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Lots of interesting goings-on in your report. Thanks for sharing. The camp tools link shows wonderful stuff, but the paddles and all your research and work on the paddling blog...fantastic! So much interesting information about paddling culture. On the blog I see no link to "sales" of your work...

For some reason only a few of the photos (4 on the 2nd post), none on the first, are loading for me. Is it just my computer?

I really enjoyed your report. Couldn't keep my eyes off the Huron. Well, I did permit myself some discreet glances down the decks of the Jack Special... I'm glad your inaugural trip was fun!

Drew, Swift has some interesting offerings. I've been very happy in my Osprey. I use it for flat water paddling when my route involves long arduous portages. I, too, paddled tandems solo for many years, and still do, but dedicated solos have some real advantages. For a dedicated solo, the Osprey...

A real pleasure to watch you make my old favourite beautiful again. I hope you get good weather for your upcoming inaugural duo-in-solos trip. Happy paddling!

Bienvenue à bord, Tom! My family has strong ties to France, and you're the first French member I've come across. My wife and I paddled a little in the Herault and the Ardeche in 2002. Lots of passionate paddlers and boat enthusiasts here on this forum. We'll look forward to hearing about your...

Your piece captures well the euphoria felt at the start of a trip after a lengthy period of wilderness deprivation. Even a partner's clumsy foot kicking over one's cup of tea is easily forgiven. Well done, Heatherlynn, and thanks for sharing your writing.

The b*st*rds just came with a flatbed truck and loaded up my Richardson. Said if I had any real sense of "team" I'd give up my Peterborough, too.

Yes, our Southwestern Ontario Environmental Defence committee is organizing a massive boat-burning event at noon today on the front lawn of the town hall. Pressure's on from all sides that I show a good example to the community by donating my Richardson. I should have seen this coming...

Good report, Keith! Beautiful area. Any thoughts on coming north again this year? I think the Canadian calendar has this as the Year of the Moose! Thanks for posting.

Mike, like Marten, that one-month trip in Atikaki caught my attention! I'm planning on doing a 3-week Bloodvein trip this summer going in either at Red Lake, Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, or at Wallace in Atikaki. Marten with an "e" is from south of the border, and he's travelled extensively...

Odyssey, nice-looking stove, too, and incredibly light! Seems sad, though, to waste alcohol like that. I suppose it's not as bad as those misguided souls who smash full unopened bottles of champagne against the hulls of brand new ocean liners. Now THAT's wasteful!

Yes, Odyssey, but it also brings to mind Conrad's oft-quoted, but now somewhat clichéd line from "Dark-Hearted Flyfisherman" : "The symmetry, the symmetry!"

re: consequences of falling out of canoe with chest waders on Decades ago, wide-eyed innocent that I was__I hadn't yet heard of Pierre Berton's famous quip about a Canadian being someone who could make love in a canoe"!__green, dumb, but much more loveable than now__ found me on beaver ponds...

Karin, I'm happy to see my old favourite getting the makeover she deserves, and by someone as passionate about canoes as you are. Looks like you're doing great work. She was mine from 1995 to 2016. I paddled her many K's on the Sharon Creek reservoir, Fanshawe Lake, Boat Lake in the Bruce...

Hello Robin. Thanks for the work you do here. I've just sent made an e-transfer to your email account. I'm sending you a PM to give you the password to claim the funds.

In spite of some of the hurt feelings expressed in this thread__and hurt feelings are unfortunate, but difficult to pre-empt__the discussion contains some interesting dichotomies: amateur/expert, newbie/veteran, debating/peacemaking, opinion/fact, (subjective/objective truth), old/new, and...

That bat sure has a long-shafted neck. Maybe it's a Greenland bat.

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