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Just to be contrary. This is a canoe TRIPPING site, right? Thelon River, Nunavut a couple of weeks ago. Day 36 of 42.

I think I'll portage that one. Dubawnt Canyon, Nunavut last month.

Lots of Hilleberg tents on Dubawnt Lake, Nunavut last month.

Any luck with the packrafters? I've heard they're good eating, though maybe a bit lean.

That was about the time I was paddling the Nantahala in my Mark IV (Romer helmet, Seda pfd). Ironically, I met Willian Nealy in southern Utah about 1980. He was camping in a state park where I got my showers (my place didn't have running water). I always loved his cartoons.

I fractured C7 in April 1999, and had a fusion and discectomy. Although I wasn't doing much paddling at the time (broke it backcountry skiing), I was skiing the next season, and doing lots of things I shouldn't have throughout the summer (glissading (!), travel in rough country). I'm sure youth...

That's great! We'll be headed up there in about three weeks. But we plan on being back waaaaaay sooner! I'm reading one of the participant's (Lanouille's) journal now, and have read the other two books. It's an interesting tale.

Another potential option: I had a Bending Branches Expedition Plus paddle that had their "RockGuard" a ways up the throat, presumably to protect from gunwale rub Expedition Plus. The extension was pretty innocuous, and much lower profile than anything mentioned. To be high tech and low...

I like your site better!

Ironically, Montana is clear. Where I'm headed in Nunavut/NWT has been getting inundated with smoke. Here's an excellent website with realtime smoke I've been monitoring: Smoke Map

I, too, referenced the wrong thread, thinking it was Pseudonym's. I guess we're even.

And then there was Thor Heyerdahl's opposite trip on the Kon Tiki--going from South America to Polynesia. There's way too much history, pre-history and theories for my feeble mind to process. Personally, I like to stay in sight of land.

I think he was replying to Pseudonym's other post regarding Into the Wild. The bus that McCandless used (and died in) was flown out of the Alaskan backcountry because a lot of people got in trouble trying to get to it.

This piqued my interest as the canoe was sailing in my old stomping grounds in Alaska. Hawaiian sailing canoe in Alaska Here's some info on the canoe itself: Hawaiian sailing canoe, and on Pacific sailing canoes in general Pacific sailing canoes. According to Dr. Wiki, they've been used for...

The Yukon/Alaska (and Siberian) moose are the largest. The Shiras is quite a bit smaller. Those are the only two I've been around. None are small!

Sorta what I did for almost 30 years (wildlife stuff, not impress).

There's one species (Alces alces) with a number of subspecies. A. a. gigas is the larger Yukon/Alaska moose. A. a. shirasi is the smaller Rocky Mountain type. And then there's A. a. andersoni for the Minnesota area moose. https://www.gbif.org/species/195657923

It appears that outrigger racing technique is quite different from marathon canoe. Watch this clip from the Au Sable Marathon, one of the preeminent marathons Au Sable Marathon. Paddles are held lower, less lunging forward, higher cadence, smaller blades. This doesn't seem to have changed in...

Huh, my intelligence is pretty artificial (fake?). I wonder why I didn't have the answers Alan provided?