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lowangle, Perhaps I have not been paying close enough attention, but I never noticed anyone with a ponytail also wearing a ball cap. I do have ball caps, but all of them were given to me after purchasing some item or attending some event. To try to fit in, I sometimes wore them in Preeceville...

Mem, Pender Island, with a climate much like Victoria, is technically a Mediterranean Climate. See below. The two major Canadian cities that fall outside the continental climate schema are Vancouver and Victoria. Vancouver experiences an oceanic climate, bordering warm-summer mediterranean...

Alan, As you noted, Pender Island is small. But still somewhat rural. After my retirement, we moved to South Pender Island in 2003. We had ocean front property, 1 acre, and had switchbacking stairs built 65 vertical feet down to the beach. Kept our canoe down there. Paddled to Hope Bay for...

Glenn, We left our home in Saskatchewan because we were no longer physically able to manage and care for the property. For example the disks in my lower spine had deteriorated to the point where I could no longer bend over to clear trail with my chainsaw. The pain was too much. Just one of our...

Bears captured by our trail camera in Saskatchewan. Like Black Fly’s cabin, our Saskatchewan property is still on the market.

Glenn, Our property in Saskatchewan was essentially at the headwaters of the Assiniboine River, which for about 3-4 weeks had enough water to paddle, but never enough current to teach even introductory moving water strokes. We went twice wth friends, early on, but never again. This was years...

Shadow is a rescue dog. He and his brother and a cat were abandoned at a somewhat nearby farm 7 years ago. Owner just drove off and left them. Brother dog and cat were eventually rescued; but, Shadow wouldn’t be caught. Our understanding is that he was wild for a month or more. Finally, a lady...

Shadow likes his new life very much. Our previous property in Saskatchewan was 565 acres, more than half of which was forested. We had 8 km (5 miles) of trails where we walked him nearly every day, always on a 30-foot line. He was happy enough being on the line. At the end of the walk we...

Those questions require several answers, and a couple of pictures. I don’t want to sidetrack the thread. Perhaps I should DM you. What do people think?

No bears out yet on Pender Island, British Columbia. But then, there are no bears on Pender Island, BC. Here’s our dog Shadow on his daily walk to Thieves Bay Marina and park. Daffodils blooming all across the island. No bears around to dig up the bulbs. Kathleen just pointed out that...

Here he is sniffing at last night’s campfire. Here’s that same bear investigating our composter. He eventually dragged it off into the bush!

Here is a bear a few springs ago at our bird feeder in east-central Saskatchewan.

Kathleen demonstrating her lean to initiate a low-brace turn at a British Columbia campground, around1989. Very near shore on a calm lake. No pfd needed.

My very first time in a canoe. I am in the stern, likely because of my superior paddling strokes. Danny is in the bow. I think the year is 1958, at Camp Harvey West, a Boy Scout Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our troop, #257, heads out the next day on the Kit Carson Trek, approximately 65...

Here’s me leading our canoe club’s day trip down the Chilliwack River, about an hour east of Vancouver, in 1989. At least I think it was 1989. Could have been in the early ‘90s.

I agree, black fly. I don’t anticipate “significant” Canadians, such as past PM Trudeau or new PM Mark Carney coming to trip in the US. But what about less significant Canadians such as me or Mem? I wouldn’t want to pay too much of a tripping surcharge!

These are al great responses. I have been hesitant to respond. If asked why Kathleen and I pursued wilderness tripping, playing games around the campfire would never have occurred to us. We pursued wilderness tripping to immersive ourselves in the pristine environment. Playing games would be...

I think it would be useful for carrying skis and ski poles.

Another image of my PortagePal with a paddle secured in the right hand side sleeves of her Duluth Style canvas pack. The “problem” of portaging paddles was solved many decades ago! Best of all, this solution is hands free!