Bob B.

Great looking picture with dramatic looking “ fish scale “ clouds. 👍🛶

First warm day of the year at 68* north. Good to be back on the water after a long winter.

Camp #1141 on the North Kawishiwi river in the BWCA. This was taken last Friday on my first ever trip to the BWCA.

You can also use it in a strong wind. With your paddle in the water at all times you minimize the chance that you will lose control of...

I’m reading the book “Last of the Coureurs de Bois” by Paul Provencher. He spent lots of time with the Montagnais in Quebec, and he had...

Won’t be long, northwest Ontario

My wife and I completed a tandem whitewater course at NOC this past weekend. It was a blast and we learned a lot. My wife found out she...

A nice article about poling a canoe here in Maine. I have met the guides, one of the few outfits that use wood canvas canoe with...

Getting close now. 4 coats of primer and one coat of color are on the hull. The outwales are fully shaped, sanded, and first coated...

My dogs chase bears out of camp. I have never used a bear vault in 64 years of canoeing and backpacking, and I have never seen anyone...

First time I ever looked at all those bear proof products. The cylinder style things look really nice, but why do they make them so...

I’m in Ely right now, and just spent a small fortune on an Ursack and Opsack liners, and I’m okay with it. My first time in the...

Another good use for dental floss is eyeglass repair. If you lose a hinge screw or an eyewire screw, thread dental floss through a few...

Around here you have to look pretty hard at the grocery store to find buckwheat flour but most of the feed mills in the area still sell...

In late April 1984 a buddy and I entered the USFS Sylvania Recreation Area in the UP of Michigan at the north end of Clark Lake, a lake...