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Maybe that was your experience but mine has been a responsible indulgence in a glass or two of wine, beer or even a cocktail. I enjoy...

We sometimes buy wood locally and carry it in. If you have room in the boat it is a lot easier - especially on shorter trips or on...

Or toting bundles of pre-cut wood? Boozing is a related issue on which we've had a poll in the past. Teetotalers (like me) have little...

We will be doing mostly lakes. There is one short class II section - Chase Rapids - that gets water from Churchill Dam. The ranger will...

We'll be careful - thanks for your concern.

I'm off to the Allagash next week, but really didn't have the right boat. My Mohawk Whitewater 16 is a barge, and I wasn't sure that I...

I've done trips with both types of paddlers and although I prefer the groups that cook solo, I can deal with shared group cooking if...

I don't like to cook, don't want to cook, and hence don't cook. For anyone. Including myself. At home or in camp. At home, I eat cold...

I'm ready. I usually do what the person who planned the trip wants to do.

Don't worry @jdeerfoot, if you ever make it to the northeast and come on a trip with us we won't expect you to always do the dishes...

Always preferred group meals since I cook almost nothing. My lifelong tradeoff has been I always do all post meal cleanup. It has worked...

I'll share meals/cooking with one or two friends, but with a larger group (very rare for me) or people I haven't camped with before, I'm...

There's always surprises in groups, for instance, surprise Bannock, layered with the surprise mexican jalapeño peppers, the ones the...

Eating is one of those functions of daily life that can be more than merely practical, more so in that we make it part of whichever...

Roughly speaking...... 50% of my extended trips are solo, nothing is easier than cooking for a group of one, other than the odd "fancy"...