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This may not be helpful, but I make little tags, they say “clothes” or “jacket” or, for bigger bags, might list four or five things. Then I laminate them, and use a zip lock to attach the tag to the bag. The tags could be different colors, so a quick scan from 20 feet away lets you identify the...

Those are all beautiful!

I stopped at an outfitter in Whitehorse. The had small canoe paddles, which were for trip participants to sign. I thought about that, and decided I liked the idea, but that I didn’t need a bunch of little paddles. Instead, I bought bandanas in colors that I liked, and on each trip, I would...

I received my prize from Mike McCrea today. It’s beautiful! Thank you so much! Pringles

I used to live in that area... if you’re talking about the Sand River that flows into Lake Superior in Lake Superior Provincial Park. A colleague from symphony had grown up in the area, and he told that an “old timer” had told him about “shelves” or “floors” built into the trees. When the old...

This is actually about my house, not my shop. I don’t have a shop. I was commenting to someone the other day that I have very few Knick knacks, like most of my friends seem to. I have a bundle of sassafras’s sticks, with a nice ribbon. When people ask me, I tell them that they were native...

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Thank you to everyone who makes this forum work, and especially Mike McCrea for contributing! This is such a cool site! Pringles

You know you’re now my favorite author, right? You go interesting places, take wonderful pictures, and use beautiful words. Now, you have added “characters.” Everybody knows a “John.” Thank you for sharing this. Do you have any backpacking stories, too? ???? Pringles

Dang, that’s a good idea. I’d need more than one, but dang...

I love an oak-hickory climax forest. I’ve never gotten hit on the head with one, or any other body part for that matter. But the trees are gorgeous. We have neither where I live now, and I miss them, and white pines and maples and birch (from where I lived in Michigan) and sassafrass and cypress...

Dougd, we might have a contest for putting on the best show. Apparently the two women who had the snake show up were not bothered much, at least that’s the story I got.

I rented a canoe just off the Gunflint Trail a couple of years ago. The lady at the desk told her son to get me a canoe—an not the one with the snake. “THE SNAKE?” My brain said. “Sssssnaaake???” I really said. It turned out that two ladies had rented a canoe a day or two before and as they...

I’ve read a number of the Mad Trapper books, but not looked around for movies. I did see the Lee Marvin one. I‘lol have to go looking for more. I can’t imagine running around in that area in the winter, for days on end.

The Rat sounds like an interesting trip. I remember reading about the Mad Trapper of Rat River in my dad’s Fur Fish and Game, when I was a kid. I was stunned to learn we were paddling through where he had been caught. I looked up what I could about the man, but there wasn’t much. One of the...

PaddlingPitt, I did not. I’m a chicken. But I’m a chicken that likes to go on adventures. There is an outfitter out of Minneapolis that did a 3 week trip on the Porcupine, and I did that. There were 8 of us. It was one of the neatest experiences of my life, and I wouldn’t trade it for...

As a librarian, I’m so glad to hear you found a book you really wanted! We aren’t particularly quiet any more. I used to be a band director, and if you aren’t banging on a timpani, or blatting a trombone, I probably won’t notice you making noise. On the other hand, your exclamation means you...

I did from the bridge at Eagle River to Fort Yukon 10 years ago. About 5 minutes after the bridge fades from sight, things feel really lonely. Enjoy your trip!

I just looked and Boundary Waters says it's on temporary backorder. It sounds good.

You might wait until spring, or whenever you can get out, and use a few different sizes of paddles that you borrow from friends or a local canoe livery. Then you’ll be sure you have the right length.