off that I hate working out.  This morning the workout was a 3 mile run and 100 sit ups.  I’ve got no problem with running.  In fact I love it.  But when [...] Continue Reading

Our morning started off just fine leaving Lafayette on time and taking some detours through Lafayette, and even with highway construction and a distracted guide, we made it to CCNA trail head by 10:00am to find the rest of our party as scheduled. Finally, we were ready to get our hikers moving down the trail when we discovered that a member of our party had [...] Continue Reading