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I go to the thrift store and get light weight wool dress pants. I've got some fancy Italian ones that cost a few bucks. It's the only time I've ever worn dress pants. They dry really fast and I haven't found that they aren't tough enough.

If I'm snowshoeing I have my "shovels" on my feet. If I'm dragging a toboggan I have a light collapsable aluminum shaft/ plastic scoop shovel that I can bring to dig out a tent floor or build a quinzhee.

Likewise, it's layers of wool, starting with Stanfields one piece long underwear. Wool shirt, homemade wool pants and hoodie, wool jacket and then my 35 year old down parka which I had to recover a few years ago. On top of that is my homemade ETA proof (ventile) anorak with black fox ruff. This...

Victoria Jason, his arctic trip partner and Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak author gave a talk at our kids school some 25 years ago. She was very diplomatic but it was clear that Don wasn't easy to paddle with. On an arctic sea kayak trip my wife and I did in 2008 out of Kugaaruk we came across a...

I think the Beaver is my second favourite aircraft. Here's our Turbo Beaver refuelling at the shutdown Lupin gold mine north of Yellowknife. We were demobing from our claim staking camp on the Coppermine River to Yellowknife. My favourite is the Basler, which is a DC-3 stretched and refitted...

When I was 12 years old in 1970 I spent the summer working on my uncle's raspberry farm in BC, along with my cousin. Our job was to weigh the flats that the pickers brought in and stack them on the back of the three ton truck. When I got home to Manitoba at the end of August I went straight to...

I tried on several sizes at Madawaska during a whitewater course and couldn't find one that fit around my neck. My face turned purple, neck veins were popping out and I was struggling to breathe. The fact that no one is mentioning this problem is slightly surprising. I'm not a big person but...

To be able to get out on local creeks when the water levels drop and I want to spend a couple of hours on the water without driving too far. The view is great while standing, especially on narrow streams. I figure it's a good way to maintain a sense of balance as age creeps up and heck, it's...

Thanks Rob! A great resource that I plan to take advantage of.

Well, not on the water, but on a trip in Woodland Caribou in 2015 my wife and I had to resort to sleeping in our Bob Special. We had converted to hammock camping several years before and so that is what we had with us. We had left Welkin Lake in the morning and paddled through Adventure and...

I like this site as well. It's quite useful for my work in the arctic. And I sure feel for the people in the path of this newest storm.

My wife and I just got back from a trip on the Waterfound River in Northern Saskatchewan with a 17 foot Pakboat. We rounded a bend in the river and went down a small set of rapids but the bend put us face on into a stiff wind coming out of a small lake through the narrowing of the river. I have...

Have you got a plan for how you're going to lay out tools and the workspace? I have a hard time with getting a vision for that but am getting some ideas from the other thread.

I just finished retrofitting a small barn into a boathouse/ woodworking shop and cut the wood for the walls and work bench on my sawmill so it only cost me some time and gas for the mill plus cutting the logs and hauling them out of the bush. I can convince myself that it was cheap if I set my...

My wife and I are planning to head to Wollaston Lake from 3 hours west of Winnipeg in July for a fly-in/ fly-out paddle on the Waterfound River from Points North. We're not firm on a date yet, and there's a small chance that work will influence the timing, but we were thinking of mid-July. We're...

I've also spent quite a bit of time in WCPP and have only had a brief glimpse of one bear disappearing into the bush. I use a blue barrel and set it a short distance away and have never had a problem.

I get my topo maps from Canada Map Sales in Winnipeg. I usually pick them up in person but have also ordered online and received them within about a week. They come in regular or waterproof paper. There is a Canoe Route Map index for several popular Canadian canoe routes listing which map...

-41C here at Riding Mountain this morning. At least there's no wind.

Fantastic photos and story! Thanks for letting us in on it.

My son and I came across this one on Baffin Island. How could that not make your day.