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I've done this multiuse/makeshift pillow bit myself, and what works better for me is to use "springier" fleece or polyester clothing as the stuffing for the pillow, rather than cotton items like T-shirts or sweatshirts. The cotton compresses until hard, and then I felt like I was using a 2x6 or...

Has Shaw and Tenney always had this elite line of paddles? When I was in retail years back (early 1970s) the canoe shop I worked at sold Shaw and Tenney as low-end paddles, the $5 to $10 range as I remember. Clement and Sawyer were higher end back then, Clement, out of Trois-Rivières Quebec...

I didn't go far enough into the site to notice that, so sorry, folks, for mentioning it. I used to chat a bit with John Lockwood, the guy who started the company, when we were both at paddling functions (mainly the annual NW Sea Kayak Symposium at Port Townsend) and he was full of info and fun...

Another company that does this sort of thing is Pygmy Boats in Port Townsend, Washington, primarily providing kits for making your own boats. A slightly different method than the original video post, and it's mostly kayaks, but they have other boats, including at least one canoe...

I thought in the vid description somewhere, or maybe it was pecking around in the comments below that it was mentioned as 3-mm plywood. Don't quote me on it.

My sole trip there was end of February into March, which loosely (at least to me) qualifies as winter. We still had from below freezing weather (2 nights) to hot and somewhat muggy 100-degree (F) days. You set a time period for your trip and take your chances as to weather, especially when...

I don't carry myself and I can't remember ever feeling threatened. To me the attitude Knees illustrates is similar to one described in a juvenile novel by SF writer Robert Heinlein (I think his mid 1950s "Tunnel in the Sky"). In it a student about to graduate high school in the future has the...

The Buffalo River in Arkansas, 1973 (Easter Weekend) My immediate family had set up a sort of mini-reunion with parents and some of the kids. Not all would be there. It was finalized that I would be coming down to Missouri (south central, near Springfield, where my parents lived with my...

Some nice pics of your own, too, @eckilson. Thanks for contributing. Looks like there could be some (almost?) oops moments there.

From what I remember of your trip reports, it seems you seldom paddled where there was any wood to burn.

I've built campfires in the past, some even relatively recently, like 2015. Almost all the recent ones were small just to rid of us of extra paper and garbage on trips and over quickly, not for warming or gazing or chatting around. Heck, just a few weeks ago I had a huge fire going for two days...

Thanks. That lightish wind, no matter where I stand, turns my body into a rock in the stream that makes an eddy and draws the smoke toward me. Can't avoid it. I don't want to smell like smoke so I usually just stay way away from fires if at all possible, especially as I (and the ones I'm with)...

My problem was that it never seemed to be "just a little." Maybe woodstove skills are different than campfire skills?

Does "west" stop at the Canadian border? I see to have been rained on more than a few times on summer trips up there (usually late summer). I'm just joking with you. Otherwise, it usually does happen as you say here in OR, and it's worse east of the Cascade Mountains. And to keep it more on...

NV likely has lots of decent weather. Where I have often paddled never seems to.

That's correct, as I allude to in my post above. It could be especially effective in an upstream wind, also noted above. The trouble is, if there's very little breeze, it's very easy to paddle faster than the current as the canoe is already going almost current speed. It doesn't take much effort...

The BLM logged off some of their property about a half mile upwind of us earlier and are burning slash piles today. It really stinks outside right now. So bad that, though I need some firewood for the stove for the week of rain forecast to start tonight, I'm debating on whether to get it right...

Gamma, I think you can get smoke smell in an aerosol spray can for when you miss it too much and can't get on a trip for a campfire. Spray your clothes down and never have to go without! < grin > To each his own. We heat our house with a woodstove, so smoke smell is around our place a lot...

May not be as new as I think. We've been in smaller groups lately, though see it when camped with other groups, and it's only been lately. We've been doing a lot of desert paddling in the last 15 or so years, and that terrain isn't conducive to hammock use. I've seen exactly one on the Green in...

It's been somewhat a problem in some of the campsites we've shared on a few river trips as well as on the Bowron Chain in BC a few years back. I'm sure it's gonna get worse. Will campgrounds rebel? Most have a number of tents limit per site already, I think. Ain't any such thing out in the...