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Hello folks, Please don't judge me but I'm participating in a traditional kayak build the few days prior to Delmarva Paddler's Retreat, near Rehoboth, Delaware. We've gotten a bunch of green white oak for rib stock, but unfortunately it was of such poor quality that we're a bit worried that...

Water, coffee, tea. I may switch to instant coffee if and when the Apocalypse, an EMP, catastrophic hyperinflation event, etc. happens, but until then I bring coffee, sometimes a grinder, filters, and drip cone. I use Nuun tablets for both electrolytes and a change of taste from filtered water...

I'm still looking at a decade of good canoe years, but I do regret not getting on yoga and sticking with it during my 30s and 40s. It does absolute wonders for flexibility, stamina, and attitude.

Absolutely uninterested in the box pot, but very interested in the titanium moka pot they sell. I'll try as many ways of making camp coffee as I can find. Seems to be manufactured by TOAKS, who I like, but I can't find it outside of the firebox website.

These guys are great. I went in there one day this summer and bought a paddle, and ended up talking to the guys working for something like an hour. Two weeks later, I got stuck between a no-water Saranac River and the wildfire smoke billowing down from Canada. Pulled my boat from Union Falls dam...

The first canoe I owned was the first canoe I built, somewhere in my mid 30s. It was a terrible canoe. I sawed it in thirds after I built a better one.

I think some good options have already been posted, so I have nothing to add but - good on you for getting out there and figuring it out! Have fun, be safe.

I say, "hey man. Want some taffy?"

I like the Pocketboy a lot. It's a better saw than the Bahco laplander, but it's mostly an academic difference; I used the same Bahco for close to ten years and it never did me wrong, nor did it fail to saw through what I needed it to. The Silky just does things a bit, well, silkier. I have...

Their cotton anoraks are certainly not rainproof. This was a Vardag Hydratic, designed for rain, I should have made that clear! -MKH I like to wax the bottom half of my Keb pants. Keeps them from picking up so much mud and dirt, and I have a pet theory that it lets me wade up to my knees and...

You can send yours to me. I use them constantly for reading. They fit in a hammock peak net, they hang from a gear net in a tent, they stick on canoe bows in quiet low-tide ocean sounds, they hang in AT shelters. I did hurricane relief in the Virgin Islands once and they were a godsend down...

It's a basic point of astronomy. Redshift dictates that objects that appear red are moving away from us at very high speeds.

Welcome! There's a wealth of information here.

I just had to buy a set of whoopies this weekend...always a day late!

Don't have any recent data, but I've drunk a lot of beers that were like making love in a canoe.

Why on earth would I keep track of the ownership of a company I didn't know existed a week ago?

Thank you all - I hate to say it was something of a disappointment, all around. Chick hill was a lovely hike - easy, with the reward of a great view, and on a perfectly beautiful summer's day, thank you @bark-eater . Shaw and Tenney had no time for me. A man met me in a hurry, told me they...

Thanks folks. Shame about the Oronoka. Chick Hill is exactly the nice easy day hike I'd like, where I won't have to commit all day to it, but still get a look around and a chance to stretch the legs. I'll check out the museums, maybe buy a paddle I don't need...it's a vacation!

Most of the times I've 'helped' people who were making a cock of it, the advice wasn't very welcome. Dads are tetchy about getting shown up in front of their kids. A quiet word to a ranger, or park employee, is generally where I compromise, seeing things like that. ("You may want to keep an eye...

I'm bopping around mid-coast Maine, and plan to head up to Orono/Old Town/Bangor area for a day or two. Hotels are so expensive that I just bought a hammock setup and sleep where I can, so I'll head to a state campground outside Orono tonight. Besides Shaw and Tenney, Old Town canoes, and...