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What do you think of planning a 30 day canoe trip, bring 32 days worth of lovingly dried and packaged food, then getting stuck with a couple of folks who want to paddle like crazy every day, never stopping to look at anything, no muckle-ups, nothing, just paddle all day every day. Then getting...

Here's one for you. Carp and Ethan and me after we held a poling clinic for NFCT. Mostly it's Carp showing us all how it's done.

Me and Doug did a 27 day trip through Maine about 20 years ago. I thought I'd be breaking that record this year but my 32 day trip became a 20 day trip. Trip report to come...

Just to verify, I can go for a walk with Doug and he will collect 100 ticks to my Zero. And I have plucked several off me this year. Looked for Picaridin at Dick's - they never heard of it.

Heading out in 2 days for a big trip. We test-assembled the one I will be in, it's a bit of work, but you do it once per trip. Day trip? Probably too much work. 32 days? Piece of cake. Funny, when I was looking on craigslist, I could only find 15 footers. 17 footers were not to be found...

You should see the Bell Mystic Doug sold me. Definitely don't need to lock that one up. But I still win races in it!

Well then. I'm leaving in 7 days for points far far north. Obviously I am in that "too late to mail order" phase. Is there a brick and mortar store where I can buy picaridin?

Note to self: research canoe rentals.

BTW Yellowcanoe, cool video on the actual technique.

Not exactly sure where, but in Venice for sure. I expect it will be way lame, geared for old tourists who have never held an oar or a paddle. But you never know, definitely worth trying.

Hey did you know Venetian gondolas are rowed, not poled? They are powered by a single oar. Where did we all get the same wrong notion? I blame Saturday morning cartoons. Anyway, looks like fun. I shall take a lesson next week.

I have a Pentax WG III. Waterproof, great image quality, works underwater. But the zoom is limited. The other thing I don't like is the optional remote. I read the reviews and everyone said it didn't work, and just thought it was a bunch of naysaying. I bought one for like $30 and it truly...

Haha. Just pushing buttons. I believe in the zero decibel style, so one song just rattles around in my head for a week. Usually the last one I heard in the shuttle vehicle. Hopefully not rap... "I started panickin' when a mannikin ate my bannock and I hit it with a mahogany log in Temagami...

Also, as a progress update, I got another email at 2:30 in the afternoon. They had crossed Allagash lake and gone down Allagash Stream to the falls at the pond outlet. Yet another favorite campsite. Dang! I'm jealous now.

I believe it really is Caucomgomac Stream, with a nasty feature called the horserace. It's a wall of rock, the current piles against it and takes a 90 degree turn to the left, then around the end of the wall and back to the original course. If you are headed upstream, you enjoy a pleasant...

I'm enjoying following my friend Carp in the Allagash region right now. I get a daily email once they're in camp with a map location. The first one was at the drive-in campsite on Umbazooksus Stream, then Day 1 they went down through Chesuncook Lake and up to the Horse Races Campsite. Next...

I have used an old ski bag, which will also fit a 2-piece pole.

Of course up in the Allagash you also have to worry about aliens. I heard you should poke them in those big luminescent eyes - we don't know if there's anything sensitive in the crotchal region.

I've been drying food nonstop out in the mudroom. I put my raincoat on this morning and have been smelling like a cross between curry and spicy jerky.