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I don’t particularly like the bushcraft movement and YouTube videos where some guy tells you how to build a bug out kit in his mothers basement from military surplus, then takes you out to some patch of green space, to fumble around with it trying to show you how it all works in case of the...

I have slept in quite a few tents in my life, from lousy pup tents to big canvas Quonset hut contraptions. I like Whelen’s lean-to’s and wall tents with wood stoves. However, above tree line (altitude or latitude) nothing beats a Hilleberg tent. My own is the Nallo four person which is okay for...

Today I received in the mail a most wonderful gift. It is a a vintage Woods Pack, with the leather axe pocket on the left side. I have for years lusted after one of these packs, now I am the recipient of one from our friend and co-member of the forum, Memaquay. Just wanted to publicly give him...

I have read his books from the University of Alaska Library, Fairbanks campus. Lesser know than some other authors but just as insightful in the joy of outdoor living.

I just came home from picking up a new Gordon Setter bird dog pup in Culver, Minnesota, which is 15-20 minutes out of Duluth. While waiting for the pup to get old enough to to fly, as carry on luggage and to get a health certificate, I visited both Duluth Pack & Frost River Pack stores. My...

As you realized, this is a great place for information. Take all you need from a diverse bunch of old grizzled gezzers and new high tech kids. I had been a lurker for a long time prior to joining. Very glad I did, as I have made many great friendships over the years. As Jim said above, welcome...

You guy’s use a Strap on? Hhhmmmmm…….

Gamma……. That’s just how the drug dealer gets you hooked, little free sample, next thing you know you are on some skid row creek bank sleeping under your canoe. Don’t take a taste of that kool-aid. There are probably enough of us old fossil/gezzer types here to form a support group if you need...

Hopefully you didn’t spit that gob in your mouth into the lake, that’s what it looks like you’re about to do.

I dug out my canoe packs this afternoon, my #3 from 1968 showed nothing. A lesser used #3, that was given to me by an old college friend, had faint moose head with MONARCH above in an arc. I then looked at a #2 that I have, it has the moose head, the MONARCH above it and below the moose head the...

Mr. MacGrady…… Don’t think either one of us will make it to the age to challenge that record. ………Birchy

Jim…… Looks to me like a really sun & rain bleached Monarch model of a Duluth Pack from back a few different ownerships ago. They were made with 18 oz canvas with some other details, which I can’t remember (extra stitches?Double bottom?). That’s what my 1968 one is, but mine has faded to a...

“The Maine Woods Pack” thanks to Hank D. Thoreau for the inspiration or “Art D-eluxe Pack Company”. I am starting to skim coinage from my retirement account to my must have one of those packs. My now discontinued Duluth Pack Company, Northwoods Pack (their version of the Woods Pack) is...

tketcham…… Lynx are good, nice white meat, you just don’t need Jimmy sitting across from you, as you take that first tentative bite. Jimmy of course let out a big MEOW. I have eaten it many times since. ……BB

I knew two guys that built a birch bark canoe with only the book THE BARK AND SKIN BOATS OF NORTH AMERICA as a guide. I couldn’t find my copy this morning, I would guess there are plenty of them in used book stores. Minnesota Public Television has a documentary about some white guy teaching...

Thanks Erica, I have big hands, IPhone has small keyboard, have edited out the 8 replaced with the proper 9. ……BB

Just dumb not to wear one. Worse case scenario, make it easier to recover the body.

Stan Rogers died June 2, 1983, while helping other passengers get off an Air Canada aircraft that made an emergency landing in Greater Cincinnati Airport in northern Kentucky because of a on board fire. First heard him on the PBS radio show the FOLK SAMPLER many years ago singing his FIELDS...

Not my cup of Lapsang Souchong. I did like the fact that they used NORTHWEST PASSAGE song lyrics, “through a land and so wild and savage….”. A really good song by a great singer song writer, Stan Rogers. Seems they tried this once before and had to scratch. At least with modern communication...

Pretty sure that # 3 pack sack is going to look just great sitting amidship in that canoe. Thanks for showing us & looking forward to more insight into your adventures.