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    More options for your axe, some of which you might find useful or perhaps not....

    Time for an old thread renewal. BTW, here's an axe that's been repurposed, head, handle, and all. Not sure I approve. The repurposed adze however I won't lose sleep over. This establishment BTW is a fine pizza restaurant. It's just the back door and exterior that resembles a creepy movie.
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    Video, of a guy tipping a canoe over in the middle of a Minnesota Lake

    My vocabulary just got bigger. I'm having a good day.
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    Video, of a guy tipping a canoe over in the middle of a Minnesota Lake

    I so much want to google doofenschmertz but it took me days to correct the algorithym, I ain't going down that rabbit arse again.
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    How many paddles do you bring on a canoe trip?

    Just the three paddles on our tandem trips.
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    How is your winter so far?

    March 4th. While spring equinox is still days away, spring weather arrived days earlier.
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    World’s Longest-Running Study On Happiness Has Great News For Wilderness Paddlers

    Low strife=Happy life. Hardly surprising, especially given that we are building our lives on healthy relationships. This doesn't preclude individualism and spending time solo, but the baseline for happiness socially is an individual having found and formed a comfort zone somewhere with someone...
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    Bannock Sacrilege

    I call Sacrilige clickbait. lol. Merely taking a shortcut doesn't suggest a sin as much as it does a convenience. Bisquick still contains the basics of bannock, so no big deal I'd say. An off-the-shelf biscuit mix isn't outside the realm of modern day simplifying. Kinda like coffee creamer. Or...
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    Video, of a guy tipping a canoe over in the middle of a Minnesota Lake

    This is why I don't pollute my YT feed with nutjob algorithms. lol. After a brief peek at this flat-world saint my YT has become filled with Sportspal motorboating hell-drivers seeking Godly redemption. Ha. In case you didn't notice the world is full of shameless egotrippers. They either want...
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    Do you bring an ice chest or cooler?

    Who needs a cooler?! If you don't like your beer at room temperature then it's a sign you're drinking the wrong beer. Likewise, never ever corrupt uisge beatha with ice. Maybe a dram of water on the side. But if you really need to cool down your drink you're only surrounded by a natural source...
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    One thing I will never do again is . . .

    I will never refuse a good friend my last pair of clean gotchies on a trip. That should never happen. I still feel bad about that. I should've gone commando for the sake of a friend in need thing.
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    3 Minutes with a Maine Guide Video Episodes

    3 enjoyable and informative minutes per episode. https://www.youtube.com/@3_Minutes_With_a_Maine_Guide/videos
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    3 Minutes with a Maine Guide - Gear - A stern wannigan

    Here is a traditional wannigan with a difference.
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    Care & feeding of cold handle frying pans

    I stripped our cast iron pans either by a) baking them at high heat on a bbq, or b) soaking them in a solution of coarse salt and cleaning vinegar. Either way you'll end up with raw metal. Then I seasoned them with repeated wipes of grapeseed oil on the heated metal followed by cooling. Over...
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    Cold Hauling

    Any clinging salty moisture would be bad IMO. Cold and dry should be okay, more or less. I wouldn't wipe it down (scratches?) Like your car. Maybe blow it clear with a (clean dust-free) leaf blower? Feather duster? lol. Or maybe just give it a quick rinse to flush off the salt brine. Air dry. On...
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    Cold Hauling

    and the saga continues
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    What to do with a month's worth of PTO?

    re: Marshall loop 2 cents. Each and every camp the first few nights are worth layover days; Marshall, Grip, and Summit lakes, Kap R too. Each evening I thought to myself "I could stay another day or three here." Although my trip was an abbreviated one in which we took out at the (Ogoki?)...
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    Finds, Relics, and Evidence from The Past

    In The Lonely Land Sigurd F. Olsen wrote "...Then he dug with a sharpened stick in a wide crack beside the fireplace and pulled out a great chunk of moss that had filled it. He laid it on a shelf of clean limestone and began to comb it carefully, picking it apart bit by bit. He was deeply...
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    2024 starting off with a "spam bang"

    I am such a sucker for your clickbait Glenn. I read your thread heading and thought Oh Wow! Glenn's shooting canned meat out of a cannon! Must be a McGrady New Years tradition? But no. Oh well. sigh Keep up the good work Glenn. And thanks.
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    Unfulfilled Tripping Dreams?

    It's hard not to read your OP Pitt and feel discouraged, but I'll try. Yes, one type of adventure may be fading, but many more may be waiting. Sorry if that sounds patronizing but I really do believe it. So should you. Aside from twerking (imagine the possibilities!) the old paddle and portage...
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    Of beavers, wolves, and forested wetlands.

    I think it all comes down to our ever controling humanistic land use policies from the paleolithic to the present. We steer, subjugate, and steward what we can, either for an economic or ecologic benefit. They seldom agree. Piney summarizes it very well when he sweeps it all into neatly fitting...
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