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Can't see the video, Glenn.

My knees hurt.

Lot happened this year, but not a lot of paddling. This is last year on the NFCT somewhere in New York.

I use either a ziploc bag or a aloksak in the appropriate size. They usually live in a thwart bag, so no worries about getting crushed.

At least they knew enough to paint the inner bark on the outside of the boat on this one...

I paddle skin-on-frames, so I carry artificial sinew in a little sewing kit (for a potential big tear), and two small tubes of UV sealant with an assortment of Tenacious Tape patches. All that stuff migrated over from my backpacking gear and works very well.

Canoeing I don't worry too much about an extra five pounds or so, backpacking, yes indeed I do, so I've got a range of multitools. I stick to Leatherman; the smallest effective pair of pliers is my real criteria, and generally a Juice (4oz) or Squirt (<2oz) gives me a useable (if not...

Hello all, I have a friend in northern Vermont selling a strip-made ADK guide boat, and I thought it wouldn't hurt to post a link to it here on this site. You can check out the ad here. I'm not involved in the sale but thought I'd help get the word out for him. If you are interested, or have...

Packit Gourmet is the best I've tried, I get meal boxes when I can afford it. Momofuku noodles are great. Alpine Aire I tried once, it wasn't for me. I generally take lenty of dried fruit and jerky. Stroopwaffles. Nuun water supplements, more just for variation than for minerals.

Boats marketed to diverse paddling conditions, but also diverse paddler's skillsets. Anybody can hop into most Wenonahs and have a good time.

eh, it's twenty bucks. I used to belong to an internet forum that did frequent and often very generous giveaways, in which interested parties would say "I'm in" or some variation and their post number was their 'raffle ticket', but by and large the giver and his friends would just pick the...

I have very strong opinions on this. I'm picky enough about coffee that I'll bring my cook kit into hotel rooms instead of drinking hotel coffee.(Incidentally I also found out I was autistic this year.) I have one coffee cup at home that doesn't leave the house and gets used every day...

I just drove from central VT to Saranac Lake yesterday. New York had streams and rivers blown out, but I didn't pass anything too bad. Vermont was nervous; they had traumatic flooding this time last year and prepped up as well as they could. From what I hear the flooding stopped at "very bad"...

I carried a canoe on a topped truck for years with just four foam pads and two bolt-on webbing loops under the hood. Hooked bow and stern handholds to those loops up front and into voids on the rear bumper. I was carrying a 15-foot canoe.

@CaptainOllieWest The virolock was added in the 50's, but it wasn't unti 2000 that it was altered to allow the knife to lock the blade in closed position; Boatman could have had a pre-2000 knife in his pocket.

Opinel makes a kid's folder with a rounded point; he can cut, but not stab. They're cheap, decent steel, attractive, and light, which is exactly what you want for a knife that's about to get lost. It's a 7, not a 6, called the Outdoor Junior. 20-ish bucks. Mora also makes a kid's fixed blade...

Music was life until a few years ago. I played in enough bands that I'm mostly deaf in my early forties. Today I listened to Slipknot, Jeff Beck, Hildegard von Bingen (or rather the music she wrote), and Missy Mazzoli. I don't take music on outdoor trips but occasionally I'll take a HiFi Walker...

Dang. I was just out there...

I'm sure I've had Lyme at some point. The testing is dicey at best; a negative result doesn't necessarily mean you don't have it or haven't had it. (The science behind that is beyond me.) I have one friend with alpha-gal, which doesn't bother her too much, and had another friend so deeply...

These kind of threads are one of my favorite parts of this website. I never owned a canoe until maybe ten years ago, when I tried to build myself a platt monfort skin-on-frame design. It was awful. I didn't trust the tiny dimensions of the gunwales the plans called for, and so I overbuilt it and...