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Should've replaced those CarbFibe rails with ash gunnels. lol

Cripes, I forgot what lake ice looked like in spring. Last time I spent any time on it we were playing shinny. Nice pics of a great time, thanks for these. Wish I were there.

I'm told the riffles and rapids on Lawyers Creek are hard to read and mistakes can be very costly to deal with.

Not every relic can be recovered. We have indigenous grandchildren, one of whom is doing her masters degree in indigenous studies etc. She also researches treaties, early settler diaries, and geneology. All fascinating stuff to her old grandad, so I didn't miss the opportunity this morning over...

Our 115L Pro is still going strong. Very comfortable and huge. I see they're 120L now, which can be a better thing. They do seem to work better the fuller they are.

I'd never heard of those paper hanky things until I started dating a girl whose mother insisted on table etiquette and stuff. I eventually married that girl and my world has been forever changed. We now use cloth (can you believe it?!) napkins at dinner (another interchangeable word). I've only...

This a typical easy cheap plastic bandage treating a festering wound. While it helps, a little, to cover the unsightliness it does nothing to treat the cause. IMO the answer involves the 3 E's. Education and enforcement. Both can be applied at the desk and in the field. But these take another E...

We have a "traditional" family recipe very similar to this which has been revived in recent years, mostly because we dearly miss the generation that came before us who passed on their cookbooks. They left us with food stained hand written instructions that sons, daughters and grandkids have...

Blab: Portage like garage (with similarly French origins pertaining to water travel) maybe ought to be prounounced correctly, keeping in mind that etymology is fluid ; but we are all free to acquire and exercise knowledge as we please ...or not if that's your choice. The beauty of language is...

Wishing you a sure and steady recovery Patrick, and heal well.

Likewise, a similar water sandal proved to be a fail for me for the same reasons. They collected grit and pebbles while never providing grip.

Interesting concept canoe. Until recently I thought you were building a tippy canoe and wondered why. Having found and worn my reading glasses I see you're building a trippy canoe and still wondering why. But it could be fun so I'll hang around. Man. lol I was born in the 50s so I was never...

Nice find, and in very good condition. Finding any with perfect bottoms must be a rarity. I treated mine with grapeseed oil to make them reasonably "non-stick". So far they've held up well, but I take care not to scorch them. The thinness transfers heat so ridiculously fast it's easy to burn...

"...These and a good supply of pasties got us through many miles of UP backroads." It's all in the pronounciation... I'm assuming you're referring to the delectable pastry, but I could be wrong, and there's nothing wrong with that either. It was your trip...

Hang in there Josh, live and learn, and don't take the criticism too hard. You'll never please everybody. And while I can never see me using this device I'm glad to see others making good use of it.