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I have an Old Town Tripper that was purchased around 2010 or 2011 and it has never been used. It has been stored in my shed since it...

Cut your poles once. Find them where ever you can, not in a campground. How do you carry a canoe? Put the poles next to your boat and...

And the canoe?

Not canoe camping, but car camping in Theodore Roosevelt National Park last year. Beautiful park by the way, and a bit of hidden gem...

We bought 2 of these Green Elephant last year. No complaints. We use 2 of them for a high side of the tarp, and use spare paddles on the...

Here’s my wife’s Royalex Yellowstone 88 1/2” to the front of the seat.

Symmetrical vs asymmetrical probably should be taken into account as well. J. Winter's designs gather width as they progress toward the...

I’m a bit more than half way through The Gales Of November, about the sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald and what it was like to be in the...

I’m a bit more than half way through The Gales Of November, about the sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald and what it was like to be in the...

interesting idea there for a quick lunch setup. Jim

I ran across this old engineer's scale, from my cartographic drafting days. I started hand drafting maps from pencil manuscripts to...

I bout a couple pairs of telescoping poles, but use 3, 2 with mounts in the canoe and one tied off to rocks or driftwood logs.

I recently finished Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell by Adam Shoalts. It was a fantastic read (I...