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Great backstory. Great picture. Black Label beer in a stubby bottle, too!

Welcome aboard! Some folks might not know what Mass and App are, so I'll take that liberty: Mass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massasauga_Provincial_Park App: Algonquin Provincial Park

10 degrees C (50F) and sunny in Toronto today. Got out my camping gear, found the hammock and quilts, and went down to my secret hanging spot on a south facing slope in an unfrequented corner of a city park. Looked for signs of spring. Saw my first green plant of the season...garlic mustard, an...

I like the looks of those traditional packs, but I started out backpacking, and I'm not ready to spend extra cash on canoe-only gear. The Blue MEC 30L bag is a simple top loading sack with a foam back for stiffness. It holds my Ursack (food pack), cook kit, small tarp, and folding tripod stool...

YC: That's a great list of trips and speakers! Some dream trips in there for sure, and good info. I agree, the smaller venue is nicer. The last two years I've been to the Kitchener Waterloo Canoe Symposium in April and had a great time with a varied group of speakers. Enjoyed Phil Cotton's...

Saw him at the Toronto Outdoor Adventure Show yesterday. For those who don't know him, he is canoeist who repaddled with his buddy James Stone the routes of surveyor A.P. Low through northern Quebec and Labrador, and then paddled across Canada following Alexander Mackenzie's paddlers' routes...

Great site, interesting program. Wish I had gone to such a place when I was a teenager. Good stuff.

I like that painting, too, but I always wondered why nobody had a paddle actually in the water, besides the avant (bow paddler).

Where in NWO? Curious Former TBayite or TBayan or thunderbagonian here, however you say it...former Lakeheader? Fort Williamite? more importantly, where are you planning to paddle first, now that you are close to some great paddling areas?

Sorry, sweeper,in my comment above (#2), I assumed the videos were yours; didn't realize you were just posting them for our viewing pleasure. Thanks for doing that. Agree with DuctTape, the videographer must inhabit hammockforums dot net. "All secure in Sector 7" and "Whooo, buddy!" are...

Wow. Great direction and editing. And some good luck, too. I'm thinking of a scene on Burnt Island where you spot a loon, and suddenly a wind riffle "dissolves" the surface of the water. Very cool. Looks like you lucked out, with all those glassy wind-free scenes! Thanks for that. A lot of...

The film http://www.nfb.ca/film/petticoat_expeditions_part_two I got a credit for props, haha. Filmed mostly at Silver Islet at the end of the Sibley Peninsula near Thunder Bay, and on Lake Marie-Louise, in Sleeping Giant park a few km north of Silver Islet. You can see there were some...

Thanks Murat. I love those types of images. That reminds me of a time when I had to study Frances Anne Hopkins's paintings to gather props from the collection at Fort William Historical Park, in order to help the NFB make a film about her. This was in the mid-nineties. Just now, I wanted to...

@mihun09 In serious mosquito or black fly country, you might have a problem. In the bridge hammock, you could bring some clothes in with you and try to change. There is space for some gear at the foot, or in the side "saddlebags", but not a lot. I think every style of hammock comes with a bit...

Thanks, yellow canoe!

Great stuff! I'm curious about the seat in the middle canoe. Looks like a leather or canvas sling for solo kneeling or sitting?

After you click the picture icon in the tool bar, a dialog box comes up that says [insert image]. Click [from URL ] and then...Unclick the check mark where it says [retrieve remote file and reference locally]. That was the trick for me. Then paste your photo link in the space, and Bob's your uncle.

Big tarp, 11 feet long by 10 feet wide, over bridge hammock. If I anticipated needing to go to ground, I'd bring an inflatable Thermarest pad instead of the under-quilt pictured here.

Bridge style hammock. Like a suspension bridge, the hammock is suspended from two "suspension triangles," the bases of which are the spreader bars. The reinforced upper edge of the bed fabric carries the weight out to that spreader bar triangle. You can lay very flat. Like a coke can cut in...

Don't want to hijack the thread, but...I got looking for birch bark canoes, and ended up at one of my favourite films. It qualifies as canoe art, and is an hour well spent, in my opinion. I tried to embed it, but failed, (hence the deleted post above), but here is a link to Cesar's Bark Canoe...