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Just going through some old Steel River loop pics Nature TV on the Steel Rapids in my old Raven One of the smaller log jams on the Steel Typical port entrance past Deadhorse Creek Bridge

Can you drive a rock truck? Move to Geraldton, ON work for the local mine, 7 days on seven days off, make fat stacks of cash, an eternity of overnighter and extended trips right at our doorstep. I can leave from my back yard and paddle to James Bay. There are always alternatives.

Ordered it on line somewhere a few years back, can't remember the details, cost about 500 bucks Canadian.

Carbon fiber straight shaft, it ain't a double and it ain't bent, I'm not a complete luddite.

Did an overnighter with the family, very nice trip, wolves howling into the night.

Sounds to me like you're doing it right!

3.4 mph sounds very similar to my tripping speed, even the heart rate seems about the same. 8 k an hour over an extended day of tripping would not be doable for me, even if I switch hit. I might have very short bursts of 7 to 8 kph, but they would be for a particular reason, such as speeding...

I think it's important in these discussions to remember the name of the site is canoetripping, not canoeracing. To be sure, one can learn many efficiencies from studying the top athletes in any given sport, but for me, the comparison breaks down to how I feel when I get to camp at night. I've...

To some extent this is true, although a competent paddler should be able to make similar hulls go at roughly the same speed. For instance, in tripping situations, I think most dedicated solo canoe hulls paddled by the same tripping paddler over the course of a day will give roughly similar...

For racers, 2.4 % is a huge advantage. For a tripper, not so much. For instance, I can propel my fully loaded Raven at 5.5 k an hour all day with a carbon straight or a wooden straight. So 5.5 +2.4% = 5.632 8 hours of paddling at 5.5 = 44 k 8 hours of paddling at 5.632 = 45.06

Very interesting, glad you had some pics. Your efforts will no doubt stir up some controversy. My observations from years of traveling with a gps is that tripping speed is often fairly standard despite conditions. The variable is effort. For instance, with a moderate head wind, I will paddle...

I got to thinking about this, and with the state of fake news all around us, I gotta say "pictures or it didn't happen".

I've got two tent stoves now, a kni-co and a G-stove. The G stove is stainless, and has not rusted. The kni-co is rusty, I haven't treated it in 15 years, but it is fine. Our Outers club had Great West stoves that were 50 years old and had never been rust treated. They were rusty but still...

Maybe, but did your app track your progress for an entire day, or a short distance? Based on my limited experience (I have one chum who has gone to the double blade dark side) we both arrive at camp at the end of the day at the same time, but I look better with my classy single stick.

That's interesting Steve, I never thought of using a double blade for a pole, does it hold up in the long run?

14 k a day will lea e you lots of time for fishing and bird watching. Totally doable.

Alan, if you stop calling your canoe naughty names, it will treat you nicer. And you gotta have a set of arms, not twigs hanging out of your shirt sleeves, to push that paddle around.

I'm Canadian, and I am very reluctant to play the switchy thing, so Al, I guess you are right. I played around this weekend in my Raven, unloaded, so lots of freeboard. Winds were gusting to almost 50 k per hour, or 30 mph for the metricallly challenged. I paddled for about 3 k into the wind...

I have very rarely used bow and stern lines for transport. Actually, I don't think I have ever used them. I have always assumed they were safety lines, in case there was a catastrophic rack failure, as my canoes have always been solidly held on the racks by ropes or cam straps. On the new...

Wow, I wonder how I missed this report. Excellent job. I did some whitewater training on the French, somewhere around Hartley Bay. I saw more people on the river over the course of five days than actually live in the little town I'm from. Are you planning any trips this summer?