Mason

They were Kokatat, but I don't know what model.

I'm not the OP, but I paddled the Noatak a few years ago. We had one day of wet storm. We had an inReach forecast, so found a nice...

On my last trip in northern Canada (Nunavut), which involved a fair bit of upstream wading, three of the four of us were using dry pants...

Should be no problem. Just make sure you say you have "bear spray" and not pepper spray, which they define as a defensive weapon...

It calmed down a little--the others got to sleep until 6am! (I was already up.) We still had to do a surf launch.

Beer, huh?

I bought a Hilleberg specifically for these northern trips. And all other tents were Hillebergs.

Wind day or not?

And let's not forget muskox coming within 100m from camp. Kazan River, Nunavut.

Here's an interesting one, related to the prior. There were hundreds of these columns of flies (as far as the eye could see) on the...

Need I say more? (But not black flies).

I spent July in my office doing paperwork. Nowleye-Kunwak-Kazan, Nunavut.

I got the satellite available notice on my Android Pixel 9 (didn't need to use it). I think it matters more on the phone than the...

Well, it's pointy on both ends, and open.....Thomas Cole’s “The Voyage of Life: Youth” (1840)

I paddled it in August 26 years ago (w/ my 9yo daughter, her mother and a friend solo). The paddling was trivial then, needing to look...