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My own son I took canoeing from when he was an infant. He refused the canoe trips and when he finally became an adult he told me he...

I spent 30 years taking high school kids on extended wilderness trips. Our focus was a little different from much of what is being...

My first canoe trip I was still in diapers, and with a father who worked as a summer ranger for the old OLF before it became the MNR...

I paddled a beat up aluminum canoe once a year at church camp 3 years in a row when I was a kid and didn’t touch one again until I...

He was not wrong. I got interested thru the Boy Scouts and learned a lot during my years as an lifeguard / aquatics instructor. The...

I am with you - I am really trying to stop buying those semi-useful things that catch my eye. In fact, now I am trying to sell off or...

Good old canoetripping.net, you might arrive here with money, but you will leave with none, lol. I can't remember how many semi-useful...

I was glad to be on the water early today.

Exactly. Pool noodles, I saw that too in addition to the foam blocks on the car tops. When I started tripping, we just wrapped a foam...

I know we’re talking about racks, but Erica’s observation on Canadians and their car topping got me thinking about how they carry their...

Recently returned from Québec and saw very, very few canoes on cars or trucks, except in the Vérendrye region. None had fancy Thule or...

I was waiting for someone to bring this up, there a significant differences in how to deal with one type of bug vs another type. Since...

I have been a member of this board for just the past 5 years but I don’t remember any vetting questions. But then I don’t necessarily...

I think AI is a huge issue for humanity going forward, and I hate to see it infiltrating forums, which have been one of my favourite...

I make sport of killing invaders - however, you need to accept bug stains on the walls of tent interior. I also second the use of...