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I have always fantasized about passing under the porch of The Left Bank paddling through Saranac Lake and having them lower down a takeout dinner. One of my favorite places to sit and eat.

I wanted to make a seal-gut parka like that so badly at one point in my life. I tried deer gut from a whitetail and I clearly didn't understand the process very well! The best old footage I've seen was a Canadian series featuring a man called Tuktuk ('caribou', iirc) going about the various...

It's designed to carry either a duffel/dry bag or bulky odd items - anything from firewood to a chainsaw to an elk quarter. You could certainly carry a spotting scope but the frame may be overkill for that.

^Burn it all down if you can't win, man. I've never had the money to buy a high-end canoe, so it's a moot point for me. You can build a skin-on-frame for a few hundred bucks. I've never built a stripper, so I don't know much how much it would cost to build one, but I'm guessing far less than...

That's a neat one. What sort of torso length will it fit, do you know?

Those were game changers. I've gone to an agawa but I remember having a sven and thinking it was the neatest thing ever.

Just like picking a paddle.

My first beavertail was as tall as I was, that's a mistake you only make once!

I have torn all hell out of my body over the past few decades - broken shoulder, neuropathy, arthritis, carpal tunnel, you name it. The big things that helped me overcome that while canoeing were learning to kneel more or less the whole time, which put my torso into the stroke and reduced...

I have done many miles with a webbing/plastic buckle strap that did the same thing - kept the weight off my ankles and knees - and it was a good solution. Something wider and firmer would only be better, I suspect. We used to call them 'trapper's seats' but I think there's an actual product...

Man, I can't even remember where my keys are.

I would think an ottertail or modified ottertail would be the natural choice. Robert Perkins ("Into the Great Solitude") used paddles that were anorexic ottertails, sassafrass sticks that were no wider than your typical Greenland blade. Some company I can't remember made a paddle called "the...

Glenn, your quote doesn't seem to contradict itself if the blurb is making a case for the price difference between 'epoxy' and 'ecopoxy'. If it's a product made outside of the U.S. then translation may account for the grammatical weirdness. I have heard of Ecopoxy used for table pours but...

That's in fine shape. Happy tuning!

Pretty! Reminds me of a wannigan, woffigan girlfriend I had once.

^ I'll never forget the first footage of Bill Mason I saw, him out fighting through waves on Superior in that red Prospector. I couldn't figure out if he was brave as heck or dumb as a rock. We're in the negatives here in Vermont, my first time being that cold. It's quiet, still, and the snow...

There used to be a knife called the Skookum Bushtool that was all the rage because of a guy named Mors Kochanski. I owned one for a while and sold it, as one does. I'd like to find another one somewhere. We're (the communal tribe in central vermont) enjoying clear 20d days, and sauna-ing with...

I scratched my head over something like this for a long time several years ago. My necessary was not that it was any easier than pitching a tent on land, but that it would allow me to sleep on the water (public right-of-way) without trespassing on private shoreline for a trip down the lower...

"The real problem with humanity is the following - we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology." -E. O. Wilson

@yknpdlr can you tell me what 'lake effect snow' is please? I just pulled into Vermont from Virginia last night - it's colder in VA than VT right now, but I feel like I came into Winter. Plenty of snow on the ground, smoke drifting out of the sauna chimney, turned 4WD on for the first time in...