Recent content by RatAssassin

Pretty nice day here yesterday also. Put a third bar across my Tacoma and cap. Lots of nice support now. Just need a new solo boat to attach to them now.

Winter woods are wonderful. Quiet time with a thermos full of soup or tea. Cowboy coffee brewed over a folding lightweight backpacking wood stove on a cheapie soot stained Stanley pot set. Nothing but me and the sound of snowflakes delicately crashing down through the bare skeletons of the...

Clothing, materials and weight. Everything is dryer, including ourselves. Everything is lighter and sleep systems are more comortable.

Northern Lake Michigan has some ice piled up by the shore, but not as much as usual. Probably only about 20yds or so and only maybe 4-5 high.

Yeah.....sometimes I really miss my old Zephyr. Not the best wilderness tripper, as far as capacity, but I made it work.

Been looking for a solo under 16ft. I kind of like this boat for the stability to fish out of and yet keep a little speed/efficiency over the Basswood Solo. Both look good. Specs have me thinking the shallow arch is more defined in the Wilderness. I like my milage days, but also will lay up for...

For years, feminine hygiene problems and products cornered the market on tennis in commercials. I don't really care what affliction we got.....at least it's something. At this point, I'd take hangnails and anal warts. Embrace it. 🤣

I don't have much of any winter project/s going on this year. I usually do. Sometimes it's customizing .22 rifles (did enough of that), sometimes cruising thrift stores for good quality but abused chef knives to refinish/fix to give away to aspiring chefs and home chefs who could use quality...

I'm that guy that tries to repackage, or do whatever I can to make it easier to keep smells down. I have always been a "pack it in, pack it out" type. I just have to reconfigure some ingredients to do so. It just requires more planning.

I have a business I have been trying to cut down my time in. It's one of those things you get trapped in. I've been trying to get out for about 5 years. my kid has been running it and crushing it. Our problem is finding help. So I stay on. Hopefully that will change because I started talking...

I hate ticks. Permethrin works well. Just be careful how you apply it around your skin. Read those lables well.

As an owner of a pest control company, in the same general region as you, I can say without a doubt that these past warm winters have not done much for keeping insects of all kinds (including the many invasives we are now dealing with) in check. Last year, we had to treat 2 exteriors in Feb...

Interesting thread. I have , I believe two recipes in the now older Freezer Bag Cooking Cookbook. However, there is one recipe that came out of the Titanium Chef competitions in the early 2000's from the days of the Backpacking forums that got taken over by politics and forever ruined, that tops...

Buy myself a new solo boat. Sell my old one. Paddle the Current River in MO. Hit up some local big flowages (we have lots of free paddle in sites here in WI) for some smaller 2-3 day trips and hopefully expand my pretty much non-existent circle of people who enjoy some paddling, fireside...

I was talking to my neighbors kid (now 40) a few days ago and we got on doing trips when he asked me if I and the wife have anything fun coming up as far as out outdoor travel pursuits. My wife has known this guy since he has been about 3 or 4. Nice guy, nice family. Lives 5 hours away and...