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Dubawnt River below the Gates of the Dubawnt, Nunavut.

Ahhhh, Stony Rapids and the Whitewater Inn! We were there over a month before you on our Dubawnt trip. Most of us flew there, but one of our party drove. We even flew in on the same Otter. When you were stormbound on Cree Lake (15 Aug), we were happily sailing our PakBoats (yes, Glenn, we...

For what it's worth, I installed footbraces in my Wenonah OC-1 using standard pop rivets 40 years ago, and they're still secure with no cracks despite some pretty traumatic usage.

I was just in Nelson for a couple of weeks. Hiked an urban trail that had scat and area closures. This was before they trapped them the first time. In Anchorage, grizzlies are just a way of life, with bears using the streams for fishing (usually) when people aren't using the trails along those...

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Visibility is key in human/bear conflicts (as is smell). It's pretty nice hiking in the Barrens when you can see several miles with no vegetation over 6". Hiking willow thickets in Alaska is a bit different when you can see only 5-10 feet--making lots of noise is your friend. Precisely--I...

Yep, that's pretty much what you have to do, whether it's camping in grizzly country or climbing/mountaineering (see my treatise on "objective" and "subjective" hazards in Glenn's climbing thread). Of course nothing is guaranteed (except eventually expiring), which the Banff incident shows clearly.

I was up backpacking in the Kootenays in B.C. a couple of weeks ago. I also paddled a bit on Kootenay Lake, since this is a paddling site!

It's been a busy bear year here in Montana: Woman and husband attacked Man attacked Woman killed And then where the bears lose: Bear shot Fisherman shoots bear Hunters kill bear Hunter kills bear There might be others I've missed.

But stuff still happens. An experienced couple and their dog were attacked in their tent and killed in Banff, and in a backcountry area. Backcountry campers killed by bear in Banff National Park were on multi-day trip, family says

Fast boaters pretty much have to do the stern backstroke eddy. The boats don't want to turn, and they have a great tendency to slice across eddy lines. I do love hanging out hard on a high brace on peel-outs, though, but not in my Wenonahs! My most recent eddy turns were in PakCanoes with a...

Sort of works for those of us with low testosterone, too.

I've had good success with Seam Grip--pretty tenacious stuff. I seal them upon new and it lasts for years.

I can see why no one else has been there. There's a lot of seracs hanging over you.

Thanks. Joe's is an interesting read too.

100 years of Prospectors

I don't have Peter's diary, but I have Joe Lanouette's notes. Peter was certainly a hero, and saved several lives. Let me know if you find it.

I think I listed before two books on a 1955 river tragedy on the Dubawnt River in northern Canada, where the leader, Art Moffat, died of hypothermia following dumping in a rapid. This tale was written up in two books, Death on the Barrens by George Grinnell, and Barren Grounds by Skip Pessl...

What route were you trying that hasn't been climbed since? I could see Mt. Blackburn from near my house when I lived in Alaska.

I've been climbing since about 1980, and still do--ice, rock, mountains. Of course I've slowed down (now 65), but I still get out, less so primarily due to a lack of good partners and just waning interest (primarily due to a lack of good partners--partnership is a big thing with older climbers...