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And then there's Lake Powell and the Colorado River.......

A few guidelines to consider: a) be exceptionally careful when coming across a carcass in grizzly country. I believe they were tracking a deer from the day before, and came across the smaller bear on the carcass. The general goal is to try to see the carcass from a distance before...

The big lakes on the Thelon can get pretty tedious, especially after spending six days on the larger Dubawnt Lake (81 miles long!). We entered the Thelon below Beverly Lake, but got to paddle the much larger Aberdeen Lake (61 miles). We only got windbound one day on Aberdeen--much of the rest...

Same here on the Dubawnt. They got pretty bad after a couple of weeks though, late July or so.

So what was your trip this summer?

Dubawnt River below the Gates of the Dubawnt, Nunavut.

Ahhhh, Stony Rapids and the Whitewater Inn! We were there over a month before you on our Dubawnt trip. Most of us flew there, but one of our party drove. We even flew in on the same Otter. When you were stormbound on Cree Lake (15 Aug), we were happily sailing our PakBoats (yes, Glenn, we...

For what it's worth, I installed footbraces in my Wenonah OC-1 using standard pop rivets 40 years ago, and they're still secure with no cracks despite some pretty traumatic usage.

I was just in Nelson for a couple of weeks. Hiked an urban trail that had scat and area closures. This was before they trapped them the first time. In Anchorage, grizzlies are just a way of life, with bears using the streams for fishing (usually) when people aren't using the trails along those...

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Visibility is key in human/bear conflicts (as is smell). It's pretty nice hiking in the Barrens when you can see several miles with no vegetation over 6". Hiking willow thickets in Alaska is a bit different when you can see only 5-10 feet--making lots of noise is your friend. Precisely--I...

Yep, that's pretty much what you have to do, whether it's camping in grizzly country or climbing/mountaineering (see my treatise on "objective" and "subjective" hazards in Glenn's climbing thread). Of course nothing is guaranteed (except eventually expiring), which the Banff incident shows clearly.

I was up backpacking in the Kootenays in B.C. a couple of weeks ago. I also paddled a bit on Kootenay Lake, since this is a paddling site!

It's been a busy bear year here in Montana: Woman and husband attacked Man attacked Woman killed And then where the bears lose: Bear shot Fisherman shoots bear Hunters kill bear Hunter kills bear There might be others I've missed.

But stuff still happens. An experienced couple and their dog were attacked in their tent and killed in Banff, and in a backcountry area. Backcountry campers killed by bear in Banff National Park were on multi-day trip, family says

Fast boaters pretty much have to do the stern backstroke eddy. The boats don't want to turn, and they have a great tendency to slice across eddy lines. I do love hanging out hard on a high brace on peel-outs, though, but not in my Wenonahs! My most recent eddy turns were in PakCanoes with a...

Sort of works for those of us with low testosterone, too.

I've had good success with Seam Grip--pretty tenacious stuff. I seal them upon new and it lasts for years.

I can see why no one else has been there. There's a lot of seracs hanging over you.

Thanks. Joe's is an interesting read too.