Recent content by Seeker

Thanks for sharing. I did a quick overnight trip to the Bog River Flow in August, one night on Hitchens Pond, and a quick trip up to the lake itself. Always nice, but often full of people.

"See things?" No. Hear the "voices of the voyageurs" in the rapids or when it raining? Absolutely... wife heard that the first time she ever went out with me on a trip... heard someone passing the campsite by canoe in the dark, and asked me about it the next day... "did you hear those people...

My general first aid philosophy is to have educated myself with a first aid course and only carry stuff I actually know how to use (like bandaids and OTC meds.) I sometimes use a SAM Splint as an ultralight backpack stiffener, and I know how to splint simple fractures. No tourniquets, sutures...

I've got fond memories of being a Scout there during some late-70s summers, and several trips in the 2010s. Some of my cousins and neighbors who were Scouts with me only recently quit doing the annual setting up and tearing down at Sabattis, and the cousins (3 of them involved in a family run...

I was there last summer, while they were working on all of it. I believe the eventual goal is to make it entirely handicapped accessible, to include campsites. I saw marking tape at just about every likely landing spot. The fact that there's a bulldozed road entirely around the area would...

I tarp or hammock; haven't tented in ages. I always carry an old piece of army green CCF sleeping pad, about 9x15, as a sit pad, kneeling pad, fire blower, placemat, helinox chair insulator, day-pack stiffener, rain-cover when bent over the top of my pack, and carpet/doormat. It's almost...

OK guys... thanks for the input. As I suspected, and as confirmed by a few of you, the four corners technique apparently works... I came home from work today, Tuesday, and my straps were already here. I got them off Amazon for about $2.25 each. I found some old webbing I had once used as a...

Another boot drying trick involves harnessing campfire heat/convection, but it's more for old-style high leather riding boots... unless you're exceptionally attentive, campfire heat would melt the neoprene. You use a flat sheet of 1/4" plywood cut out in the shape of your boot's cross-section...

Folks, can't thank all of you enough for the prompt responses. I'm only currently using 2 straps, one front/one back. But I have wrapped them through the gunwale slots and the thwarts in an attempt to 'brace' them diagonally from cart to canoe. I have tried center and off-center placement...

Overall, a good trip... highs in the 60s, lows in the 30s, 3 of 4 days sunny and clear, didn't get rained on, learned a lot, found some peace, and am ready to go back this summer and fall. I'm blessed to have moved closer to the Dacks again in 2018... I used to get maybe 1 trip a year, at the...

I don't know who needs to see it, but this is how I dry out my Boundary Boots. A strip of birchbark roughly 3x15 or so, gently flexed, inserted to leave an inch or so of space at the bottom, and then released to hold in place. Set at the edge of the leanto... this is a natural wind block, and...

Another fixture is this sign... always worn, always crooked. And the Lydia Pond campsite outhouse... been photographing it every time I go by for about 15 years. Beaver damage is everywhere... The fire pit at Lydia. Someone made a nice bench. There's a point on Little Long (west)...

View from the hammock nest early... I got up a little later, when it wasn't so cold. First trout on the wabbler/worm combo. Merganser. Loon, one of two who kept me company. Sunset on Fish Pond, looking east. Sunset again, looking due south. There was a roughly 3/4 moon. I usually...

Been a weird year, but I finally got to take a trip to the St Regis Canoe Wilderness. As described elsewhere, I chose to use a portage cart instead of my normal "Hoel to Turtle to Clamshell to Fish" route, and go from Little Clear to St Regis and then along the ski trail to Fish. This is the...

The cam buckles look like this.