Me and my buddy always travel together in solo canoes. I like it that way. I also like traveling solo by myself to get away from the infernal complications of humans. My buddy and i sort of swap off leadership stuff..when it comes to white water, I usually scout it and pick a line, when it comes to finding ports, he's the pro...its a good working relationship. I've got another friend who sits in my bow and paddles all day without complaint, but has no experience in the woods, if i died, he'd be in big trouble. But he's a heck of a funny guy, keeps us all laughing during the trip.
Everyone has their uses, although the idea of a portable meat supply had only occurred to me one time, when a guy that came with us started having chest pains in the middle of the Kapikotongwa river, where extraction would have been very difficult. At that time, I had brought more booze than food, and I was cooking on a coleman one bottle propane stove that tipped over and the food for me and funny guy sank into the forest floor. The guy with chest pains had a hockey bag full of deer sausage, and had made some very hard deals with involving trading one small sausage for a considerable amount of booze.
We weren't hoping for his demise, but because of his frugal bargaining, we both agreed that if he went down, we were co-opting the sausage bag. He made a full recovery that night, and because our food had spilled, he made an even sharper deal. The Yankee trader of the North, lol!
