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In the short version, I heard him say “I’m from Minneapolis”! Which confirmed my initial impression of him. “All hat, no cattle,” is an...

In my opinion, the best knife is the one you have with you at the time.

Good trade Robin, time in the shop for time in a canoe.

I will never buy another canoe to restore and resell. I ended up with more canoes than I could actually use or easily restore like in...

The Kite is free!!! The procedure went so well I slowed the timelapse down to 1/4 speed.

Magic time.

My Athabaskan mentor’s along the Yukon and Tanana Rivers in interior Alaska were meticulous about getting all the snow off from their...

She is passing down canoe tripping knowledge that she learned from old Maine Guides or learned the hard way from experience. I too...

Footwear ismuch like, well.. like canoes. There are pretty good all-rounders and there are great ones that will excel but only in a...

Real smoke tanned moose for the bottoms is way, WAY, better than commercial tanned moose. The Steger Mukluk is a far cry from the real...

Here is a picture of what I think Boreal Birch is talking about. In 1999, Kathleen and I lived in a one-room cabin north of the...

Steger mukluks are as their name implies winter footwear. They are not waterproof, glopping them up with boot grease, snow seal or...

Handful of old white guys are teaching Native Americans the craft of building birch bark canoes. Plus the book, Bark Canoes and Skin...

Frost River packs # 3 and #4 are the same as Duluth Packs. Frost River is owned and manufactured by former Duluth Pack employees that...

At camp last fall I decided I wanted to try a little longer shaft on my twin paddle ..... guess I must talk in my sleep because I had 3...