Recent content by Dana

I haven't used a tent for years, except for privacy in a group setting. For wilderness camping, it's a bivy sack and a ground cloth. If I'm expecting rain I'll bring a light tarp. If there's unexpected rain I just pull the bivy over my head and go back to sleep. I sometimes bring a hammock...

Paddle naked and use sex wax? :ROFLMAO: Ok, paddling naked isn't required... but "Sex Wax" is a real product, a sticky wax used by surfers to not slide off their surfboards. I have no idea if it would be useful for paddling. It's not really used for sex... I think...

I was just about to post the same one. I've had mine for years, 30 at least, don't even remember where I got it, I'm still using it.

That stuff is vinyl, only good up to 200°F... not even boiling water temperature, not what you want for a cook pot. If you can spread the wire handles to get them off the pot, you might be able to slip some silicone tubing over them, then reassemble. Or use some self fusing silicone "rescue...

I grew up spending summers in a family group camp in NY where my family maintained a cabin (one of 60 an the camp) throughout my childhood. Kids could go out in rowboats with an adult, but weren't allowed in canoes until they "swam the flags", which was a 150 yard swim (supervised, of course)...

Back to the original post, I've been looking for these (Pocket Coffee) for awhile but forgot what they were called. Somebody gave me some years ago, ate most of them but forgot some in a backpack. When I found them during a hike some years later, the liquid center had partially crystalized...

I have never felt unsafe in the woods (the time a bear chased me off the mountain notwithstanding) to the point where I felt the need to carry a firearm. That said, I have occasionally carried a folding .22 or revolver (also .22) just for fun, or small game "targets of opportunity". My...

I never heard of Git-Rot until I saw it mentioned here... I need to repair some rotted wood (full disclosure, it's plywood in a camper, not a canoe). Looking around, some people recommend Rot Doctor, and West Marine has their own brand "Marine Rot Repair Penetrating Epoxy" at a considerably...

Several people mentioned Whisperlite stoves and I used one for years along with an old Svea 123, but my Kiwi son in law sold me on the Trangia type alcohol stoves, that's what everybody used in NZ... almost as hot, lightweight, no moving parts or possibility of clogging, and completely silent.

Man hauling a Duluth pack with a tumpline and another box on top.

Thanks... I looked at online metals but as you say not hollow back and I'd prefer aluminum, but I guess I could use the brass from Northwoods (they have all kinds of neat stuff, there's another rabbit hole I must steadfastly stay away from!).

Thanks... I haven't flown the Parrakeet far yet, but I traveled a bit with the Hatz... the longest was from CT to WV for a fly-in event on an island in the Cheat River, camping on the island. And a number of trips to NY and NJ. The Parrakeet is much more limited in baggage space, so we'll see...

I can't say paddling is a major percentage of my leisure activity but I've probably been doing it for longer than anything else, ~60 years. I spend a lot of time hiking and backpacking, XC skiing when there's snow (downhill skiing just got too expensive). Being well off center on the...

Anybody know a source for the aluminum extension used as a keel rub rail on some older fiberglass canoes? This is an early 1960s vintage glass canoe; the strips run from the gunwale at the bow and stern to a little past where this one is broken at the last screw. The strip is about 3/8"...

My daughter took these on a paddle some years back, I'm posting them in reverse order: It's the bridge you paddle under going from the 2nd Kanawauke lake to the 1st lake (also known as Little Long Pond). Sadly, that beautiful 1930s CCC stonework has since been replaced by a modern ugly...