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<rant> People! Educate yourselves about black bears before you pontificate. A male black bear that looks well-fed to our eyes could actually be rather lean. Eastern black bears' behaviors are very different from those out west (see my previous post(s) on this subject). Feeding (eastern) black...

But not drawknives!

It looks like this year's ice-out is progressing about two weeks earlier than last year. 2015: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ice_out/index.html This is probably fairly typical. 2014 by comparison: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ice_out/index.html?year=2014 Other years are available via a dialog box on...

Robin, that clip makes me want to reach into my screen and pet him!

This looks like a great project! The only thing I can suggest is to use a drawknife instead of a spokeshave for the rough shaping. It takes off more material and is more controllable. Re canotrouge's idea of removing a tight axehead, another approach might be to put some very dry sand it in a...

Robin, I hope I speak for many others when I thank you for sharing this background information. It's good to know your FS concerns were not based on mere prejudice.

dougd, I assume you know that the Eclipse isn't full-thickness Royalex. And that it oil-cans when in the water. And it weighs 62 lbs with wood trim. And it makes a nice tripping boat for water up to mild Class II. And it handles tight, twisty streams with ease. My ex and I once had 11 boats...

Wow ... that looks like a great improvement over wood rasps and hand sanding.

Thanks, Glenn!

This may be just a tad off-topic but it seems relevant. Time to start planning for the 2020 trip - when the kid's five years old.

Trip notes, Sept. 2011, Quadga Lake, BWCA: I sleep well, despite hearing some rhythmic huffing or wheezing around 10:00 pm. A bear? I let out a couple of big barks and the sound stops. After a second round of huffing and barking it stops for good - as far as I know. I’m reassured by knowing...

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My first encounter with a black bear was of this nature. It was late September and my then-wife and I had bushwhacked a half-mile or so to find and photograph a small waterfall in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. While there I mentioned that I had a funny feeling that we were being watched. She...

I like what you've done with the outfitting. I've done the same for paddle carrying, and once made an arched thwart to accommodate sliding a pack under it. Some people wonder why mess with a perfectly good boat. I say - and I suspect you'd agree - that the boat isn't perfect until it meets the...

Bois Brule River, Wisconsin, June 2009

Greetings back from SCWI.

LOL, that's good! :-) Reminds me of the guy I used to work with whose mug read, "I like my coffee to sit up and bark!"

I bring a gallon-size Ziploc bag, into which goes whatever food is packaged in, usually Ziploc bags, sometimes original freeze-dried meal packages. The bag has never been full beyond an inch thick.

It appears to be the real deal. http://christopherbean.com/index.php/coffee/liquid-coffee-concentrate-extract.html

No Title I hope the Opsak is truly odor-proof. I got a few recently and when I make jerky I'll test them on my dog. I've mentioned before that the BearVault is odor-proof, at least as far as my dog's concerned, and despite the fact that he's a herder, his world is all about the nose. I once...