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I've been wondering if anyone used thermacells, which I'd never heard of until camping with some folks this summer. Since I now only base or car camp, gear weight is not a big issue for me. @Erica, do you use the rechargeable battery-powered or the butane-powered model of thermacell, and why...

Bugs get into tents a variety of ways. I'm mainly talking about mosquitoes and black flies. What techniques or products to you use to: (1) keep them out, (2) kill them if they get in, and (3) tolerate them if you can't kill them all? As to (3), I can't sleep in warm weather all bundled up with...

My daily driver for 22 years was a five speed 1995 Mustang GT yellow convertible. As I moved past 70 (years not mph), my clutch either got stiffer, or my left leg got weaker, or both. I couldn't stand it anymore, along with the $1,000++ every year for repair bills. But I agree: Using a stick is...

I stayed in the same room a week later, driving my '97 Dodge van. The Indian owners charged me $17 for the night. (Plus, my Dodge doesn't explode.)

"The text sent to Cook County’s 911 dispatch center said a person in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was literally in flames." https://www.elyecho.com/article/3534,search-and-rescue-receives-multiple-false-alerts-from-satellite-enabled-iphones-in-bwca Sounds more like human than...

I've believed for 45 years that the drive is the most dangerous part of any canoe trip by far. And I definitely get nervous and pucker when driving in fairly high speed traffic through or around urban areas: NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C., being common examples for me...

Is Fuddle also called Douglas? Just trying to keep the cast of (Malaysians?) straight from your George River report.

From the article: "Law enforcement agencies have conducted searches from where the vehicle was located to several miles throughout the Gabriels area and the town of Brighton." Brighton is the township where the WCHA Assembly is held each year and where I paddled for three days after this...

Thanks. Fellow I had in mind is from England.

The winner of the cardboard "canoe" race struts her stuff at the 2025 WCHA Assembly paddle-by. Each kid gets three pieces of cardboard and a roll of duct tape to build a canoe, which they then race against each other from the dock, around a buoy and back to the dock. (@Conk, I believe...

Lennart, what year was that photo? The man in the foreground looks like someone I know.

Well, Fyodor is an Eastern Orthodox priest. Among many other adventure record achievements, in 2016 Fyodor set the world record for circumnavigating the world solo in a hybrid hot air balloon (11 days) and only the second soloist to do it.

Darren Bush goes into more detail about his career-switching decision in his substack blog: https://canoelover.substack.com/p/how-do-i-tell-the-world-whats-in

Sounds lovely. We look forward to reading and seeing pictures of your trip. (Tangent: Google AI says there's no such vehicle as an Eifel Yeti. Yet I see one. The digital world is often so unreal. Go canoeing!)

"Rutabaga paddlesports owner Darren Bush announced that he will close the Madison, Wisconsin, paddling shop at the end of the year to pursue a calling as a hospice chaplain. Bush will continue to own and operate Canoecopia, the largest consumer gathering in the paddlesports business." "'Some of...

Tell us more about the paddling location. It is unknown to us.

HOW you should swim aggressively to shore after a period of being in the passive, on-your-back position is literally a time for "different strokes for different folks." I have never been a strong swimmer, especially with the Australian crawl or freestyle stroke. I learned breast stroke as a kid...

I agree. Since you are undoubtedly one of the most experienced Canadian wilderness trippers on this site, I was mainly interested in whether you hide your food barrel/pack far away from your tent or hang it in trees. I take it you don't do either, other than sometimes putting it in a separate...

I missed the end of this thread. Congrats to you and your family, Jake! If you've got a solid job, that's a great area to live for canoeists and outdoors folks. I was there several times this summer. Make sure to visit the WCHA Assembly at Paul Smith's College next July, right up the road from...

What is it? So many cars look so much alike since 1980. Interesting rack system for a sedan: one roof bar and a hitch T-mount. Edit: Never mind. There was finally a fusion between my eyes and your existing thread on the vehicle and rack.