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Not to be nosey, but do your September trips still involve coming up to Ontario? My memory is not the best now, but I seem to recall you had been speculating about a trip in Wabakimi maybe? If that is the case, don't worry about the bear vault, just put your food bag outside your tent, if you...

I find myself using both measurement systems too, but to be honest, metric is a lot easier if one if fractionally challenged. Most of my students measure their projects in centimetres, although I spend a fair amount of time instructing them in imperial as well.

Except for woodworking, I haven't found many project plans in Canada using metric.

Fifty pounds is great for that canoe. People who haven't seen a Raven before are often surprised by how big it is. I've never found it tender, pretty much the opposite. It was designed by J.Winters as a down river tripper, it does well in river travel. Because of the asymmetrical hull and your...

I've worked with quite a few different woods, but hands down prefer our local white cedar. I am going to get some poplar or aspen this fall though and try that as the main wood.

There's always surprises in groups, for instance, surprise Bannock, layered with the surprise mexican jalapeño peppers, the ones the won the hottest peppers in Mexico contest, and the ones that subsequently turned my rosebud into a surprise ring of burning fire, the likes of which had never...

Having organized group meals for extended trips for over 30 years, I don't care to ever do it again. I'm quite happy sharing a fire or using one of my little stoves to make my five minute meal.

Glad to hear you are getting back into the pole of things. I'm hoping to do a real trip this summer too, first in a few years.

That's a good plan, but you have forgotten the most important Apocalypse belief......Zombies can't survive the extreme cold, even mild temperatures will slow them down enough double tap them with ease. South America will be knee deep in Zombies.

I grew up on Canadian air force bases, my Dad was a radar technician. Nuclear war was a daily reality for us. Because we were the base for the Argus, and then the Aurora, both submarine hunting planes, we were told that we would be included in the first strike of nuclear bombs. The air...

I spent 30 years taking high school kids on extended wilderness trips. Our focus was a little different from much of what is being discussed. This might sound somewhat pretentious, my apologies. We were all about trying to get the group to gel into one cohesive unit, where everyone came together...

Some of those old fiberglass chopper 3 keeled canoes are tough as heck. I have seen them still going strong with well over 50 years of use.

Forgot to mention, inn a less charitable tone, whoever designed the bed rails on the 2024 Ranger needs a kick in the Gonads. Many customers have complained, and Ford has done doodley squat to remedy the situation. I have complained to two different dealers and the head office twice, with nothing...

There were two bolt holes through the actual metal bed rail in the plastic bedrail pockets. Drilled holes through the HDPE to match the bolt holes, then drilled matching holes through the 2x4 so they all lined up. 5/16 bolts hold it all together. The 20 foot canoe was an extended version of...

The 2024 Ford Ranger has decorative bed rails. Didn't realize this till after I bought it. Basically the bed rail is about 1 inch high, made out of ribbed plastic that won't support anything. There are three pockets on each side with removable caps, so after some internet sleuthing, I ordered...

So your start date was May 22nd? The ice on our lake didn't even leave until about May 15, you must have had some frosty days!

There is a lot of truth to that....I have taken a lot of gals on canoe trips, and although I haven't ditched the canoe with any of them in it, the extended trip itself is a good barometer of how they will hold up. If you can spend a week or more on a trip with a lady who really enjoys being out...

Although fashion is conceptual and time stamped, the importance of duds could be seen as a percentage of relative salary. Some quick googling has revealed to me that in 1900, the average wage in the United States was $10 a week. Poking through a Macy's catalogue from the same era brought me to...

Had another massive rain storm last night, they are moving across Northern Ontario like bad magical carpets. Probably another couple of inches last night. Around 3 years ago, one of my firefighter buddies told me he never thought the water table would return to normal, it was so low from years...

Had over a 100 mm (roughly 4 inches) of rain again yesterday. More falling now, nig thunder storms. It's a weird Sumner, seem to be breaking records.