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This is in Manitoba, not entirely sure where, thinks it's on a reserve, at one point I hear a fella call one of the racers a "big weenuk", which is pretty funny in Anishnabe. Hope the link works https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16xL3jCEtf/

Robin, he's still got a little bit of work left to do to catch up to you in the breakfast department.

Just a little history from a former Manitoban. The Flin Flon Trout Festival was actually one of the major canoe races in Canada at the time. There was a circuit, and many professional canoe racers rotated through them all summer long. Beardmore, a small town 80 K from me also staged one of...

On a canoe tripping site, a post like this can stir some controversy. I'm not a big AI guy, but I asked Chat Gpt to define canoe tripping. Canoe tripping is the practice of traveling over waterways (and sometimes portaging over land) by canoe, usually for recreation, exploration, or adventure...

If you guys haven't watched this yet, I urge you to do so. It is probably my favourite documentary, shot with a Cree group of families in the early 70's. https://www.nfb.ca/film/cree_hunters/ If you just want to see the relevant canoe parts, they are at 11:53 and 16:45. These are people who...

If it's bonds, it should shatter pretty easily with the tap of a hammer. If it's thickened epoxy, not so much. I would clean it up best as possible, then use thickened epoxy to level everything out, sand it and patch it outside and probably inside.

Looking forward to this!

Years ago, Odyssey fed me some really scorching Bannock. Some of you have heard of it before. I believe I may have retired a pair of gitch later that night. I was very surprised today to receive a wonderful present in the mail from Odyssey! He knew I didn't have proper tripping glitch, so he...

Well, there you go, learn something new every day, thanks for that. I guess I just got caught up in the romance of fighting a bear with a knife, even though my prefered weapon of choice would be a chainsaw.

I've even got a K-Bar, now that's a bear sticker! As Samsam explained the double tang on the buck prevented his bloody, slippery hands from sliding down onto the blade and cutting himself. I don't have bearanoia, but the full tang knife has appealed to me ever since I read that account.

When I was introduced to whitewater paddling, I was taught by Canadian trained ORCA instructors. The main bow strokes were always draws and crossbows. They mentioned the bow pry, which they said was an American thing, and that it was the preferred stroke south of the border, apparently because...

LOL, it's hard to believe and quite ironic during this particular time that the only guy promoting an American knife company is a Canadian. For anyone interested, here is the story that turned me onto Bucks. on page 3 Samsam describes how he killed the bear...

Pry off the gunwale, why not use a mechanical advantage? My pry is often one handed from the grip, just a little flip. I have posted pictures before of paddles and gunwales that have had thousands of kilometers of prying on them with very little impact.

Our summer weather is at best 7 to 8 weeks, we don't let anything get in the way, smoke, bugs, meth heads, mining pollution.....all are taken in stride. People from down south, like our pharmacist, wear masks when it's real smokey, the rest of us carry on, and one rarely hears complaints.

I disliked the mora I ordered so much that I gave it to Alan. I`m not sure what he did with it, but the Black Bart bent shaft he sent me probably gets more use than that rusty chunk of metal. As a Canadian, the only knives I really like are true blue American made Bucks, I have a whole...

I don't want to sound like one of those tuff guys, but even on the smoky-est of days, everyone just carrys on like it's not smoky. Local joggers keep jogging, us paddlers keep paddling, I've been out in the freighter fishing on the lake when visibility is quite low. It's a very common occurrence...

I'm not sure why Nova Scotia went down that path. One would have thought that governments learned something from the the entire covid experience. Lockdowns during covid created an entire subset of "heros in their own minds" who have now become a very vocal wing of one of our political parties...

Here is the boreal forest map And here is the latest fire map You can see that almost all fires are in the boreal forest. Why are some areas hit harder than others? Weather patterns mostly. In Ontario, the MNR claims that 50 percent of forest fires are due to lightening, and the other 50...

Social media has been full of Americans complaining about Canadian smoke, and demanding that we do something about it. One of the most asinine comments I read was that all Canadians should be out raking debris off the forest floor to prevent fires. If one lives where I do, and if one has gone...