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When I trapped beaver with an old trapper, we used his Grumman 17 foot lightweight canoe as a toboggan on the ice of frozen lakes in the spring, when all the snow had melted. When the ice got iffy, we would walk next to the canoe pushing it with paddles wedged against a canoe rib. When the ice...

I enjoyed this video, it was in a canoe and definitely a canoe trip, not a short paddle dipping half day putzing about. Far more entertaining than a lot of what we are seeing here lately. Big plus, not one mention of infirmaries, kayaks, racing or paddling.com. No points lost due to using a...

I meant to put a smiley face on my post 🙃. I really don’t like potatoes in general, I do like some crispy hash browns or fries just short of being burnt. Mashed with good gravy is also okay, as is double baked with cheese and bacon. As for pancakes, the only kind I eat are sourdough pancakes...

You will never get the stench or taste of the ugly spud out of that cold handle skillet.

DougK you are 100% correct on everything thing you wrote. Except for a few inches in rod length that neither of us would probably notice. I like nothing better than a trout freshly caught, cooked to perfection on an open fire, with a nice view near or far of the nearby water body.

I doubt that they would want or need you.

I’m glad you are back to writing about this trip. I have often wondered if I had missed the final episodes. I have been looking for them lo and behold there it is this morning. Now I’ve gotten to enjoy Part 8. Your writing makes me feel like I’m experiencing it with you, I can almost feel the...

Up here at 64° N, we’ve already gained 1 minute and 58 seconds since the Winter Solstice. Still 17 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the daylight we get on the Summer Solstice Solstice. In my childhood memories, I can still hear my mother’s voice saying, “As the days begin to lengthen, the cold...

Glen…… That wasn’t much help for me. Hope someone else can use it, but I surely will not. I don’t remember what I had for breakfast. I am not at all interested in how easy or how hard doing things on my minuscule iPhone are or are not going to be. I did write that if they were interested where...

Thanks for the helping hand Tryin’. Being low tech and stubbornly stuck in the fifties & sixties, I do need and appreciate assistance from the IT people. ……B Birchy

Like ppine’s Eagle Claw combo fishing rod, I have an old fiberglass Fenwick combo rod that went all over Alaska when I was a young man. It even went to Japan with me so I could fill out my life list of all of the Pacific salmon species. Since I retired with time to do it , I have bought a S-type...

I don’t know anything about using a whistle to scare away wolves. If interested about my interaction with grizzlies & an Acme Dog Whistle look up my post from August 9, 2019 #13.

I like the thigh high style on my younger women canoe tripping partners, really very practical for beaver dam crossings and fly fishing in rivers & streams where the water is over the knees. I wore out a pair of Red Wing Irish Setter wedge soled hunting boots, canoe tripping in the Boundary...

I think the members here give good/poor/ bad reviews of plenty of products they like or don’t like. Having vendors advertising here is a non-starter for me. Just opening the door to all kinds of mischief.

Halpc ……. Have you read “UNDAUNTED COURAGE” the biography of Meriwether Louis by Stephen Ambrose? Good enough to read more than once, in my opinion. Thanks for the “THRONE OF GRACE” tip. I have it placed on hold at the Fairbanks Borough Public Library, North Pole Branch. Looking forward to a...

You are not considered a true Alaskan Sourdough if you haven’t over wintered in the great land, shot a Grizzly bear, slept with an Eskimo and pissed in the Yukon. There may be something else about a quart of whiskey at one sitting. Snow birds need not apply!!

A bunch of years ago when I was young, I bought a moderately modern, cowboy bedroll from Beckel Canvas Company in Oregon. It’s the same place that I have gotten exceptional eena wall tents. My bedroll, like the tents are pale green #10 canvas. The bedroll is pretty big with a big toothed zipper...

Old time cowboy’s call their quilts, sougans

Billabong picnic blanket is sold in Australia, looking at them on their website they stated that it was made in china. Well, what isn’t these days. I for one will not buy one but I have a friend that has an industrial sewing machine that works it for a fair price. I will be waiting to see how...

I carried a M-60 around for a year when I was a boy, spent many long, dark hours snuggling it near the top of the perimeter berm. Hope never to see one again. I made a couple of black power fire firearms NW Trade Gun smooth bore 20 gauge & a Trade Rifle in .62 caliber. Both were enjoyable...