SouthernKevlar

Out in the bush I use fire mainly for cooking. My trips last 4-6 weeks and it would be very challenging to take enough fuel with me...

The Buffalo River in Arkansas, 1973 (Easter Weekend) My immediate family had set up a sort of mini-reunion with parents and some of the...

Last night in our son's kitchen my wife and I eased back in the rickety chairs and commenced to party, passing around the boxes of...

Found this over on The Canadian Canoe Museum FB page. Canoeing Myths Busted by James Raffan DISPELLING FIVE FAMILIAR, FALSE...

There is something primal about a campfire that reaches to the soul and spirit of a person. Perhaps it touches the "genetic memory"...

Maybe you could deploy the sock behind you and use it to slow you down; think of it as compression braking for a canoe with an...

Evening Gentlemen, This trip I had thought about for quite sometime after hearing the tales from locals in Valemount about this...

The factory kneeling drops are well set for me, but I am over 6' and have 35" inseams. My biggest issue is getting my size 12 shoes...

I fly fish almost exclusively with cane (bamboo from Tonkin, China) some nearly a hundred years old. Mostly eight footers, some fairy...

I started this thread after a cross country trip across the southern tier of the United States, South Carolina to California, and now...

The Great Replacement of Canoes in the U.S. has been accelerating for decades now. Canoes are now somewhat prevalent only in...

It's another magazine list. Some of the rules are modestly humorous. https://paddlingmag.com/skills/how-to-be-a-happy-camper/

I sometimes use a wood straight shaft, sometimes a carbon bent shaft and often a carbon DOUBLE-BENT shaft. Now that should muddy the...

Look back and remember. Look around and learn. Look forward and hope. Here's wishing you many great travels with the new trailer on...

I have done a lot of canoeing in the last 64 years, and plenty of outdoor trips having an outdoor career. I will never make it to the...