Recent content by tump_lion

friend of mine picked one up about twenty years ago -- we call it 'the whale spoon' -- far too large for anything practical except hard forward power...

the 1988 swift canoe catalog had a fellow named 'prospetor bill' in an add, some old bearded guy with a 'familiar' look, one rubber-booted foot in a sport-pal type tin can talking about how great the lines of his birch-bark painted boat were compared to the more modern sawyer type designs that...

'when you've got to trust somebody, make it eddie bauer...'

cheap and cheerful... and very functional https://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/wood-burning-stove/A-p8282303e

john's shop is always a great spot to pop-in and chat canoe...he let me borrow his 16" guide and take it across the street to the lake to play with after an all-day headwind in my chum -- i almost bought it on the spot -- that was 1993 or so :)

great boats on the water -- that extra foot or two can make a huge difference on the portage tho -- but great on the water -- i've been lusting after the lines of the EM White guide shapes....

nice job on the baker mode -- rustrum illustrates this -- i betcha you end up open-faced more times then not...

a few years of fairly agressive canoe-tripping i blew out the back seams of my 16" hunting shoes -- probably a little slop in the sizing -- by the next spring when i thot to send them back, the turn-around for repair was 16 weeks or something crazy, so i just bought another pair -- one size...

gear first, boat follows -- consider two smaller packs vs one large pack --- you can double-pack one on the other when the going is good,, but drop one off for fast maneuvers on sudden uphills or mush or narrow bits...i find it's easier and has more flow than slowing down or resting with a...

used to get tonnes of wood ticks out in Manitoba -- but this past fall me and the dog have started picking up them Lymey southern ticks here on the outskirts of the GTA -- totally different beast! I'm just about to 'invest' in one of those small tick-spinner crowbar things -- they look good in...

oh, that's a beauty pack!

what a remarkable blog! i'm always a little surprised that we all share the same trails, trees, rocks and firepits and so on on our trips... such a very very large small world!

i'm on my second tacoma -- my '95 was shot-out from under me, the '02 that replaced it is still warm in the driveway...

i always figured it was because Chev/GMC diluted their market share with very similar product...silverado/sierra

glad you went with the split sides -- opens up a whole range of options -- i've seen this in rutrum and the beckel/eena catalog and think it's a pretty nifty idea -- if i could only justify yet another canvas shelter... some snap-in screens might be fun too...