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Having organized group meals for extended trips for over 30 years, I don't care to ever do it again. I'm quite happy sharing a fire or...

I get a kick out of the suburban peppers who are going to grab their bug out bags, hop in their "overlanding" rigs, and head into the...

Glad to hear you are getting back into the pole of things. I'm hoping to do a real trip this summer too, first in a few years.

A little over a couple years ago, I had some serious medical issues that came on rather suddenly and left me weak and unbalanced. But...

That's a good plan, but you have forgotten the most important Apocalypse belief......Zombies can't survive the extreme cold, even mild...

North Bay rocks. It’s pretty much the epicentre for canoeing in Ontario. Temagami, APP, the James Bay drainage rivers and so much more...

I flew into CFB North Bay to partiipate with my aircraft in their air show static desplay and flyover, around 1981 as I recall, for the...

I grew up on Canadian air force bases, my Dad was a radar technician. Nuclear war was a daily reality for us. Because we were the base...

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Mike Tyson Stay home.

I first paddled a Grumman on a pond at my grandparents house in Ohio. What I enjoyed most was paddling around with my cousins, without...

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...

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...

Some of those old fiberglass chopper 3 keeled canoes are tough as heck. I have seen them still going strong with well over 50 years of use.

Forgot to mention, inn a less charitable tone, whoever designed the bed rails on the 2024 Ranger needs a kick in the Gonads. Many...