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I periodically re-read these trip reports they just get better the older I get. I wonder if on occasionally some young adult will show up at the school to thank the staff for a life changing experience? I remember a class that I took in college shortly after returning home from a military tour...

I have two: The White Birch & the Tamarack. Both are of trees of the north, beautiful, useful as firewood for warmth in the long northern winters, can be bent for sled runners & toboggans, greenwood spoon carving material. The White Birch sheds nice thin pieces of her bark for easy gathering...

Page 100 of Brian Back’s book ‘KEEWAYDIN WAY’ show how to tie a tumpline to a Wannigan using the tump knot. I have tumpped a duffle and a canvas bed roll. I tied them stacked together first then lashed them like in Backs pictures and illustrations with the tumpline. The load wasn’t at all heavy...

Great story, one that I remember reading long ago, but had forgotten all the details. I do remember Mick’s rememberance of “ Chick Smart, a marvel around a campfire. Never forget his planked squaretail….” I had to try planking a brook trout or square tail like my Grandfather called them. Fish...

Good stuff Robin, I enjoyed reading this interview, as I did reading Garrett Conover’s books.

These links to paddlingmag.com are not my cup of Lapsang souchong tea. If I wanted to read their fluff articles of semi-disguised advertising I would have them readily displayed on my favorites page next to canoetripping.com.

That was a humongous grayling, well done, well written day(s) in your life as a real canoe tripper. Thank you for taking us along on your adventure.

Gil Gilpatrick in his book about building stripper canoes had plans for a Grand Laker Maine Guide canoe that could be of some help. I would think building it full size would be an ideal boat for taking children on a long up river trip and float fishing your way back to the put in type trip (no...

The Grumman Sport Boat has a a cult following. I don’t have the foggiest idea how make plans from one but if you can, it may be what you are looking for. Mine is of course aluminum, it paddles, rows, motors and a friend in Duluth, Minnesota has one with optional sailing his. I don’t think it...

Kinda losing interest in this forum, but I look in every now and then out of habit. Don’t want to miss anything that a handful of my favorite posters, post. Anything Robin is posting is solid gold. So this morning with my coffee I rode the river with these folks again. Thank you Robin, for...

“Well, Gabby fallen off yer horse, an incapacitaten yourn own self is plumb sad, I ain’t a fixen to pack you back to camp, much less civilization. Ravens most likely pick your eyes out, so don’t worry about seeing all the critters that are going to turn your no good carcass into fertilizer right...

I received a Uberleben titanium twig stove at Christmas. I put it together once, put it back in the sleeve it came in, haven’t looked at it since. I’m thinking the name turned me off, or if I want a fire I want a fire that I can put what ever size wood I want on it. I do use and like my copper...

Boatman53…… I am interested in just about everything you do, not everything, just about though. Pictures are fine, you are in the top handful of posters on canoetripping.net as a writer and craftsman. It would be fun to see the sketches that you make prior to starting construction. They must...

Works of art, each and everyone. Behind every good student there is an even “GOODER” teacher. Great job Memaquay, you have given those kids a great gift and something that will be a remembered for a long time.

I really like my Hilleberg Nallo tent, not bomb proof, no tent is safe from a bomb. However it is weather proof no matter what the weather conditions are. Hilleberg makes solo tents that I have considered, I think I’d like the Akto. Not inexpensive by any means, but I justify the cost by...

I will be interested in your fly fishing adventures, especially ones that involve mud trout, speckled trout or brook trout. As a side note, it would be interesting to read about your journey from Iowa's corn to a location that is possibly a slice of heaven. A visit to L’Ance Aux Meadows has...

“This way I can still enter the hatch to get a cold beer.” Nothing better than cruising down the interstate drinking a cold one.

I watched the whole video, while drinking a pot it tea to keep myself hydrated on all those portages. They will have the memories of that trip to cherish the rest of their lives. Thank you Memaquay for sharing it with us.

miss Katie….. If you ever get over to Ely, Minnesota, go East out the Fernberg Road to Red Rock Wilderness Store to see if the sixteen foot Souris canoe fits your idea for a dream canoe. Not as cheap a as an old used Alumacraft, it it is half the weight. Every time I visit my friends in Ely I...

Jim….. Make sure you have appropriate placed tie tapes on the inside for hanging mosquito netting for bug season use. Great tent for spring and fall trips where there is a little frost on the pumpkin during the wee hours. It is kinda like sleeping in a reflector oven with the appropriate fire...