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@Keeled Over , I am envious! Newfoundland is one of my favorite places in the lower 48 and Canadian provinces. I've been up there twice, though it's been a couple of decades since I was last there. Hopefully not much has changed. Some thoughts and suggestions: 1) You'll need that month...

I haven't done much solo paddling, but I do most of my hiking solo, and occasionally backcountry ski solo. Most of my hikes include significant amounts of bushwhacking and I navigate solely by map, compass, with the occasional assistance an analog altimeter. I enjoy hiking with one or two other...

To be pendantic, a war machine is not freedom. Rather, at its best, it represents the defense of freedom. At its worst, it represents imperialism. The sound of freedom are the chants of a march protesting the actions of our government. The sight of freedom is a church, a synagogue, and a mosque...

Not millions, but hundreds of billions, with the whole program, including operations and support, costing well over $1 trillion. The cost per plane is about ~$80 million. If you work and live around Burlington, Vermont, it can be awful. The deafening roar is extremely disruptive. You can't...

Unless there is a specific reason to believe otherwise, I wouldn't assume that it was closed in May for anything other than flooding or repair. Both I'd think would be likely in May. When we did the Moose in August 2022, the road was flooded and the attendant at Attean Landing advised us to park...

Awesome! That's a great location for a child's first trip. I love the idea of giving your kids their own frying pans and letting them cook their own food. Last summer I took my son on his first canoe trip and we paddled from the Lake Kushaqua dam through the Seven Carries to Little Clear Pond...

Burlington, Vermont. If you like the outdoors, it's the best place in the U.S. to live. If you want to paddle, ski, hike, sail after work, there's all of that 45 minutes or less from downtown. Need a dose of a real city: Montreal is 1.5 hours away, Boston 3.25, Quebec City 4.5, New York 5.5...

Falling trees are more fearsome than black bears, but their danger had never been in my mind until a handful of incidents with a short time period: Adirondack guide Lynn Malerba was killed by a tree falling on her tent, a large tree fell on a calm day missing one of my brothers by mere feet as...

Likewise, I use a list. (Lists are how pilots and surgeons prevent simple mistakes of omission.) I start with my base template (attached—feel free to use and adapt), and for each new trip make a trip-specific copy. On the trip-specific copy, I customize, adding sheets for each trip member...

Correct. The bottom three photos are of a site further downstream on the Lake.

@Glenn MacGrady, is this the same site? (We stopped here for lunch a couple weeks back.) We loved this site further downriver on Long Lake. A nice breeze that lasted all night kept the bugs at bay. @Robin, VTL is another great site. I love your setup. Please tell me that you've taken that on...

On the water my phone lives in an Aquapac stored in one of my PFD's pockets, with the lanyard secured to one of the buckles. Wallet and keys are double bagged in Ziplock 1-quart freezer bags and stashed in the pocket for the plastic stiffener of my under-seat bag along with my PLB. These items...

Nice! Where do you get your Landjäger? Our lunches are Landjäger from Karl's—sometimes their Smoked Bratwurst as a special treat—mighty fine cheese from the Concord Cheese Shop, and homemade GORPMM™ (Good ole raisins, (honey-roasted) peanuts, and dark-chocolate M&Ms) supplemented with items such...

Did you read the article? Packs of wolves howled, and we howled back from the shoreline. Moore estimated two active packs surrounded us. I uncovered wolf scat on a long, narrow portage trail. On closer inspection, Moore noted the scat predominantly consisted of moose calf hair. . . . He told...

The current cost for a passport book is $130. A passport card is $30. The passport card is only good for traveling via land or sea between the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Bermuda, and Carribean countries. If it is your first time applying for a passport, there is a $35 "execution (acceptance)" fee...

On the Allagash in 2019, downstream from East Twin Brook Campsite, we saw a bloated, dead moose floating or lodged on the river-right bank. Then on the St. Croix in 2020, just as I was about to throw the canoe on my shoulders and begin the portage around Canoose Ledges, I suddenly heard "How are...

The Astral Brewer 2.0 looks and sounds like a great option and I was sorely tempted to pickup a pair ahead of our Adirondack paddling trip that we just completed. Yankee frugality, however, won the day and I stuck with my Chacos/NRS sandal socks (neoprene)/Darn Tough hiker socks (for camp). The...

I don't think so. The trail was in good shape in summer 2021, but it's essentially a hiking trail, not a cart path. It climbs and descends hills and cross some bog bridging. My brother and I had our personal drypacks, a communal bag—a Granite Gear Quetico with kitchen and food and et cetera, and...

I highly recommend putting in at the lower dam on the Bog River, paddling to Lows Lake and doing the 3 mile portage to the Oz's headwaters. We gave ourselves a full day for the portage with our Penobscot 16RX, which made it quite manageable.

The problem with cats, unless they are indoor only, is that they are the single worst threat to birds and small mammals, killing tens of billions every year in the U.S. alone. Yes, they do more damage than habitat loss.