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Somewhere on this board I posted about doing the Idaa Trail from Yellowknife up to Great Bear Lake and on down to the Mackenzie. We had our group planning meeting over the weekend. Logistics, vacation time, and travel expenses all conspired to nudge us into a different trip altogether. So...

About 20 years ago, Doug Doremus mailed me a newspaper article from Lubec Maine. In it Mike Krepner talked about his dream of forming a canoe trail he would call the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. I found a way to contact Mike and me & Doug considered following the route he and three others had...

Hoosier: One who hoosies.

I suppose the strainer story that I remember most was about some friends of mine from Oregon paddling the John Day River (I think?). Robin, who is a paraplegic, was paddling bow in a duckie when they piled up against a strainer. She was trapped, but with head above water and in no real danger...

Well, like I said before, we haven't nailed down the itinerary but I'm wrangling 8 weeks off for the trip. Which includes getting there and back from New England. I seem to recall it would be 3 weeks for the Idaa Trail alone. I'm glad I'm going with an experienced group of folks, since I've...

Conducts electricity? I wonder if you can rub the canoe on your shirt and stick it the wall like a balloon. Sure would be a great storage option.

From Yellowknife 6 of us go north, up river, following what is known as the Idaa Trail, which go over the height of land into the Camsell River down to Great Bear Lake. 41 named portages. Then we go west, and take the Bear (Great Bear?) River down to the Mackenzie at Fort Norman. If we get...

So I had my knee joint replaced and went through the namby pamby physical therapy that they prescribe. Two and a half months later I'm done with that and can walk around just fine. Can I toss a royalex boat on my shoulders and scamper a couple miles through the woods? No. So it's time for...

Yeah the article is down. But it'll be back soon! Mike, to avoid any portaging, you can put in on Johnson Pond in the North Maine Woods, paddle downstream to Allagash Lake and do a circuit of that lake (motors prohibited). Also if you want, you can stay at Loon Lodge in the same neck of the...

Voodoocanoe.com is up and running again. Some new trip reports, some old. I'll keep adding more as time permits.

I used to search minicell on Ebay and get a bunch of hits offering a pile of random pieces for next to nothing. Now all I can get is NRS prefab kayak butt-pads. Anyone have the secret code to get just bulk minicell offers?

Friggin MINT, right? Now I know 2 people who have one of these. You and me. Sorry the link doesn't work, I'm working on rebuilding my entire website. As far as the source of the image, it was some online archive having to do with either Seminole or Mikosukee (SP?) tribes of the Florida...

I was thrilled to find out my REI tent has a self healing zipper. I snagged it pulling my gear out through a small opening to keep the skeeters out. Zipped it all the way to one end, evened the two sides, zipped it back, and all better.

Saw 7 black bears in New Brunswick last week. Most were cuddly and little but that giant one that crossed the river in front of me was the biggest I ever saw... I don't worry about them unless I'm in an area that associates campers with food. But of course there aren't any grizzleys around here.

Ancient Portage Trails of New Brunswick: OK, stand in an old child's wagon. Grab a pole and push yourself down the sidewalk. Now go into the grass. Then push yourself through a hedge - not sideways, but end-to-end. That is what the alder-choked 23km Gordon Meadow Brook is like. The 2-mile...

I eliminated a couple of snot-nosed kids. Unfortunately they grew up, got bigger and started bringing their boyfriends. So that backfired.

I have figured it out. I can have the shuttle driver slide the metal key out of the fob and hide that somewhere, then take the battery out of the fob and leave that locked in the car. Then I can unlock the car, get in, and reassemble the fob. BTW Glenn, with a dead battery you can hold the...

I'll probably ditch my sail rig unless it's a coastal paddle. A lot of things, such as coolers, have parted from my list but I sometimes bring them if others are, because I'll end up carrying them at some point anyway. Stove is a Pocket Rocket, good for boiling water. Recent addition is a...

I'm about to fill the screw holes in the gunwales of my rowboat. Strictly because when I radius the edges with my router, the bearing will hit the hole and make a dimple. Thought about some sort of mini-fence attached to the router base, but then nah...

I have a pair of TW Specials - 18.5 feet and 58 lbs. in kevlar. Makes poling upriver much more pleasant. And yes it seems like such a radical idea until you own one. Looking forward to adding an 18.5' Bell Mystic to the collection in the spring. Kevlar #6: Yikes!