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Took me most of the day to find where you moved my post to. BANNED BOOKS WEEK has little or nothing to do with Happy National………Day.

October 1-7 is Banned Book Week, I doubt any canoe tripping books are banned, however I’m pretty sure many of our lives were changed by books that have had that stigma attached to their names. So, Happy Banned Book Week everyone!!

I’m thinking that storm cookers (Kelly Kettles, Thermette, Ghillie, etc.) are made to be used as a stand alone, quick way to boil water for a cup of tea, coffee, hot chocolate or instant soup. Using readily available combustible materials near at hand. If you are going to put it on a campfire...

Sounds like you are living the dream. Enjoy it to the maximum, life is short, looking back on a life well lived is way better than looking back with regret of the things that could have been. Welcome to the camp, warm your hands around a cup of our camp coffee. ……..Birchy

Glad that your trip report popped back, I was feeling your frustration, then your relief. Looking forward to reading your Trip Report. B Birchy

Anything with oil in it will remove conifer pitch, I think. A Alaskan log home builder told me to use Mayonnaise. I did, it worked, most home have a jar of it handy when you need it.

Nice repair job. Not my two cents worth, it’s yours. Much cheaper that sending it to Duluth for repairs. Good on you. BB

woytek…… Welcome to the campsite, hold out your cup, let us fill it up with whatever we’re brewing. Sounds to me that you are on the correct path to enjoyment. Most anything you need answers to, I’m confident that someone on this forum will gladly fill you in, with others chiming in as needed...

After posting that I had met Walter Port, I looked for his obituary. I found one for Walter Port, not sure this is the one we are talking about. Walter C. Port born December 10 1907. Died January 28, 1994 in Bemidji Minnesota. Would be a little older in the early 30’s to be just out of high...

While going to college at Bemidji State, I met Walter Port, he worked in the Pharmacy store (called a drug store back then, it also had a lunch counter) in the photography section of the store. He remarked to me that he enjoyed seeing my canoeing photos that they developed for me. He told me...

Much more than those piddling things! You forgot to mention “The Plaid Prancer” gigs, taking a bunch of school kids on canoe trips year after year required a lot more courage & commitment than anyone on this forum has demonstrated. Speaking of this forum, we are all richer from his posts over...

I am full agreement with Memaquay, after all he is a real Canadian, in every way.

MyKneesHurt….. Amazon has it, named Maxi as is the one on Firebox site. $74, makes 5 oz. of coffee. When my wife goes with me I bring a Bialetti Moka Pot, a battery powered frother wand and half & half. Makes her happy, as the old saying goes, “Happy wife, happy life”.

I’ve been thinking about getting a twig stove, firebox was one of the stoves I looked at. I did enjoy his videos but, seemed like he spent a lot of time making dinner and puttering with the additional/optional attachments. I’m not a former chef so a bunch of that stuff would be wasted on my...

Try sitting in the bow seat backwards with some weight under the stern seat (I used to use rocks, water in gallon jugs, secured in a burlap sack or a pack so they don’t roll around) will make the canoe more even keeled, should make it handle bettter. I don’t understand why people that live...

Friends of mine in and around the town of Ely call Piragis, Piranhas, none shop there, I do go in to look at their books, make notes of titles that I later check out at home from the public library or order on line. Never spend any money to support them. Ely Surplus a few doors down the block...

Tsuga8……. If you never NEEDED a fire in the rain then probably you don’t know how truly lucky you must be. I never NEEDED a fire in the rain except for a handful of times. I won’t go into those times, but if you are tall and thin you may run into Mother Nature’s dark disposition called...

I have always lengthened or shortened my axe handles 28-30 inches (711mm-762mm) to make their length close to the same as the double bit cruiser axes I grew up using. For safety ie, hitting what needs chopping as opposed to whacking a leg with an under strike and preventing over striking which...

If I were you, I would complain to Fjallraven long and loud about that rain proof anorak. Nothing worse than rain gear that doesn’t work. The only two cases of hypothermia that I have personally seen, have been due to poor rain gear in cold autumn rain. Both cases were caught early enough that...

MyKneesHurt…….. That’s funny, I never thought of my Fjallraven anoraks as rain gear, only wind proof, never used their wax either, I wanted them to be semi breathable. I wear the ones I have most days in the fall, winter and early spring as a wind proof outerwear over appropriate for the current...