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I remember fondly the day Doug D unveiled the Campmor Reflector Oven. He cooked nothing more than store-bought frozen bread dough, but Oh, it was the tastiest thing to ever enjoy around the campfire. Just ripping off gobs of steaming fresh baked bread and scarfing it down. That was a long time...

I've nearly worn out my Canadian Boat Walker, which is what is was called back in the 90's when I bought it. I use mine for multi-mile portages on old logging roads and paved shoulders. I like the 16" wheels and the high ground clearance but the 16 pounds is the definition of irony when you...

I picked up a couple of ZREs when Millbrook Boats had a sale. I have to admit though, the discount evaporated when I picked them up at a brew pub half way between us. By coincidence I just read this morning an article by Cliff Jacobson in defense of the bent shaft for tripping. I have always...

My 1977 book titled Canoeing, put out by the American National Red Cross, has designs for a rowing rig together with a sliding seat. I always meant to build on and try it out. Maybe I will, thanks for the inspiration!

You might try using a block plane with a severely shallow cut. A freshly sharpened block plane.

If it's possible, I leave parked at the local Police station. It also helps to know the local Game Warden, who seems to provide a forcefield around it. Other than that, I just don't worry about it. My next trip is up the East Machias and down the Machias. The local outfitter says just park...

Of course I saved the poles. That remark about bird netting was prescient - my daughter has laid claim to them for her garden.

I just hurled a Eureka Alpine Meadows in the trash over the weekend. I had three old tents out in the yard, testing for water tightness. The Alpine Meadows was as good as bird netting, except that a tent made from bird netting wouldn't smell so musty inside. I did save the newer...

I have a fair amount of friends who regularly invite me on whitewater trips, but the closest thing I have to a whitewater boat is my royalex MR Explorer. A forgiving well-rockered boat would fit nicely in my quiver.

Nice job on the outfitting. I'm still trying to get over two guys tripping in one. I have one in the porch rafters that I set up for tandem, basically the stern seat became the bow seat and I added another seat at the opposite end. The kids were about 15 last time we brought it camping and I...

Yesterday, a $100 canoe popped up in FB marketplace. It was a "Mad River whitewater boat". It was posted 39 minutes earlier. I sent him a message but I guess I was too late. Today it's back up for $300 from Keene NH. At least the guy was able to ID it as an ME. He also mentioned it needed...

So can you glue the overlap at the tip or will it fuse together when heated?

Don't know if it will be the next trip, but I have begun the planning for taking the family on the Great Glen Canoe Trail. Basically across Scotland from sea to sea.

Hubbardston MA.

Harking back to the very first post in this thread, I have an Old Town Pack Solo stowed in the porch attic behind the air conditioner, window screens, my hoards of roughcut butternut and cherry, a Sawyer solo go-fast of some sort, the trunk full of dress up clothes, the oversized toychest full...

Please don't shoot me and dump me in the Hudson, but I am looking at paddling the Maine Island Trail in a "sea canoe". There. I said it. Anyway, the coastal environment is indeed fragile in many areas and so a lot of the islands don't allow fires, some allow them below the high tide line and...

Well that's 3 folks I know who have done that river. It has been on my bucket list for at least 20 years but somehow the time is never right. My tripping partner took his girlfriend poling up it in a freak high water spell in July. If you have zero commitments and can drop everything at...

Too funny! Perhaps I've been overthinking a bit. I wonder if my neighbors will suspect where their lids got off to...

Who here doesn't like to sit around the campfire after a day of paddling? A recent trip down the Penobscot River Paddle Trail got me thinking about how more and more campsites are restricting campfires. In this shoulder season, sunny days are often warm and pleasant, but when the rain moves...

I have had quite enough of camping on boulder fields, thank you. Northface VE25 4 season tent, because we were spending a month in the arctic. Guess what? The arctic was on fire and it was generally in the 90's every day and through the night too.