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Thanks for your comments. @yellowcanoe I would hate to do Rod and Gun going upward! Louisa May be long, but it's not hilly. Re: battery. I kept my phone off except for the times when I was connecting to the InReach device to send messages. If I didn't get a reply within 20 minutes I shut it...

Well I went back to Algonquin for my seventh trip there. A good time was had by the mosquitoes. And by me, too. It's pretty much a repeat of a loop I did last fall, but accessed from a different lake. Had great weather with light winds, but also experienced one of the heaviest rainfall days in...

Another trip those kids will remember forever! Great work! My sisters, now in their 50s, still recall their trips with the outers club at Sir Winston Churchill CVI in Thunder Bay. They gained an appreciation for the outdoors, the ability to work together, the shrugging off of a lot of minor...

Thanks for posting. A great document of the state of the route. Great clear pictures. Very jealous of your canoe. Paddle on...

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone. Brad, I enjoyed reading your report, [Everybody read his trip report! It's well written, funny, and rings so true] and in did in fact go around the south side of that island to check out the hidden site. I can see that it is a good spot to slow down...

I loved your trip report. Lots of small details that paint a great mental picture. Knowing exactly the spot helped, too. Thanks for posting that.

Welcome aboard, to a fellow hammocker! Where is Old Dominion?

Click on the Burnt Island link below. A nice weekend getting reacquainted with the park and my paddling muscles...

Great report. Would like to hear your thoughts on how the Keewaydin 15 handles. I tried one for a few days, but am not experienced enough to feel the difference between it and an Osprey. You asked about sun shirts. I wear this one as my bush shirt...expensive, but has two zippered chest...

Thank you!

Tech issue: When I click on the video to play it, it disappears. Could you possibly post a link to the Vimeo page where the video lives? I'd love to see it.

Btw I use the mirror on my compass for tick checks.

The idea of putting something ( repellent, insecticide, Vaseline, gasoline, stove fuel, etc) directly on the tick while it is attached is not recommended. The tick will throw up Into you, thus releasing the nasty bacteria into your bloodstream. I'll try to find a link later today, as I hate to...

http://www.tickencounter.org good information about identification, potential problems, prevention, etc...

I hate them too. And it's not just Lyme; there are several other serious diseases carried by ticks. I pulled a large number of ticks off of me a few years back while bushwacking near the Ontario-Minnesota border. It's deer country. Since then, every spring I soak my tripping pants, socks, and...

Like Red Langford, in the first post, I remember reading and rereading Lost in the Barrens and Curse of the Viking Grave. That led to Black Joke, and so on. He was a big part of growing up in the 70's. And tHough it was dense, I loved Westviking, his theory of Norse settlement in Newfoundland...

Maybe the axe hole is to hang it on the wall of your garage between chopfests.

I guess your signature line ("In alcohol's defence...")makes sense now ;). Were you sober at the time? Hope you didn't burn yourself. I feel bad encouraging folks to make alcohol stoves without giving safety tips!

This looks like an excellent alcohol stove, and very easy to make. I'm going to make one this weekend and let you know how it goes. http://vimeo.com/64726512 by the way I use the Primus Litech pot for most things. About 900mL (1qt?) capacity. Good enough for kraft dinner, water for...

Thanks Brad. I love your choice of pictures. I'm Planning on doing this route this summer, so this was inspiring, as we wait for ice out.