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First paddle of the year today. Still more ice than open water. That mountain in the back is the new open pit mine in G-Town. The perspective is off, it's a massive hill of arsenic filled dirt, at least 200 feet tall already. Some people see money, some people see an ugly hill, I'm of the...

Wouldn't work up here, as our ice is almost immediately covered by several feet of snow, and then develops anywhere from six inches to 3 feet of slush. If we have a good year, the slush disappears in February, leaving a harder layer of snow that can be travelled on, but I don't think it would...

The thing about these new watches is that they can take over your life. Between worrying about your sleep score, your "Body battery life" (it figures out your energy surpluses and minuses it like a video game character), your step count, your heart rate, your blood pressure (which rises...

I've recently purchased a Garmin Fenix 7. It was on sale for a great price. One aspect of that watch, beyond the mapping capabilities, is the built in flashlight. I would say it is the one thing I use the most. It's brighter than my phone flashlight. The battery life is fantastic. I uploaded...

I can add a couple off observations to the innie-outtie debate, lol. I have always put a football on the outside (football first, under the full sheet). However, the only major destructive events that have happened with my canoes have been inside hull separations, which lends credibility to...

I've been rethinking this, it seems to me there are all kinds of new, younger wilderness canoetrippers, at least on social media. They are probably more responsible for recruiting newbies to paddling than any of us old codgers. If you look at YouTube or Instagram or any of those platforms...

Someone give me a spork once, I'm not sure what happened to it. I'll probably get flamed for this, but I put sporks and Tilley hat's in the same company, items that the cool kids have.

I thought you paddled the Berens river too Alan, so wouldn't that add Manitoba to your list?

Perhaps you are right, I guess its just sour grapes on my part, I was unhappy when they dumped the J. Winters line. On the other hand, I priced out a light weight solo from swift with all the bells and whistles and it came in around 8000 canadian, which seems like a lot of dough to me. I suppose...

Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba. I would really like to come down to the USA one of these days for some international paddling.

Excellent trip report, very funny!

I've put hundreds of teenagers through wilderness trips. Some of them even enjoyed it. The thing is, it is now a sport for the financially well off, not for a young couple just starting off and wanting to add to humanity with a litter of future tax payers. Look at the price of swift...

There was a group of us in 2015 who made it happen. https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/marshall-2015.33745/

Looks like it is around $1300 for basic kit, with add ons up to $2000.00 US, so like a million bucks Canadian. Sell it and buy a second canoe.

Lol, Jim actually said it a few responses up the page. This is now my new favorite way, I looked at the sawstop fence today, and go that issue fixed. I can run ten 8 foot boards at the same thickness through in a couple of minutes, and the consistency of the strips is very good. Going to...

We are dealing with an open pit gold mine. Despite lip service to environmental guidelines, it is proving to be an ecological disaster for the immediate area. If you can protest the development, go for it. The disaster unfolding around us will not be fixed in my lifetime.

Ended up trapped in training h@ll longer than expected, so only got 10 boards cut up. Ran into one problem. The fence in our table saw is persnickety. Once you have set the position, when you lock it down, the fence moves in a fraction. This made it difficult to set the fence perfectly....it...

I'm working with 8 foot by 4 inch, so pretty manageable. I do keep my eye on the jig, if one of the boards is slightly wider and you jam it through, the jig could open up a tiny bit. Out of the 20 strips I cut the other day, one was on the heavy side, from when I first started. I'm hoping to...

You might be on to something, a clear canoe would be very cool. Plexiglass comes pretty thin too, sure wouldn't want to bead and cove it though!

I could be wrong, I usualky am, but if doing multiple boards at the same time without moving the fence for each board, I can't see how they wouldn't have to be the same width . Narrower boards wouldn't contact the blade, and wider boards wouldn't fit between the jig and the fence.