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Robin…… I am looking forward to seeing how you like the smaller campfire tent. I would get the optional canvas with the stove pipe hole for enclosed heating with your stove. I have thought long and hard about buying one myself. Decided that for me, too heavy, too many tie outs to keep it upright...

I took a trip to see Alaska after a stint in the military and then college on the GI Bill. Liked what I saw, so I stayed. I have taken a month long vacations to other areas mostly in late September & October to visit family & friends. I do not plan on leaving, I have watched friends, co-workers...

I would rent a place in the area prior to setting down roots in a new area. Get a feel for the area, the people, the political leanings, what passes for local entertainment and ease of getting the kinds of groceries that you prefer. Get a good feel for what the area, does it fit your lifestyle...

I fly fish almost exclusively with cane (bamboo from Tonkin, China) some nearly a hundred years old. Mostly eight footers, some fairy light weight seven or seven and a half footers. Also use in bigger water 8.5 & 9 foot rods, for the bigger species I sometimes target. Very pleasant to immerse...

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“Happy trails to you”! As RR used to sing to us as kids.

Sad news indeed, I’ve lost a couple of dogs to cars. Am paranoid about it happening when walking near traffic, teaching heel, and using a leash when on or near the road. Big ten acre fenced in area keeps them happy with room to not feel confined and keeps strays from visiting. My condolences, I...

My mother used to say, to her children, “Always give credit to where credit is due.” So, that said, a bunch of you deserve some credit for explaining to us what I feel is the true essence of canoe tripping. Kudos to the OP, credit is certainly due in creating your best post ever.

BWCA66…… We hat happened to that big black and white dog you used to canoe with?

Pickaroon is what we called that tool. Ours had a much longer handle used for moving pulp logs around on a sled or pulp truck. In use in Northern Minnesota, when pulp cutting was still manual labor not totally mechanized as it is today. I did spend some time in a US Forest Service camp. One of...

CANOETRIPPING has turned into OHWOEISME.com If you can still get out and walk, walk to a nearby park. Find someone of your mental capacity, challenge them to chess or checkers to while away your dotage or dimise. That’s what I have done. Base camp somewhere, in your back yard is better than...

Looks like he’s completed his trip. Will await the trip report to fill in “The rest of the story!”

Back in my college days, in the BWCA, I found a Maytag cast aluminum washing machine lid. Back in those days, they were coveted for use as camp fire griddles. They worked great for frying fish fillets, burgers and pancakes. Slid into a sack to keep soot off other gear they formed a nice big flat...

Any Speckled Trout in those streams that he is traveling on or passing by?

I am enjoying going canoe tripping vicariously, never thought I would. Photos of the places he is at or passing add another dimension. I can almost smell the campfire smoke and taste that breakfast, poured myself a cup of coffee, gorged myself on fillets of pickerel (aka walleye or in...

The knife scars I have are mostly on my left hand from me being somewhat careless. The only one on right hand (dominant hand) is from a non-locking folding pocket knife that folded when trying to drill a hole in a wooden spoon handle was making. If I would have had a locking blade or better yet...

You are going to love sleeping in your hand crafted lean-to. Nothing better than an open tent with a view, even if the view is a just a campfire. Some of the best memories I have are frosty autumn nights, spent in a Whelen Lean-to with a fire out front, with some stacked lengths of wood to...

For camp cups I have been using a couple of double walled handless Hydro Flask mugs that hold 10 oz one is shorter, little larger in diameter with straight sides, the other which I prefer is taller, narrower shaped like a wine tumbler. Alternatively on sit around camp or in a canoe fishing...

My grandfather told me that his grandfather had told him that, “There wasn’t anything good about Lake Erie except abject misery.” That ancestor had two ships that carried freight & passengers on Lake Erie back in the days of sailing ships. Both were lost in storms. Took his family to Lake Pipen...

I bought a bunch of dog mushing clothes from him when he and his wife were making them along with their line of canoeing gear, when they were based out of Grand Marais, Minnesota. I still wear some the cold weather gear in the winter, it’s still warm and looks like it was just recently made...