Recent content by ScottS

,,,you wake up in the morning.

Inflate my air mattress? My butler inflates my air mattress, of course.

I use rescue rope. It floats. You can get it in 1/4 inch if you want something thin. I have bought mine from NRS. I think a painter should float, and a lining rope should float for sure. It's cheap, compared to what your canoe is worth. https://www.nrs.com/search/?q=rope

It was one of the best possible rivers to restore - 75 miles, almost all of it inside a roadless National Park where it would never get logged or developed. Salmon heaven!

A little more on beaver and river restoration. Pre-beaver-wipe-out fur trapping, the little buggers were all over, and a lot of the rivers that we know as free flowing had beaver dams, marshes and meadows, so they weren't so "free-flowing". So, removal of a dam to create a free flowing river...

Bunch of dam stuff. I spent 27 years in the Pacific Northwest, and have lived the last dozen or so in CT. Someone asked about how long it takes for a river to recover from a dam removal - In 2005 or so, I did an art project for a Sandy River dam removal project. The Sandy drops of of Mt. Hood...

Excellent write-up!

Same here, I've never used a ground tarp with a backpacking/mountaineering tent, and never found a reason to.

As to boat lamps - do an internet search for "suction cup boat lights". I found one in the water and mounted on the stern of a canoe it would probably meet the bill for night boat lighting.

Throwing a line to floater is much better than letting them grab onto your boat, until you can assess their panic level. And of course, you don't need to throw it very far, unlike a land based throw. I paddle solo about 90% of the time and I carry my 75 ft throw bag on nice weekends when the...

I'm going to vote that grandpa was irresponsibly close to a bison bull that had been clearly behaving in an agitated and unpredictable manner within the campground... and the results seem to prove that to be correct. If he was acting responsibly, he wouldn't have gotten tossed, or even drawn...

Bison go everywhere in Yellowstone Park, it is not a zoo.

Walking up to take a cell phone photo of an angry bull bison was the problem. Always make sure that several dumb people are between you and the bison...it's common knowledge.

ALL bison are potentially aggressive, at any moment, and without any warning. The NPS has pamphlets and warning signs all over at Yellowstone and people still walk up to the fuzzy cows. The NPS says to stay back 25 yards, but when I've been there, I get wary at a hundred and won't go anywhere...

You couldn't get me to shut up if we had a sarcasm font.