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Kathleen and I always took four paddles on our wilderness canoe trips. We each had our own light, flexible wooden, otter tail paddles for lake water and easy moving water. Easy on the shoulders. Not tiring, even after paddling all day. Here we are in 2017, ready to begin paddling in the East Arm...

Back in the mid nineties, two surgeons joined our canoe club in Vancouver. Their goal was to develop enough paddling skills to go on extended river trips in northern Canada. Kathleen and I shared our experiences with them regarding appropriate gear, and mentioned that we always took a fairly...

Very glad that you enjoyed my trip report, riverstrider. After all, that’s why I post. I very much appreciate and welcome positive feedback. Thanks, Glenn, for explaining how to somewhat easily find my other trip reports. You are not alone, riverstrider, in declaring that you would not enjoy...

Kathleen and I have usually tripped just by ourselves. Most of our tripping has been north of treeline, our favourite landscape. In these situations, we rarely put up a tarp, primarily because we prefer to have an unobstructed view of the beauty of our surroundings, as here on the Snowdrift...

I don’t know. I simply searched for canoe cradle title, and it came up. I didn’t read/study the thread, as I don’t need a canoe cradle. Just trying to be helpful. Sorry you didn’t find anything useful. There’s also another canoe cradle thread started by canotrouge in 2018. I haven’t read it...

Previous thread on canoetripping.net https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/canoe-cradles.43466/

Kestel, I infer that you would like me to send you a book. If so, please private message me for details. Michael

Kestrel, Glad you enjoyed the report. I do have two versions of the entire report. One is a hard copy book that Kathleen and I published titled Three Seasons In The Wind - 950 Kilometres Down Northern Canada’s Thelon River. It has the complete story, but was published as a “print on demand“...

A lot of inexplicable stuff happening. Gear loaded haphazardly, a lot of gear. For what purpose? Motoring and paddling At the same time. Why? Paddling far out from shore, with no apparent paddling skills. Why? No attempt to save himself. The calls for help were lame. Yet help came. Perhaps help...

I just watched this again, and still think that this guy might have capsized on purpose, as a video fundraising stunt. He didn’t make any attempt to save himself, other than yelling out help, as if he believed help was nearby.

This might be too picky, but I was not happy with the self-rescue at the beginning of the video. We were always taught that after a capsize 1. Hold on to your paddle, 2. Get to the upstream end of your boat, 3. Check for you partner, 4. Grab the painter, 5. On your back, attempt to swim the...

Yeah, yknpdlr. It is a true pain! No one enjoys reloading the bag.

All canoes in our club carried a throw bag on day trips, but I have never seen anyone use one. And we paddled gnarly, boulder-filled rapids pretty much year-round in the Vancouver area. To use a throw bag would require that lead boats eddy out, and the paddlers stand on shore, waiting for the...

My throw bag is over 35 years old, and not nearly as snazzy or technological as the bags shown in the video. Our canoe club back in Vancouver held an annual clinic on river rescue techniques. Most people could not accurately throw the bag any great distance. It takes practice. I think accurate...

My wife Kathleen and I spent three days in Rome last summer. Loved it. If we were younger, we could easily see ourselves moving to Italy.

Welcome. I had to look up RHIB. Big change to a canoe. Europe is a pretty big place. Can you be more specific, please?

We’ve had a very mild winter in east-central Saskatchewan, until last night when a dreaded ”Alberta Clipper” roared through. Temperature tonight is predicted to fall to -30 C (-22 F). Waiting for the plow to come to clear our lane. Kathleen is out throwing snow off our driveway. I am the...

For the last couple of years we have been giving our remaining dog a once-monthly pill during tick season that generally causes the ticks to jump off. Too bad there’s not such a pill for the people.

I have used the same approach as Alan. For 15 years Kathleen and I have had as many as five sled dogs that we walk three times a day. During May, June and July, we remove wood ticks every walk, not just from the dogs, but also from ourselves. Sometimes 20-30 per walk. Just grab them between...

I found this information on the internet. I couldn’t find where the data were collected; but, in my opinion from paddling the Thelon, and other arctic/subarctic rivers, the water was cold. Kathleen and I never went swimming; but maybe we’re wusses. Britannica https://www.britannica.com ›...