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LOL. Nothing compares to a pole for going upstream. ;) In fact, I routinely outrun double bladers even when I can't reach the bottom...

That's interesting Steve, I never thought of using a double blade for a pole, does it hold up in the long run?

14 k a day will lea e you lots of time for fishing and bird watching. Totally doable.

Alan, if you stop calling your canoe naughty names, it will treat you nicer. And you gotta have a set of arms, not twigs hanging out of...

I'm Canadian, and I am very reluctant to play the switchy thing, so Al, I guess you are right. I played around this weekend in my Raven...

Clearly a double blade versus single is a personal preference. Since we ate sharing our opinions based on our experience I will share...

I have very rarely used bow and stern lines for transport. Actually, I don't think I have ever used them. I have always assumed they...

I'm posting this day trip mainly because it's rather unique owing to it's location and timing... Rainy Lake is located in the North...

We did a trip down the Spanish last summer (trip report is coming), meaning we didn't do a big Algonquin trip last year. My eldest...

Wow, I wonder how I missed this report. Excellent job. I did some whitewater training on the French, somewhere around Hartley Bay. I...

Not to be nosey, but do your September trips still involve coming up to Ontario? My memory is not the best now, but I seem to recall you...

I find myself using both measurement systems too, but to be honest, metric is a lot easier if one if fractionally challenged. Most of...

Except for woodworking, I haven't found many project plans in Canada using metric.

Time to wrap this up (I've done a little better at working on it than I've done at reporting progress) I don't recall if I waited a...

Fifty pounds is great for that canoe. People who haven't seen a Raven before are often surprised by how big it is. I've never found it...