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Been a weird year, but I finally got to take a trip to the St Regis Canoe Wilderness. As described elsewhere, I chose to use a portage...

To be truly precarious you need to add more people and a hiking board. It is said that the key to successful small boat sailing is...

Some of us like windy days. Benson

I’ve been looking for an all around tandem that will paddle well as a solo, primarily on smaller rivers, that fits in between my Esquif...

I use a Lexan tablespoon for 99% of my eating. I used one of those long narrow brown spoons (along with the shorter white ones) to eat...

Yeah... CTN is great for that. Makes me glad I've never tried golf.

If I’m being honest, I don’t think that the dry suit was really necessary on this trip. None of the fishermen I ran into were even...

I loved the way you set this up with the goals. Excellent. Such a vivid and well-written account — really captures the experience.

After posting here looking for advice, I set out to spend a couple days solo in the ADK, trying to get in a first trip just after ice...

Interesting... I'd always heard the Pennsylvania & West Virginia were the only 2 places on the planet that would eat bear. Glad it's...

Just got back from 4 days on Fish Pond in the St Regis... I had the place to myself (no one on Fish, Little Fish, Little Long, Lydia, or...

Emergency rescue service aside, I can't help but to mourn in a big way for wilderness lost. I spent many years enjoying and refining my...

Mmmmmm....good! This being an old thread from 2017, I hope COVID didn't kill any of these good eateries. Here we have Flying Pie...

My introduction to sporks was around six years of age at a Taco Bell on the corner of W. Washington St. and Lynhurst Dr. in...

The cam buckles look like this.