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ha ha vestes de flottaisons - pfd

The last group trip was a few years ago now and a family thing. I was in no way an influencer of decisions, I was just coming along for the ride. It suited me that dinner plans were agreed upon before the short trip, and that fewer cooks around the fire (more than 1 but fewer than 5) meant that...

I was once a hayseed having just left home, working in the steel mill and couchsurfing at my brother's; it was a soft landing but both were a fast track to growing up asap. We'd walk the 2 blocks to the gritty neon downtown most evenings, a hands-on educational tour of another side of life. One...

Eating is one of those functions of daily life that can be more than merely practical, more so in that we make it part of whichever culture we ascribe to. No strict adherence to rules and dogma is always required, unless you're in that camp. That's cool too if you are. I never knew there was...

Just returned from a washed out vacation in the near north where signs of summer storms gone squirrelly are everywhere. Microbursts and strong gusts have wreaked havoc in a lot of places. Halfway home everywhere we saw tops of young pines snapped off like they'd been dead-headed in a garden...

Cool. I was wondering if Missinaibe Outfitters might pick up your stashed gear and canoe for a fee?

Exciting adventure all round, looking forward to your TR. But unfortunate ending. Really glad you're home safe. Missinaibe Outfitters?

Here's some interesting HB history. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/archeological-discovery-runestone-northern-ontario-1.7558069

Gamma's central PA looks too familiar now. On a recent drive down and into a nearby steel city something seemed out of place, but I couldn't quite figure it out at first. Temp inversions and heat island effects usually means the rusty sooty sky stays in place above that city before westerlies...

We have house wrens nesting in a brightly painted bird box my grandson made me several years ago, and so Peterson Field Guides Eastern Birds (Roger Tory Peterson) is at my elbow and A Field Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (Colin Harrison) is likewise sitting open...

I stand corrected on 2 counts, the nature of the weir (canoe pass /slides are more common in France), and the final results concluded by Paddle UK and Welsh Conservation. It's still inconceivable that this could happen under any circumstances.

And let's avoid the inconvenient facts that this pretendian was filling the cultural and ecological void of conservation with facts. There's that. And that was the counterpoint of his "fake" indigenous message of conservation to Colonial Victorians. The source was false. The message was true.

No they weren't, sadly deferring to another "authority" was merely being trusting and lax. This sounds like victim blaming, but in this day and age, how is it that internet savy peeps cannot do due diligence?

Wit aside, that's an ambiguous term. What one word would you use to describe Verlen Kruger's watercraft, variously manufactured by Sawyer (Loon), Mad River (Monarch) and then Kruger himself (Sea Wind)? Kayak. Simple, except for you desperate types. Blah blah blah... "the word "canoe" is itself...

Kindly park your obtuse defensive speak and do a little more research.