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Most of the good trips in the western US and Canada have no phone coverage. A Sat phone is about the only useful device. I go on trips...

I have a compass, and maybe a map, and I pay close attention to my surroundings. But just for fun, I always carry a couple of dead...

(y) And that is all I need to be happy.

This box was a gift for me from a paddle friend last weekend. 🥰 He handed me the box and said: Look, I brought you something... it's...

Nor'easter approaches the Catskills.

In October 2025 in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, open canoes paddle through a canopy tunnel of coloring leaves and then disappear into...

Autumn is comming.

@Robin - Thanks so much for all that information. I plan on logging it all and hope to use it in the future. I do have a nice...

Hi snapper, I have had a lot of fun in my retirement years working on old canoes. I would buy them cheap, fix them up and sell them for...

I picked up this stove in a barn clean-out a couple of days ago. It seems in ok shape everything moves as it should. It was last used on...

This is from the Headwaters Canoe Facebook page, use duct tape on the trail, then dental floss at home! Every repair that comes into...

I agree, very handy. I had a tent pole start to split at the joint when setting up the tent so I whipped the end of the pole with dental...

2025 has been an odd year for me in regards to getting out. My annual Canadian trip was preempted by my niece’s wedding in Oregon and...

Long Pond, St.Regis Wilderness Area.

The last moments of Summer in SW MI. Monday was the last sunny, hot, dry day of a long heat wave. Still in the 80s when I took the pic...