Circumventing Lakes

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have you ever circumvented a lake? that is to say, gone around it? which lakes have you done this with, or would like to...?

it was mentioned on another thread, and it seems a nice idea. either a small one, on foot. or a large one, perhaps using a vehicle as well

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

TS: circumvent vs circumnavigate

― Dan (Whose Connotation Reigns Supreme?) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

i've circumsized *and* supersized a lake before. oy!

― do knut (donut), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

i must admit, i was worried about this. perhaps i shall try again, another time

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

You'd certainly want to avoid the water, or else your car's gonna get all wet.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I made that post because my initial reaction was "YO GARETH THAT'S THE WRONG WORD" but m-w.com does give that as a valid definition; furthemore, circumnavigation is listed as implying travel by water (which is probably why you most commonly see it in sentences that also contain "Magellan").

I do kind of like the idea of spending a weekend hemming in a lake.

― Dan (Your Nefarious Plans Are Thwarted, Inland Body Of Water!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

(I swear I had a bit that was responsive to the thread question in that last post! I don't remember ever walking completely around a lake, mostly because every time I've attempted it I've gotten very bored and jumped in the water.)

― Dan (Scenery Schmenery) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

There was a very small man-made lake in the suburb I used to live in, around which I perambulated many a time. There were occasionally ducks.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

It's probably fun for a while, but going all around the entire great lakes would probably run out of novelty value around day 1.5. Sure, it's all fresh water, and that's an amazing geographical phenomenon, but there aren't as many interesting immediate geographical side effects that are nice on the eyes compared to driving along a major ocean, in comparison.

― do knut (donut), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

well yes, i would have used circumnavigate (and actually did on the other thread), but yes it does imply by water. and i do mean 'around' the lake, ie on land.

i think if i had thought longer about it, i might have put "going around lakes". its times like this, i wish i had mod powers, so i could join in the fun

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

ive portaged several in northen sask. the best one was a river, then two miles of woods, then a rain lake, then two miles of bush, then another lake.

there was no source to this lake, no spring or river or crick--it was just water collected from winter run off, rain, condesation, etc.

and it lasts all summer--it was beautifully haunting, these lodgepole pines, 30 feet high, over pwoering this timy lake, deep but tiny, like a knife slice...

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ca/alameda/postcards/lkmerr.jpg

I travel around Lake Merritt in Oakland almost daily. I did last night.

― andy --, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I have walked around a few lakes in the English Lake District. From memory these are Buttermere and Ennerdale Water (definitely); Loweswater and Grasmere (possibly, although I cannot remember if I walked ALL the way round those).

In more recent years I have walked all the way round the Serpentine/Long Water in London (does that count?) and also the lake in Hatfield Forest (Essex).

― Oak (small items), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

when I was in Seattle, my sister and I circumvented Green Lake, but she was driving.

Surely, that is not the only lake, that I have circumvented!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.btshilohs.com/Goliath-running%20at%20lake.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I've walked around the boating lake in Gunnersbury Park.

I would like to walk around many more lakes.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I once had to circumvent Lake Valencia because my basketball fell into the water. It floated across the lake, and I was able to get around the water by the time it hit the other side. Since I was already halfway around, I got my basketball and finished the loop to get back to where I had started.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I walked round a big lake in Da Lat, Vietnam's premiere honeymoon spot. It took me about an hour and a half, and the scenery looked weirdly English. I was not on my honeymoon.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

It's probably fun for a while, but going all around the entire great lakes would probably run out of novelty value around day 1.5.

My wife and I drove around Lake Michigan 2 summers ago and Lake Superior last summer. We started at our home base of Chicago and both trips took about 4 1/2 days (out of necessity--we would have spent longer if we could). It was a blast both times. Seeing how the topography changes as we progressed north then south was interesting, not to mention the many fantastic spots for camping along the way-- Sleeping Bear Dunes NP on L. Michigan's eastern shore, or Pukaskwa NP in Ontario. More than novelty value, both drives are recommended to anyone who likes driving, water, or having the chance to see what their country looks like.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

gareth you really need to come to minneapolis. we have no choice but to do this!

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

TS: circumventing lakes vs. circumnavigating islands

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/2001/playoffs/news/2001/06/08/sixers_lakers_ap/t1_iverson_ap-01.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

i've been round the lake in my birth town dozens of times. but it's a small lake, 6.5km round trip

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Albert Park lake is nearby me (I can see it out my window at work!) and is apparently a nice walk-around you can do in an hour or so. Thats the lake around which the Grand Prix cars go zoom zoom zoom every march, doing my head in with the noise.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

I've walked around the little lake in town in Stavanger, Norway, and walked half-way around the bigger lake where the art museum is. I've also walked around the lagoon at UCSB, which is kind of a lake.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

gareth, you've gotta stop stealing my good ideas. ;-)

― oh ilx my lionheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Lake George, oh yes. Upstate NY has lovely lakes, they're all long and thin and have steep wooded sides.

― Tweed as F*ck (kate), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

does Ruislip Lido count?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

It's lovely to climb a good Adirondack mountain and look down at a sheet of shining water with the mist rising off. (Oh, this is making me nostalgic.)

http://mitoc.mit.edu/trip_reports/2004-09-24-FallLakeGeorge-Rebecca/Lake_George.png

― Tweed as F*ck (kate), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

i have semi circumvented lake baikal on the trans siberian. doesnt really count though, as the train doesnt go that close to the lake itself.

this one does though:

http://kbzd.irk.ru/Map/scheme_1e.gif

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 November 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

In a manner of speaking, I've circumvented Lake Ontario. In that, I've driven down through NY State along its Southern shores, and also driven through Canadia on its Northern shores. Though I haven't done the whole thing in one go.

― Tweed as F*ck (kate), Thursday, 17 November 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

i have semi circumvented lake baikal on the trans siberian. doesnt really count though, as the train doesnt go that close to the lake itself.

yes it does, doesn't it? i've done that too and i remember waking up one morning and going out of the compartment to the corridor and all i could see from that side of the train was endless water. WOW.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

All those town names rule beyond description.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

yeha whoops iot does, i kinda forgot. i think i was asleep at that point. nothing could as be as good as the circum baikal railway though, its my mission to go on there. i have a massive map of russia on my wall, and look at it very often.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I've always wanted to take a quick vacation to do this: http://www.lakesuperiorcircletour.com/.

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

I've always wanted to take a quick vacation to do this: http://www.lakesuperiorcircletour.com/.
― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, November 17, 2005 1:43 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

thread revival to say I finally did this and it was awesome, Sparkle Motion's Rising Force completely OTM above about Pukaskwa and the topography (we did about a 1/2 Lake Michigan tour as well). Hiawatha NF, Lake Superior PP and Neys PP also recommended, plus I always love Duluth/Superior and the Sault area was surprisingly fun and interesting as well.

wish we'd had more time, it could be done better. Huron is next on the list.

― keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 02:22 (fourteen years ago)

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