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As an early birthday present, I splurged and bought that little $38 neoair pump. It works! It's extremely light. There is no on/off switch. When you open the compartment to get the nozzle out, it starts apumping. I love the dead simplicity of it. Taking it on a hiking trip next week with my...

yellowcanoe. St. John's, Newfoundland? If so, you do get around... Cookannapurna. Optimus makes a titanium long handled spoon like yours, but the part you put in your mouth is polished. My Mountain Laurel Designs spoon got retired once I found that. I'm going for a hike on the coast of...

I really can't blame MEC in Toronto for changing its product line. Fewer people seem to canoe camp or hike now. That particular store caters more to cyclists, runners, slack line walkers, and students preparing for backpacking trips in Europe and Asia. As long as the online store carries a good...

Lovely photos! And a Very intrepid pose on the glacial erratic at Rainer Pond, I must say. Looks like the title page of an old "Boys' Own" annual from the early 1900s. Thanks for sharing those.

Okay this is gonna sound totally lazy and a bit "downscale" after that awesome-sounding stew recipe, but...Kraft Dinner + tuna from a pouch + ketchup. Easy. Cheesy. Proteiny. And yummy.

Very nice find! And good work on the overhaul.

Great report. I clicked over to ccr to look at it. Those are some big beautiful lakes. Thanks for posting this. I took special note of the clouds denoting a change in the wind ;-)

That looks like a lot of fun! And a beautiful river, too, based on your photos. Thanks for posting those. Can you catch salmon there?

@ Chip It would be a bit sad to meet your maker in a privy! But as they say, "Any shelter in a storm."

What a great picture! Looks formidable...

Looks like $7500 will get you one! http://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/thebay/hudsons-bay-company-multistripe-canoe-0020-83658894--24

I haven't seen version five yet. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip. I saw Jeff speak at the Kitchener Waterloo Canoe Symposium and it was quite clear that he would never stop improving these maps until they were perfect. His Killarney and Temagami maps look great, too. I bet he'll...

redoleary It's a Clark Geomatics Algonquin Map. I got it online within the app "PDF Maps" by Avenza, but it is available in some outdoors stores and directly from the maker here: http://www.clarkgeomatics.ca/single-project-algonquin.html I used it in the trip report because of the contrast on...

Thanks YC! Looks like I need to start keeping a cloud/weather journal. Should be fun.

smallworks you're right. a lot of the archaeology / material culture of the Canadian Fur Trade was figured out by archaeologists diving at tricky rapids in the French River, where canoes regularly tipped...

@ Yellowcanoe, sounds like you know your way around the clouds. Can you recommend a good resource for predicting the weather from the clouds? I've learned the major cloud types but not enough about how they work to really forecast anything.

Thank you all for your kind comments. re: the beaver The thing that was so funny to me was that he had to climb a serious hill and descend another hill to save not a heck of a lot of swimming. Robin Snapper has a good eye. Those are Ursacks with OPSaks inside, tied up with...

Hey folks, did a 5 night solo trip in Algonquin Park last week. Pretty standard loop through McIntosh-WhiteTrout-Big Trout-Otterslides-Burnt Island. Generally good weather, a few bugs in places, windy at times enough to keep me in camp for many hours, met a moose or two, met a beaver in my...

1.Those really long rubber coated twist ties are great for tying your paddle to a thwart, when you're portaging. http://www.mec.ca/product/5026-963/n...ber-twist-tie/ 2. Not a hack, just a simplification: One knot to rule them all. Okay, two. You can tie all your tent or tarp lines with a...

I flipped on Burnt Island lake in Algonquin a couple of years ago. Launching very quickly into a headwind, trying hard to make headway, pulling for all I was worth, three paddle strokes from shore, my double blade hit a submerged tree, and my reaction flipped me into the drink. Luckily the...