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Shoot. Too far for a road trip.... :( I hope they go to a good home. It's kind of you to offer them up. Lance

If the van has rain gutters that opens a lot of ladder rack options without making holes which would at least get you through to fall. I haven't looked at vans in so long I don't know if they even have rain gutter anymore..... Best regards, Lance

Getting very far with this would be purely aspirational as someone would have to climb over the gear and I'm not as flexible as I once was. And we're a decade or more past the "anytime, anywhere" kind of stuff. Horses, a cliff ledge during a climb, department store changing room and...

Now that sounds like someone who's paddled to the far end of someplace like Stillwater Reservoir only to find "tyour" campsite occupied by a squatter. Now that would raise my hackles. and it did once until I realized that a group had made an honest mistake on which site was which and so I took...

Nice write up, Mike. It's good to see folks getting back together now that it's safe for the vaccinated to do so. But I'm not sure the "No Trespassing"" signs will do the trick in keeping the undesirables out....unless you keep a pistol within arms reach as a matter of habit. Canoeists and...

Well, it only took eight months to finally get to Buffalo, New York and pick up the Mad River Northwoods. And we finally saw the now one year old granddaughter, a new to us 5 month old grandson and in a swing across Upstate New York we saw five of our six kids and their spawn and most of our...

I know nothing about it other than the ad but an Old Town Tripper just hit Ebay in the last day or so with an auction starting price of $350 and a "Buy it now" of only $455. The picture seems to be a stock photo and all the usual disclaimers and cautions apply but there may be a deal to be had...

Good looking eats. We aren't ever in a rush to cover lots of miles and I really enjoy camp cookery so I find myself reaching for a reflector oven, camp style Dutch oven of one of my old Bakepacker steam ovens more and more. I'd gotten away from all of them for years. We'll be home at the end of...

Oops, I forgot about this thread until a little bit ago. The Epic paddle I mentioned has an oval shaft and adjusts with a fingered collet with a knurled locking sleeve over it and although I was somewhat concerned about sand possibly being an issue it never has been. It allows infinite...

I'm going out of town in a few minutes and if I have coverage at any time I'll try to respond to this. Otherwise it'll be Monday AM. Best regards to all, Lance

One of the primary concerns the further you get from relatively quick access to emergency response teams is that actions that are completely acceptable at home become iffy at best in remote areas. What might be a somewhat painful inconvenience at home such as a severe ankle sprain could be life...

For my part I have a few axes, a 26" Estwing "large" camp axe in particular, that have helped dozens of scouts and more than a few adults learn axe-craft but I get really cautious about who uses my better axes. My usual policy is to saw to length and split as needed including variations of the...

I'm coming late to this party but will likely be in the market for a light double blade paddle soon. I have a custom Kevlar/carbon hybrid Epic Kayaks paddle that, like all Epic paddles has 10CM of built in length adjustment that is 235 CM when fully extended. It has fairly large blades...

I wear my long tunic length leather welding cost that is normally reserved for overhead welding when I cut non-ferrous metal on the table saw. And safety goggles. And a face mask.

I like the way you cut out the shelf. When you aid you had removed the full shelf I wondered how you would do it. Lance

Hey, I don't know about ever making them commercially but I am making a template for the end panels and one for the top and bottom panels (which are identical, too) so i can zip them out with "fine cut" consumables on the plasma cutter I have on back order. The kerf with that setup is almost...

To follow up on post #57; the skewers came in a few days ago. They have the advertised fancy pants washer thingies to push the food off and there is a flattened spot on the skewer to keep them from coming off. It seems an altogether ingenious solution to a non existent problem. And although...

I had a couple odd small items show up a year or so ago from another site. I suspect it was the same thing.

They're good folks who can work voodoo within the Amazon system. If you have something more than the routine return of a defective or in accurately advertised item they will really "go the distance" to make things right. Lance

Hey! Let's all channel our inner Elmer Fudd! "Shhh....Be vewy careful.....We're heating Royalex"