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Another option for paddling instruction in Wisconsin.

I have used these items to secure paddles, fishing rods, etc in the boat. They work well and are inexpensive. Made by a guy in Minnesota so I just buy them from him. They could easily be homemade.

This will have a big $$ impact on my 2 week trip to NW Ontario this year.

We always take a few bags of ready-to-eat cabbage salad mix on trips and use them in the early days of the trip. Cabbage holds up much better than leafy salad mix which goes slimy quickly.

I was given a light green headnet which I made usable by darkening the front of it with a broad tip black permanent marker to improve vision while wearing it.

Several times we have taken booze cruises by canoe in downtown Milwaukee on the river, stopping at riverside micro breweries. This very popular with power boaters on summer weekends, so we would go on weekdays.

I have encountered them on each backpacking trip to Isle Royale NP. On one trip my brother was determined to get some close in photos but the moose convinced him to hurriedly look for a tree to climb. At a safe distance I thought it looked quite humorous. His camera lying on the ground where it...

I paddled the Current Rv maybe 25 years ago during my daughter’s Spring Break in March for 3-4 nights. It was a real nice trip during which we saw an only a couple of fishermen. I remember passing canoe liveries with huge piles of aluminum canoes so we were glad we went when we did.

Give that guy his Pioneering Merit badge.

I am still waiting, almost all water here is still frozen after 2 weeks of well below average temperatures. But daily temperatures are warming so it shouldn’t be too much longer.

Blukanu - I have worked at the show 4 times in the past and all stock which you checkout thru the checkout area is Rutabaga stock. When you pay for stock at a booth that is that vendors stock. Once while setting up the show I helped Yakima employees unload a very large truck load of their stuff...

Wilderness Inquiry in Minneapolis runs inclusive trips for people with all types of disabilities even supplying personal attendants, if needed. I was on one of their trips to Lake Nipigon in NW Ontario in 2002 when we took out residents of a group home for a week.

You don’t have any 36’ do you.

Thanks for the update on the current political/environmental status in my favorite place. The last time I heard this much inside info on this topic was prior to 2018 when Uncle Phil was still actively following it. I will be real interested to hear what my long time Canadian paddling friends...

Further info on Phil Cotton, if you can find a copy Canoe & Kayak magazine June 2010 issue.

One final point about Crown Land camping permits and Uncle Phil. For many years he operated a seasonal business during summer with his wife (he was a teacher with his summers free). As I recall it was called Canadian Wilderness Experience. He ran canoe trips in Quetico for youth groups, scout...

Yes recped, you have it right. The Friends of Wabakimi (FOW) is the organization which Uncle Phil set-up to take over as the Wabakimi Project (WP) ceased operation after its final season in August 2018. Myself and 3 other long time participants were recruited by Uncle Phil as the first board of...

I still have my venerable SEDA jacket, purchased direct from SEDA during their annual holiday sale years ago. SEDA was sold long ago and the new owners dropped all products other than boats. And I will probably be picking up my brothers jacket since he seems to have retired from paddling.

This was what the guy was told when called by an NMR employee about the overdue fine. He told me he paid because he didn’t want to chance being denied entry. As I recall, he paid something like $160-170.00 to settle the citation. I asked why he didn’t get in contact with Uncle Phil who told him...

Snapper, you are probably talking about Valerie Fons, who was much younger than Kruger and joined him after his SIL dropped out, as I recall. For many years my wife and I would spend a week or two each summer on an island in northern Lake Michigan. Fons had moved there with her family of adopted...