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Very nice video and it encourages me to try poling, once the local river thaws out. The Nashua looks very much like my home stream the Root River just north of Racine WI.

Nice looking canoe. It has a nice used looking patina. Maybe keep it as is.

In a recent thread I posted regarding the boat rental trend at the nature center where I am a volunteer. Kayaks are by far the most popular rental, especially the SOT variety - much easier to get in/out of and almost no capsize incidents. So for the general public, this type of boat makes the...

Worth a try. And as Jm suggested above, mods could enforce restriction on posting within the dedicated forum, being responsive to member inquiries and monitor for posts unrelated to our interests.

I have used Chota Quetico Trekker boots, which are no longer made, replaced by a newer version at a higher price. As far as I know, these boots are only available through Piragis in Ely MN. I settled on these boots for the ankle protection and support which became important as I participated in...

I have a nice lightly used Wenonah Wilderness in T-Formex that I acquired about 5 years ago. I bought it intending to use it on the rocky streams of Michigan’s UP but have yet to do so. I am gradually turning into a base camper I guess.

BF, you sound like me. The older I get the more I find some things I read in the past are mostly, if not, all new to me. I have taken to marking my completed reads with my name/initials and a date.

My sentiment exactly. I always enjoyed the walk back while portaging.

This is the approach I have been using starting in the spring each year to prep for trips. I carry a 60# OT Penobscot RX around the local nature center from March to the paddling season, working up to 1/3 mile. I began doing this in 2017 to condition myself for a 3 week river trip. Along with...

Interesting story. I have paddled parts of the river during spring and fall. Summer sees the southern part of the river busy with many recreational paddlers, especially on weekends. Lots of places to camp on islands and state owned shoreline. In the spring while paddling with the flow going...

70-80 beers! Man, you would have fit right in with the old Wabakimi Project crowd. Unfortunately, Uncle Phil never would have allowed the beers - too much weight even for overburdened WP trips. We had to make due with bourbon and/or whisky while looking forward to the Saturday resupply flights...

My personal preference is definitely canoes although I have used kayaks in the distant past as well as a bit in the past decade. In the 1970’s I was introduced to fiberglass Phoenix kayaks which I believe were made in Tennessee, as I recall. We used them as down river boats and they were great...

I think it depends on the province you will be in. On an August trip those of us from the states had to get Crown Land camping permits with a daily fee/person (about $10/day after conversion to USD) and our Canadian friends didn’t need them. We were in NW Ontario on Crown Lands. In 2023 I was on...

Superb technique which makes it look so easy.

I keep all my meals real simple, especially on my solo trips. The heaviest item for lunch would be peanut butter on Wasa Bread crackers (my long fav Ryecrisp is no longer available) w/jelly or honey. I start watching the peanut butter/honey/jelly jars at home to try to save out the partials with...

This is why I learned to like chaperoning BWCA trips with my wife’s church youth group. I would always take the group which was all high school aged guys. Simple challenges such as “who can take this pack and a canoe (they were all aluminum boats) all the way through the portage?” Very quickly...

This story reminds of my rescue of ALL of the Wabakimi Project section sheets used by Uncle Phil on his project trips 2004-2018. Each trip had 2 sets of maps, one for each boat. To save space and weight (?) Phil cut off the borders/legends of each map. The final year of trips was 2018. Phil died...

I appreciate all the responses and various perspectives. After 50+ years of camping/canoe camping this trend is new to me and three different groups I have tripped with in recent years.

I have been going to Sylvania for 50 years. Consider it to be Boundary Water lite. It is a relatively small area, something under 20,000 acres. It was formerly a longtime private hunting/fishing club so it is unique in that it is one of the few virgin never logged forests in the Upper Midwest...

The last several years the groups I travel with have been taking individual tents. On the trip in August on crown land west of Wabakimi, we had five tents for six people. In the Wabakimi area this can be problematic since there are few campsites and many of them are small. We spent most of our...