Mason

Same here--43 days. Lots of portages, so weight was important. Worked out, so another 42 day trip a few years later (and another 30 day...

@tomo is looking for one Looking for Monarch

Here ya go! Monarch

Or you could avoid the wife part altogether and stay single. A man's gotta know his priorities (said in a Clint Eastwood voice).

No bending needed--each one has only two attachment points. And it'd be a chore bending that thick extruded aluminum.

I don't wet foot. My kevlar Voyager has scratches. I don't baby it, but I don't abuse it either. I either come ashore abeam with care...

What's your traditional method? For me, I've found that even with heavy packs, if I balance it on both thighs, and then slip into it...

Such a fun river. I lived about a half mile from it near Gakona.

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.