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Robin, thanks for your hard work. If you decide to close the site, please keep my donation. If you decide to make a final appeal and pass the hat around one last time, I'll happily donate again.

No Title Thanks, Lepmeister, for posting. You're a fellow Hammock Forums member, I see. Here's my setup. It seems to get heavier every year...used to use a light gathered end hammock and small tarp (Edge tarp, actually) but am becoming less of a hiker and more of a camper and canoeist, so the...

Thank you, Robin, for that great report. I didn't have time to finish it over breakfast, so I copied it to my iPad reading list. There I was on a crowded subway in downtown Toronto feasting on the imagery both literary and photographic, and bystanders started to crane their necks to see what...

You should get the Order of Ontario for contributions to society. I'm serious. The work you guys do to keep the portages open in the Greenstone area is awesome.

And I just lost another post that took me twenty minutes to write...:-( I think I will just have to read from now on, and not participate. This forum is too buggy for me. Before I go, Yc, I'd love to see a pic of your 35lb wood canvas canoe!

Btw for some reason my posts lose all formatting when posted so it comes out as a a big ugly block of text. Thanks for your patience.

I'll Have to learn how to kayak first...I imagine it's not the same as double blading a canoe.

Kayaking to a brewery...now that's a tour I can get on board with!

How about this? A traditionalist might consider a canoe paddled by a double blade to be... A Cracked Canoe:

Alas, my long winded post was lost somewhere between preview and save. I'll précis it, removing all the style that made it a work of art. I'm a newb. Double blading works for me. It helps in headwind and in bracing, and that gives me confidence. It takes little skill to get where I want to go...

Correction: I meant "Y-shaped cross section" above, not V shaped. Now check out the Video...Brandon from Warbonnet Outdoors explains how he stakes out his tarp. At about 4:15 he uses a short term method of staking out to a Groundhog stake without any knot...interesting...anyway, that style of...

I carry stakes similar to MSR Groundhogs that I bought from the Hammock Forums store, and a few j stakes from MEC. I recently used the giant yellow Coghlans stakes because I couldn't bring metal stakes on a plane (wasn't that a movie?) and they are a pain in the butt. Of course, a tree is...

Great pics. I could smell the storm in those two photos! I'm happy you're posting these trips. I get to see a part of the country that is not often seen by folks down here in S Ontario/Quebec/NEStates. Ps I covet your boat. I've tried one with a cane style seat. Wondering what you think of the...

By the way, the site that hosts my trip photos displays a "buy" button under each one. I can't turn it off, and the terms of the site mean I don't profit from it (unless I switch to a really expensive membership for pro photographers). Hope no one is offended by that. I don't watermark my photos...

Thanks for your comments. @yellowcanoe I would hate to do Rod and Gun going upward! Louisa May be long, but it's not hilly. Re: battery. I kept my phone off except for the times when I was connecting to the InReach device to send messages. If I didn't get a reply within 20 minutes I shut it...

Well I went back to Algonquin for my seventh trip there. A good time was had by the mosquitoes. And by me, too. It's pretty much a repeat of a loop I did last fall, but accessed from a different lake. Had great weather with light winds, but also experienced one of the heaviest rainfall days in...

Another trip those kids will remember forever! Great work! My sisters, now in their 50s, still recall their trips with the outers club at Sir Winston Churchill CVI in Thunder Bay. They gained an appreciation for the outdoors, the ability to work together, the shrugging off of a lot of minor...

Thanks for posting. A great document of the state of the route. Great clear pictures. Very jealous of your canoe. Paddle on...

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone. Brad, I enjoyed reading your report, [Everybody read his trip report! It's well written, funny, and rings so true] and in did in fact go around the south side of that island to check out the hidden site. I can see that it is a good spot to slow down...

I loved your trip report. Lots of small details that paint a great mental picture. Knowing exactly the spot helped, too. Thanks for posting that.