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Thanks for sharing, Glenn, this is indeed useful info. I was without phone last week after I topped my waders and discovered that my phone, previously waterproof, was no longer waterproof after 5 yrs of use. It's getting harder and harder to get by in "civilized society" without the darn...

Interesting! I'd heard they'll chew wood paddles for the salt left from sweat. Had heard of them chewing cabins. Hadn't heard of them chewing into a cooler!

Yeah, I wouldn't say I'm worried about bears....more about helping varmints of all kinds not get habituated to stealing human food. A fed bear is a dead bear. Though I agree in most places the raccoons are a more likely threat. But for raccoons a cooler with an NRS strap usually does the job.

Oops, thought of another question- do folks in that area bother with hanging food because of bears and other varmints?

Thanks, all! You've been most helpful!

Looking at the forecast and current gauge levels, we're thinking we can do the Clarion, getting on the water mid-morning on Friday to try to beat the weekend rush. We're debating boat selection. Is royalex a better choice over composite for this creek? Is the bottom hard enough and the creek...

Bear vaults are a good table and a good stool. Too bad mine's heavy as all get-out.

Thanks, @PortageW/Cerberus , that's helpful. No use in reinventing the wheel!

Very nice, Glenn, one of my fav spots. I need to get down there while the water's up. Too bad I have canoe camping trips planned for the next two weekends, and attending the poling races the week after. :)

@PortageW/Cerberus very nice. Looks like you have a cam strap going to ground and well as a line angling up to the tree? Stability/capsize prevention? What are your dimensions, and if you were making it again, would you change them? Did you add a curve in the side facing the tree?

Agreed, there are circumstances where a shorter pole is fine or even preferrable

The clanking noise is my least favorite part of poling. One solution is to go back to shoeless and keep trimming off an inch every time the end gets to smashed up and frayed. My first pole was just a spruce snag, cleaned up but with no shoe. Worked pretty well my first season. 10ft is...

Dang, I would love to paddle in some deep snowy woods like that!

@kahel a year later and I have a trip upcoming and am finally looking to make myself a hanging table like yours. Can I ask the dimensions? What radius did you use for the curve? Are you happy with the size and shape or would you change it if you were making another?

A quick paddle before work is the best way to start the day.

Sounds intense! Given that I'm usually by myself poling, I might hesitate to try such a move. But maybe with other folks around

Thanks for the explanation, Rick, that makes sense. Steve, it sounds like you're describing a turn almost broadside to the current, but perhaps the angle of boat to current is much shallower than the word 'turn' implies? But if I follow, your pole is on the main-current side in the eddy as...

Right now we're leaning towards the Clarion, with the Allegheny as a low-water back up. As intriguing as the Little Muskingum is, we need approximate travel times to do our vacation requests for work - the PA rivers are close to each other in drive time. We're hoping that by getting on the...

Another advantage to back-country tripping.

Both Harry Rock and Garret Conover explain in their books that the advantage to being trimmed upstream end light in a current is that the current slides under the bottom of the hull, exerting minimal force on the sides. With the upstream stem in the water, any angle of the canoe to the current...