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I was a big fan of HawkVittles dehydrated meals for a long time, when Hawk had the company, but no longer buy them. New owner has apparently done some recipe tweaking for the 'spicy' American palette, which conflicts with my German upbringing. I've also had issues with portion size/quality and...

Most of my trips are in a 22lb ultralight pack canoe that sits very lightly on my shoulders/packstraps when the dis-assembled double paddle is used as a yoke. But if I portaged a traditional tandem canoe, yeah maybe... the KnuPack was the former solution. But the pack must solve both problems...

When I lived in LA (16 years total), I never went out without a firearm. I could hunt something year round, though the heat of summer was the equivalent of January in Alaska, and I didn't go out much between June and August. In the canoe, where water mocs were an issue, and if not actively...

I look like Robin... In the warmer times, I like a tan-colored nylon fishing shirt... doesn't really matter what brand... current one might be Columbia or PFG? I've also used CampMor and many others over the years. The main point is that I like a gusseted shoulder joint, a ventilated...

I'm still trying to find a cheap Cold Handle at a local antique store... In the meantime, I use two other sheet steel pans. One is a modern Paderno 6" pan with almost vertical sides, to which I've added the folding handle from a 'non-stick' Coleman pan that started sticking (grind off the...

Sorry this took so long Glenn... have been out of country for a few weeks, since late October, and am just now getting un-jet-lagged and caught up on forums and such. Seem to have missed it a few days ago.

This past summer, my wife and I spent some time at the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake... there, I ran into a book called "An Adirondack Passage: the Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp" by Christine Jerome... she basically re-enacted one of Nessmuk's cruises and then wrote about it. I...

Pretty sure it's just 4... a home made stitch and glue, two wood-canvas, and a carbon fiber. Still have 2 of them.

I spend my time on the Chesapeake, Little Tupper/Low's/Lila/Long outside Long Lake, NY, or the St Regis Canoe Wilderness (and Floodwood). I have filled my entire canoe with garbage during a spring cleanup (just me, tired of it, not sponsored) of my little estuary of the Chesapeake... The result...

I don't do whitewater, and am not required to carry a throw bag. I have about 6-8' of painter on each end of my canoes, just enough to get out and keep it on a leash while fording or landing. It's mostly 3/16" nylon braided line.

I'm lucky to live in MD these days... water never freezes, and I just bought a pair of nice neoprene boots... I try to get out all winter, either camping or canoeing. It's just different than in Spring/Summer/Fall. Growing up in central NY, I did other stuff... snow-shoeing was probably my...

I do not build them. I don't like when people build them add something foreign to the perceived beauty of an area in the US. Where there's a pile of rocks to mark a trail or turnoff, I'm all for it. As mentioned, they can be lifesavers. Piled next to a stream for whatever 'aesthetic' reason...

I am essentially a lightweight backpacker who happens to carry a canoe, most of the time. I prefer a 3" thick full length Thermarest NEOAir much of the time. 18oz. In cooler weather, I go with the better R-rating of a Klymit Static-V, and if conditions permit/necessitate, I lay a foam pad...

My wife and I were married in 1986... at the time, we instituted a $50 rule... more than that, you declared your intent, it was discussed, and generally approved. Now, 37 years later, it's more like $75... but she's pretty tolerant of the habit, knowing I will drive her nuts if I don't get...

I put 3-5, but mostly because that's just about as far as I need to paddle any canoe to get where I want to be (St Regis, mostly). I've pushed, and it's not fun. Once I get "there", I like get camp set up, stay in the same spot for a few days, and paddle day trips from that camp. And that's...

Since the cell phone camera has evolved as far as it has, I no longer carry a separate camera. I kept my camera in a little holster, either on my belt or hooked on some thick wires on the thwart. I keep my phone in my left breast pocket while underway, and in my right cargo pocket while...

Great trip report. Turtle/Slang were where I took my daughter on her earliest trips (Low's was another). And the island lean-to on Follensby Clear, last time I was there a couple years back, was home to one of the most entitled red squirrels I've ever run across. Little dude was a complete...

Trip length makes no difference. All that changes there is food, and my trips are usually overnight if backpacking, 2-4 overnights if canoeing, and rarely as long at 5 overnights. To me, everything is about the portages. The older I am, the lighter the canoe. For hard trips it's a Hemlock...

I've got three wannigans... When I lived in LA, mostly I did out and back bayou or lake trips, no portaging, and one of them was made of 3x pieces of 1"x 12" pine with plywood sides. A bungi cord run handle-to-handle kept the lid on, and a piece of weatherstripping around the top edge made it...

I'll say right off that I've never done more than 5 days alone... I don't do well by myself for too long, and miss people. But I'll quickly add that companionship makes anything tolerable. I have been 6 weeks without a proper bath/shower, 5 weeks with exactly the same meal 2x a day, and...