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Hi folks, I uploaded a video on YouTube called "Portaging Canoe and Packs". Its really intended for beginners who may be struggling with how to get that canoe onto the shoulders, or lift a heavy portage pack onto one's back without doing the turtle on its back thing. I also T up a 30L barrel...

Yakima bars and towers. Yakima gunwale brackets (old model). Bolt-on rain gutter style brackets on truck cap. Rope and trucker's hitches, x2 for each bar. End of the 78 inch bars taped bright so that tall guys can see and not bonk their heads. I am short and walk under with plenty of...

You are deep in the bush, sharing an ecosystem with many animals. The animals outnumber you campers by orders of magnitude. Why would hearing noises in the bush at night be weird? :) The footsteps close by is a sound I often get woken up by. Its often American toads. They are attracted to...

Hi Allen. Solo is easy, its just a technique to learn. Put on the base pack. For stacking (or as I say, for a T-up), lay the pack to be T'd up in front of you, sideways. Grab each end of the shoulder strap closest to you with each hand. In one smooth arcing motion, and fast so that the...

Good info on various kits. I have similar stuff in my kits. RE pitch: I always wondered how the Voyageurs made their repair "pitch", having never read about the precise actual recipes. Frances Ann Hopkins painting, source...

Thanks for the question PC. The following is long-winded, but hopefully it can contribute to your future boat design considerations. I have been solo paddling small tandems exclusively throughout my life, mostly classic prospector-ish designs, many called "prospectors". For the past 25 or so...

Down in the trees, never. Night time is for sleep, and man, do I ever need sleep! For me, its irrational to be awake all night. On canoe trips, the longer the nights get as the season progresses into August, the longer I sleep. I like to be very alert in the morning and enjoy the morning...

Hi Gang, Cooke Custom Sewing has a new “Ridge Line” tarp stuff sack which is designed for just how I like to rig my tarp between two trees. The stuff sack has a grommet hole on one end for the ridge line, so it stays on the ridge line. The stuff sack has an extension so that it has plenty of...

Thanks Sweeper. Part 2 link is here: http://www.myccr.com/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=38216

Hi Red. That link Sweeper provided shows my Evernew Ti pot set that I modified to fit bail handles on. Somewhere on MyCCR I posted a photo rich how-to for drilling the pots, making an offset tab for the bail handle, and pop riveting them on. The Ti pots are the Evernew "deep" 1.4L and 1.9L...

Great TR Mihun09! A little bit of everything: tough portages, hard paddling in the wind, weather, loon crap slogging, swimming at base of falls, nice camps, wildlife viewing, fish dinners, good food, good hosts, and guide-with-chainsaw, post-trip celebrations.....Wow, I am tired out after that...

Nice TR Memaquay! That was some nice looking tarpage! ;)

I don't know about Thrive main website. I bought through Bridens Solutions Canada, which they say is a "consultant" (broker) for Thrive in Canada. http://www.bridensolutions.ca/ Bridens has their own website with the Thrive line that they carry. No memberships, no password or anything, I...

Thanks Wgiles. Those Hungry Jack dry hash browns sure look good, but I have never seen them in Canada in my travels (they may exist in Costco stores, but we don't have a Costco anywhere near where I live). Their website does not list any Canadian grocery chains that I recognize, and it appears...

With due respect Sturgeon, I would disagree with that statement. (but see at the end of this rant where I agree with you! :)). I think its the opposite: more people in the world than ever before canoe, kayak, hike and camp. Its so crowded out there sometimes that parks and trail systems...