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My first thought on all of this was someone needing a carabiner to pull a deadfall out of the way and getting hit in the face by a cheap broken junk piece of aluminum. spend the extra $3

I think that 1,009 will be enough.

barf... I always wanted a canoe that required a mallet.

If you buy good carabiners, then you have carabiners for any situation.

Yeah, I remember fondly a soggy down sleeping bag on an Alaskan glacier. It only took 5 days to dry out... it was a -20F bag, when dry. You're right, I never let that happen again.

Aluminum rental canoes used to figure large in drownings - like 60-70%. And here, when they say "kayaks" you can bet that those boats are cheap flatwater rec boats. They should really differentiate between whitewater and sea kayaks, and the ten foot long drag-it-across-the-parking-lot boats. Of...

GPS. I have an old and almost dead Garmin Rhino. It was handy when I was doing archaeology surface surveys, but that was it - It's nice to have a precise location to pass on to someone for that type of work. Using it for any outdoor navigation just took my head completely out of the game. I...

Needs gunnels, seats and thwarts, and maybe some hull work, but it still floats. Used only once. Always stored inside. They don't make Royalex anymore, so these are really in demand! Easy to portage! It weighs only 8 lbs!!! $800.

nice writing and photos. good job

I'm doing good if my feet are still in the canoe

"Trade Route" 38x56 inches, hand sewn beadwork I finished this piece in 2021. Instead of beading the water as water, I filled it with reports, charts and data about the Yakima River (Eastern Washington). The title refers to the trading of salmon spawning grounds for irrigation. The Yakima is...

Today's photo from the canoe. Checking for boat traffic as I was about to cross the river...thought I'd wait for them to pass.

Good topic. I started mountain climbing as a teenager, and those pre-cellphone/radio experiences definitely color my thinking. Later, I did a lot of back country solo mountain biking in the Cascades, which weren't overnight trips, unless you broke yourself. Those rides were no-fall rides...20...

sunburn

Not stock. No way.

Yes, but they weren't canoeing. But they were next to trees and a metal fence.

I have a wrist watch, a camera and a headlamp. My phone is off and stashed in a waterproof case. I learned pretty quick that computing stuff and GPS just takes my head out of the place that I want to be. So, I'm least likely to give up the wristwatch, and I've already dumped the GPS.

They left out Coleman?

I always think, "path of least resistance". Get to shore or close to shore. Be lower than the surroundings. Don't stand next to the neighborhood "lightning rod." Under trees is good, but the tallest tree in the forest is bad. Don't lean up against or touch the metal fence. If there are...