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FarOut app is the go-to, I think. It does cost money, I hope someone chimes in with something open-source and/or free. You can download what you need and use your phone in airplane mode. https://faroutguides.com/

Yuuuuuuuuup. I did the math once and it would be cheaper to move to Maine for a summer and knock around with found materials than it would be to pay for a 1-on-1 class. (That was pre-pandemic math, though, so who knows these days.)

Building a bark canoe has been a dream of mine for a long time, so I'd better go ahead and start planning on doing it. Does anyone know the name or number of a birch bark builder who teaches one-on-one, or even in small groups? I'm in Virginia, so just going out and knocking around with birch...

Virginia in July/August is gonna be very hot and humid if you're used to Maine summers. The Upper James is a good sixty-mile run, but it is not remote. The river parallels train tracks and roads for most of it, and some camping spots are frequented by car campers fishing. In July it'd be pretty...

This is always a great time. I got to go in 2015 when I was living in Maine, and I've always wanted to go again. 'Shcraft on!

my smoke tracker...

Geese have no sense of humor. I passed by a bunch the other day and said, "good afternoon, gentlemen"; then, because there were certainly ladies in the group as well, I followed with "I beg your pardon, I didn't mean to mis-gander you". Not one of them laughed.

that is if I recall Middle Saranac early in the morning. I'm stuck in Vermont trying to figure out how to get back on the water, but yes, still on the NFCT.

It's certainly a perishable skill. I have to review my map-and-compass stuff every so often, or it goes out of my head. One of the casualties of maps is that, increasingly, it's easier to see wherever you are as the center of the world.

I'm a guy who has spent about seven billion dollars on fancy knives and gear, leaves it all at home, and takes a swiss army knife. I carry a Mora Kansbol and a little folding saw, those being historically more useful to me than an axe, but I think I've used the saw twice and the kansbol zero...

The watersheds are bombproof. I have 2, a 60ish-liter backpack and a smaller 20-ish liter duffel. I only wish for a sturdier, padded hip belt on the backpack. Barrels (and their attendant nice, padded, burly carrying systems) seem like a nice easy way to go, but I would be hard pressed to spend...

I hate to do it, especially as I'm relatively new here, but I've got to back out on buying. Sent you a text and a PM. -MKH

I will buy this, if it's not already spoken for. I'm floating around NY looking for something to do for a day or so.

Please do! It may be relatively economical to make a low-quantity run of 20 or 30, I'll see what's available or achievable.

I'm on the NFCT with a history of lung problems, it'll probably push me off the Trail for a while. I did Old Forge - Plattsburg last week, and now I'm sitting in a roadside library in New Hampshire, where I thought I had outrun the smoke, but turns out there's a local storm system keeping it at...

Hello all, I'm paddling a skin-on-frame through a chunk of the NFCT, and since I'm 'unsupported' in being a solo paddler with no friends in the area and an antique flip phone, I'm giving my shoulders a break every few days by trying to bounce my truck up the trail as I go, so if some...

You're right, it's been fifteen years since I read Kon-Tiki. I knew he was working on a doctoral on Easter Island when he noted the apparent similarity in carving.

^ There's an interesting book called Voyage of the Manteño, by John Haslett, that posits that Polynesians used a tactic of sailing into a trade wind (or whatever they'd call a constant, steadily-directional wind) so that if food ran out, people got bored, what have you, they knew the direction...