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It's certainly a perishable skill. I have to review my map-and-compass stuff every so often, or it goes out of my head. One of the casualties of maps is that, increasingly, it's easier to see wherever you are as the center of the world.

I'm a guy who has spent about seven billion dollars on fancy knives and gear, leaves it all at home, and takes a swiss army knife. I carry a Mora Kansbol and a little folding saw, those being historically more useful to me than an axe, but I think I've used the saw twice and the kansbol zero...

The watersheds are bombproof. I have 2, a 60ish-liter backpack and a smaller 20-ish liter duffel. I only wish for a sturdier, padded hip belt on the backpack. Barrels (and their attendant nice, padded, burly carrying systems) seem like a nice easy way to go, but I would be hard pressed to spend...

I hate to do it, especially as I'm relatively new here, but I've got to back out on buying. Sent you a text and a PM. -MKH

I will buy this, if it's not already spoken for. I'm floating around NY looking for something to do for a day or so.

Please do! It may be relatively economical to make a low-quantity run of 20 or 30, I'll see what's available or achievable.

I'm on the NFCT with a history of lung problems, it'll probably push me off the Trail for a while. I did Old Forge - Plattsburg last week, and now I'm sitting in a roadside library in New Hampshire, where I thought I had outrun the smoke, but turns out there's a local storm system keeping it at...

Hello all, I'm paddling a skin-on-frame through a chunk of the NFCT, and since I'm 'unsupported' in being a solo paddler with no friends in the area and an antique flip phone, I'm giving my shoulders a break every few days by trying to bounce my truck up the trail as I go, so if some...

You're right, it's been fifteen years since I read Kon-Tiki. I knew he was working on a doctoral on Easter Island when he noted the apparent similarity in carving.

^ There's an interesting book called Voyage of the Manteño, by John Haslett, that posits that Polynesians used a tactic of sailing into a trade wind (or whatever they'd call a constant, steadily-directional wind) so that if food ran out, people got bored, what have you, they knew the direction...

A whopping ten pounds. But you gotta do what you gotta do. If it saves me trebling all my portage mileage, it'll have been very worth it. @tketcham - thanks for the heads up! I'll stick with the tape.

I really think Sagamore is worth a visit. It's pricey (+/-$30 for a guided tour) but what a chunk of history. You can also pay ten bucks and walk around the grounds, check the (really neat) canoes out, but not go inside the great house.

I'm sure we can work some more TLAs into this thread! The bent ribs in the frame are tied together with long, horizontal stringers down the length of the boat. There was too much chance that a portage cart with supports parallel to those stringers (but probably not actually UNDER them) would...

I'm keen not to shoot myself in the foot going to try a big chunk of the NFCT if not all of it, so I spent today making a PVC portage cart for myself. Bomb-proof? Probably not. Will it get me a hundred or so walking miles? I bet it will. (In fact I bet about seventy bucks it will.) With a...

Yikes, my man. I'm glad you weren't hurt worse than you were. It's always hard to slow down and let yourself heal up when you've got a goal or task looming in your future, I hope you have some time to take it easy.

I can only speak to Virginia, but .22 and .17 aren't legal for any sort of big game here, and the quote may not be speaking to optimal cartridge size but more to legality. (I would think .223/5.56 would also be illegal, but that and a buck will get you a cup of coffee.) I used to be a good shot...

That's exactly what a lying robot would say.

These CGTFH posts are great. Much appreciated to someone stuck in a cabinet shop for the foreseeable future.

I'm essentially a backpacker that travels by canoe, but I've been a tarp camper most of my backpacking life. I don't have any experience camping with heavier tarps, canvas and such, but I know a lot about silnylon. The best bang for the buck I've found in the tarp world are Etowah...

Carvin's Cove, outside Roanoke. I haven't been up to Moomaw in ages, I may be due for a trip. -MKH