Penns Woods

Wee bit o' fog coming off the water this morning.

When camping I still like using my Coleman stove. The smell of bacon and potatoes cooking outside is a great way to start a new day...

I learned from mule packers back in the 1970s. I use an aluminum Dutch on river trips. Baked a cake for my 65th birthday. Now I mostly...

A visitor o along the trail while backpacking the Black Forest Trail in Pennsylvania last week.

Welcome, looking forward to your posts.

We are both 75 and have been canoeing for 50 years. First canoe was a 17’ Coleman, that I bought used from a friend. Second canoe was...

The way you've secured your boat trailer, it does have stabilizers at the front and back, but... the trailer completely lacks any...

An article from the Canadas History magazine (formerly known as the Hudson Bay Co publication The Beaver)...

Well done, good trip. Thanks for the bark in the boots tip, I'll have to remember the trick drying the boots with the bark inside.

I don't know who needs to see it, but this is how I dry out my Boundary Boots. A strip of birchbark roughly 3x15 or so, gently flexed...

Another fixture is this sign... always worn, always crooked. And the Lydia Pond campsite outhouse... been photographing it every time I...

View from the hammock nest early... I got up a little later, when it wasn't so cold. First trout on the wabbler/worm combo...

Been a weird year, but I finally got to take a trip to the St Regis Canoe Wilderness. As described elsewhere, I chose to use a portage...

Not recent photos - I just stumbled across some older photos today, these date from 2000. Caribou crossing the Coppermine River just...

No-see-ums chase me into the tent right in the middle of that beautiful sunset. The fading light still permeates the tent walls. I am...