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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...

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".