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The 14 day quarantine for people flying into Alaska ends on June 2, 2020. So if you fly up to Alaska on June 3 or later, you could rent canoes and go on our rivers and lakes. We have over 3000 rivers and over 3,000,000 lakes.

You could use a heat lamp, a hair dryer or an heat gun to speed up the hardening.

Most knives that I see today do not have a good sheath. The leather is thinner than it should be and they have no way to lock the knife into the sheath. Buck Knives has some of the best sheaths I have seen. Nice thick leather and a strap that snaps around the handle to keep the knife from coming...

I built my own removable portage yoke. Where the yoke sets on the gunnels, I padded the wood and clamp brackets with leather. It eliminated the slippage along the gunnels.

I have carried a knife since 1960. I have traveled through 48 States, 4 Provinces and 1 Territory and I have never heard of a sheath knife cutting through a sheath and injuring the carrier in a fall.

Thank you everybody. In reading all of the different posts, I believe I have discovered my problem. I had the bow of the canoe on shore as I was getting in or out of the canoe. I will find out for sure tomorrow when I go back to the lake to canoe some more.

I learned to canoe in high school in 1968. I went canoeing regularly until 1992. I was proficient in whitewater and flat water. I bought a new canoe (Old Town Discovery 119) this month. I took it out to a local lake to check out the canoe and myself. I swamped getting into the canoe. Once...

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Thank you. I have been to Whitehorse several times.

Thank you. Things are starting to open up. I plan on canoeing the Swan Lake/Swanson River canoe trails this summer.

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A Thank you. Where are you in the interior? I live south of Soldotna.

Hello from Alaska! I am 68 years old and have been canoeing since high school. Now I just canoe lakes.