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I bought a titanium canteen slash GI-style mess kit. It is unwieldy, loud, and was enormously expensive, but I've always wanted one. One of my pet peeves is 'new gear that requires its own infrastructure' and this definitely counts - the cup nests but the cup lid doesn't, so you need a pouch to...

I've paddled enough boats to know my knowledge of hydraulics as they apply to hull design is whimsical at best, but isn't the whole rationale behind Canadian-style paddling that you're heeling the boat to reduce surface area in the water and thus hull drag? Short canoes are just fun. I bought a...

I lived smack dab in Bear Heaven for a few years, maybe fifteen miles south of Shenandoah National Park. I'd hike maybe twenty miles a week on local trails and the AT, and springtime was bear time. August/September was rattlesnake time. I'd see three or four a week, mostly heading directly away...

I just picked up "Dangerous River" and the Nahanni journals thanks to this thread; so far DR is excellent. Thank you guys for the rec.

Thanks fellas. This is a little Pack I got for a song, and I would be loathe to lose it due to ignorance. Sounds like she'll be fine stuck up in the rafters somewhere. (Vinyl gunwales.)

I picked up my first Royalex boat this year, and while I'm happy to have it, now I'm stuck 800 miles from home with two canoes. The other is a skin-on-frame, and so I'm wondering which canoe will fare better being left in an unheated garage up in Vermont while I truck the other one back to VA...

I am old and creaky enough that a chair and big sleeping pad are in "necessaries" not "luxuries" at this point. - a hammock with a bug net purely for lunch naps, that's a big luxury. I have several but my favorite (which just this week was destroyed by a puppy) is (was) an ENO junglenest -...

Ha! I thought exactly the same thing.

I remember that picture very clearly from being a kid who wouldn't stay still in church unless I got to bring a book. I'd say that's closer to a clinker-built norse faering, romanticized for a modern audience, but the prow does look very canoe-ish.

I will go to the mat over the Smarties vs. M&Ms debate.

I have no idea. Most of the screen is blue, so Shades of Blue sounds correct. I'll edit the edit if people can actually see them.

I seem to remember that wulegessis was a Malecite/Passamaquoddy word, but thirty seconds on the internet attributes it to Malecite/Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abnaki/Wabenaki, these last two being sister dialects. (All four are variants of eastern Algonkin.) Steve Cayard says it's Malecite...

Farley Mowatt has long been a favorite, although he would be mostly central Canada.

@Alan Gage Because my dumb a$$ built myself a portage cart that fit way back under the stern thwart in a homemade boat, leaving most of the boat's weight hanging off my already wrecked shoulder, rather than in the dead center like I should have. Putting the 45-50lb weight of the bag in the...

I've used a single large Watershed for close to ten years now, coupled with a little thwart bag for all-day stuff. The only time I've regretted it is rolling a cane miles down a highway at low water two separate days last year, would have much preferred an actually backpack.

No affiliation, but PNW Bushcraft is another great waxed canvas vendor. They make a solid cook kid bag, with pouches sewn on the outside that hold lighter, spork, knife, whatever. They also make a really good folding foraging pouch. I wear one a lot - drop my nalgene, my computer charger, etc...

A few years ago I emailed the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia, to ask if they would show me some of the 90-some birch bark canoe models made by Edwin Tappan Adney they have in storage there. It's been long enough that I've forgotten the name of the extremely kind and helpful lady that...

+1 to thinking of it in terms of blade- and shaft-length, rather than overall length. I'm a bit confused as to how a paddle that works sitting would be too short kneeling. Kneeling brings your body closer to the water and lowers your shoulders; I'd think a shorter shaft will get the paddle up...

I pulled off the NFCT because the wildfire smoke was so awful last year, so I only did from Old Forge to Lake Champlain on that trip. I did make the canoe, I've done plenty of 100-200mile trips in them (different boats at different times). Made right, you get 80-90% of the performance of a...

Thank you @Glenn MacGrady and @Gamma1214 , I just x'ed out of it when I saw the login, I'll try again.