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I've never heard anyone compare Blue Steel or Northstar's Blacklite to Royalex. TuffStuff and IXP are the layups with Basalt that are the replacement for Royalex. Either way you knew what you bought it for and are getting the most out of it. That's what I love about kevlar/carbon layups. As long...

Boiled linseed is the fastest, but I don't like all the chemicals in it. I have switched to a 60/40 ratio of tung oil and turpentine for new handles. and simple linseed/flax oil for maintenance. It takes about 5 days for the flax oil to cure, you can speed it up with temp and air. I have found...

I personally bring a 5 gallon bucket with built in toilet seat lined with a garbage bag. Unfortunately very few people are willing to do it, and they islands have become a giant latrine.

I generally use a leather glove but it is intended to be used with a pot lifer. I have always had a handle and was concerned, but pot lifter is easy to use and works on all my cookware.

After a full tripping season of use I can highly recommend the Fry Bake pan. Hard Anodized aluminum is harder than SS and lighter. You can use metal utensils, and it's easy to clean. I recently purchased a power source and am in the process of hard anodizing my other aluminum pots for winter...

I would imagine we would all like to trip where people aren't, but that is getting harder and harder to do. At 1 million acres there is plenty of wilderness and isolation in the BWCA, you just have to put a full days travel in.

There already is in a sense. On January 25th you have about 30 seconds to book the more popular entry points. Not a lottery, but there are only so many people allowed to enter per day.

Absolute necessity in heavily used areas like the BWCA. I wish they would install them along the Saint Croix National Scenic Waterway. You can't dig a cat hole on any of the islands without hitting toilet paper. They want you to pack it out but that will never happen with the crowd that uses...

Thank you for measuring. My first canoe was a Wenonah Prospector 16 with 25 inch bow and stern height. I soloed it for years with no more issues in the wind than my B16 with 21 inch Bow. I would prefer it had 24 inch bow and stern heights like the Wenonah Prospector 15, but I like that they...

From the bow seat backwards.

I bought the 10 inch one. Love it!

Likes are particularly useful for a long post or trip report that someone has put a lot of time and effort into. I don't always have something to say in response, but I really appreciate the photos, content, etc. Don't care for a reaction score.

I contacted Esquif but they never got back to me. Does anyone know the bow and stern height on their prospector models?

From my understanding they do this every year for winter trips.

Can you post a link? I could not find any info about them closing their doors.

Looking to purchase an alcohol heater if anyone has one they are no longer using.

View from Hammock in BWCA OCT 2021

You can use shavings with a fire steel, but curls work best.

I carry a two or three inch piece of fatwood for tinder. Where I camp is usually thoroughly picked over, so no birch bark and only large dead wood so an axe is very important to me in wet weather. With 7-10 curls of fat wood and split dry kindling I have always been able to get a fire started...