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Always bring two paddles each on an extended wilderness trip. ‘Just In Case’ could happen to you, someday, even though you are more likely to forget a paddle on a portage. In over 40 years of paddling, only broke one paddle myself, and watched a fellow paddler pull a micro blade out of the Flon...

A little humor goes a long way! I am a long time stuffer, both the tent and sleeping bag. Much faster, especially on cold mornings when you just want to get on the water. We could put this up for a vote or ask a psychiatrist if there is a hidden meaning to our methods.

The J stroke was never my favorite as I found it cumbersome and tiring. Much prefer the Canadian stroke with a narrow blade wood paddle for lakes and easy rivers, and a cheap but tough Mohawk plastic paddle for rapids. Better yet, to go solo with a double blade. Stand up paddling works for me...

It’s like going to those huge grocery stores, just too many choices and time consuming . Nevertheless, interesting to look and drool over the many new models. Now in my golden years, a lighter canoe would be preferable but dragging over shallow rivers and bush wak portages ( could call them...

So far, winter sucks in east central Saskatchewan. We had a brown Christmas, the last one was in 1997. My favorite winter sport, x-c skiing, is a no go. The ground is froze up good but many days it has been getting up to the freezing mark. Even Flin Flon, Manitoba, doesn’t have enough snow to...

Never had a dedicated solo boat, but the old 16 ft. Old Town Penobscot in royalex has served me well for over 30 years. For a royalex, it is fairly fast and with a double blade, I can almost keep up with a tandem crew, except on a windy day. By now it is a beater with numerous patches so I will...

Although, this skid plate discussion is an old one, I’d like to add my 2 cents worth and disagree with Cliff J’s disdain for Kevlar skid plates. My forty some year canoe experience has been thousands of miles of wilderness tripping in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, NWT, and Nunavut. Although I probably...