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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...

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...