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I’m not a hammock guy, but not because of any trepidation. I just can’t get comfortable. I tend to toss and turn at night and the hammock changes that not at all. Otherwise, I’m more comfortable and sleep better outside than I ever do at home or, especially, any hotel. For me, I find nothing to...

Watching this as we’re planning our own wabikimi trip (perhaps not until 2025z

Truly spectacular night cowboy camping here.

My wife waking up in the morning after a night cowboy camping in quehanna wild area, Pennsylvania

Every chance I get, I cowboy camp. I actually feel more comfortable when I can see the sky. I love waking up to roll over and seeing stars or the dark woods. And, for me, it removes the mystery of the nighttime forest. Most cowboy camping weather seems to occur for me in the winter or the edge...

Lake Erie is our home lake. We paddle it frequently and actually watched an array of municipal fireworks displays last night from the lake and our sea kayaks. I know the lake very well. I don’t think I’d enjoy paddling a canoe on it. But fantastic scenery, vastly improved water quality and...

We live in the path of totality and are staying put. We watched the 2017 eclipse from boats in a lake in Kentucky. Amazing experience. However the drive home was terrible!

I have paddled multiple trips in boundary waters and the Adirondacks. Love them both! We paddled through St. Regis as part of a longer trip. Lovely. It was the portions of our trip outside of the Regis area that wasn’t necessarily wilderness. Still excellent paddling and camping. However, I...

I have broken a paddle while pulling upstream in shallow water. That experience scared me into always having a spare along.

We packed last night for a weekend of winter backpacking in Pennsylvania. There are two items that get added to the winter pack that are super luxurious. The first is down booties for camp time. These include soft soles and work well for padding around a frozen camp and escaping frozen or wet...

Our winter has been disappointing. We’ve shoveled twice and only have three ski days locally. We really pushed the conditions two of those days. We’ve chased some snow around the Great Lakes region, but it’s been excessively warm.

We do a lot of winter backpacking. Unfortunately, we don’t often have much snow these days. If there is no snow, we stick with trail runners. No gore Tex bootie. If the trail is wet and muddy, our feet get wet. We wear neoprene socks in the evening in camp and squeeze into our often frozen shoes...

Agreed. Hate the universal DH.

I think that’s the one! Loved it there.

9/9/23 Picking up where I left off, as I shook off the grogginess and came to the realization that it was a moose crashing through the heavy brush right toward us, I began yelling my head off. Jodi awoke next to me, her heart pounding audibly asking me what was going on. I exclaimed that a...

Surfing Lake Erie off Cleveland

Lake Erie has the best fishing by far! I also contend that it has the most adventurous paddling; the conditions change on a dime. I’m biased of course living in the beautiful city of Cleveland.

A smattering of photos from a beautiful trip. The rest of the trip report is coming

9/7/23 Up about 7:00 for another leisurely breakfast and packing up of wet camp. We were on the water by 9:15 as the wind began to subside. It was still out of the east and pushing us along Little Saganaga Lake. We used the islands that dot the lake as wind shadows. We had a 20-rod portage...

9/5/23 Our first evening and night on the water was just lovely. Morning was wonderful as well! We were up by about 7:00 or so and I made pancakes! I surprised my traveling companions with some new additions: powdered butter and powdered maple syrup. Wow! I further simplified it by just...