Recent content by Mason

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 Kunwak River in Nunavut. Pretty impressive.

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 operating system. You might look into it.

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 out for sandbars occasionally. I don't know what higher levels are like, but I suspect just faster flat water and fewer sandbars. There's lots of info out there...

What skills are you looking for? Paddling or camping, or the combination? A wonderful trip not far from Denver is the Green River in Utah. Put in at Green River, and get a boat shuttle out at the confluence to Moab. You can also do shorter trips with other landing sites. We spent a very...

I want to see them do that in a 17' Grumman or a Blue Hole OCA!

If the tent is separate from the fly, I pack the fly separately (under a pack flap, outside of liner, etc.). Packing it in a separate dry bag makes sense only if it's going in with your dry stuff. Packing everything together will soak the inner tent a lot worse than taking it down in the rain...

Exactly. I don't have mesh tents, so a release is helpful. I always zip up the mesh door, but maybe half of the fabric door.

Zip them up (at least half way). Facilitates pitching, particularly with stakes, as you can't make things too tight for zipping them up after you pitch. Half of the tent door (through the widest part) and the full fly. Edit: Zip everything in bug country!