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I’ll try a backpack. I do a bunch of two to three day trips. For longer trips I have two bills bags and food storage.

Thanks for the input. I expect most of the time I will double portage. My backpack is very comfortable for me, with internal dry bags I could not think of a good reason not to use it on a 2.5 day trip.

I have owned/own Duluth Packs, Bills Bags, Watershed and various dry bags. The idea of using a 70L backpacking backpack with smaller dry bags inside, instead of two 60L Bills bags, seams like it would be great in the ADK or Boundary Waters for portaging. A hiking backpack is more comfortable...

I like small portage signs and official camp site badges to mark locations, I think they help maintain the tundra and footprint of man. One of my pet peeves is seeing signs of civilization when on a long portage. When I am working that hard in the woods I like to maintain the illusion that I...

Coleman, was not mine and quite a pos. Had a build in cooler because, I guess, they had a design goal of making it over 80 lbs.

Buffalo NY area this morning.

It is a Phoenix

ADK third week on October

Eagle River in Wisconsin in a Grumman canoe at summer camp.

The Floodwood Pond loop is a popular loop in the St Regis Canoe Wilderness in the Adirondacks. It is a nice trip, I did it in late October. I would suggest this be a first ice out or late season trip. The route takes you through a very heavily used camp ground, Fish Creek State Park and there is...

Thats is the point, he became entrapped by a non locking carabiner

Please, please, please use locking carabineers on a boat. I don't care that it is flatwater, they are dangerous. Noting wrong with cheep, all my bineers are cheep and not fit for climbing, but they are all locking, even the little 1 inch ones used to keep ditty bags organized. Google...

Most likely to leave my tent light, even this time of year I have it on for only a few minutes and could just as easily use my headlamp. I always bring a gps, radio and phone wile tripping. Don't really need a gps and hope never to need the phone. The gps is a luxury item to me, between the gps...

7 days of supplies for an early fall trip. I think this was 55-60 pounds. Had first aid kit and large tarp and poles for group I was with in there as well. At this point every portage is a double portage :) 35 years ago, with much heavier boats, and packs, I don't even remember considering a...

Tiny Pump for my air mattress. I'm almost embarrassed to use it every time, but the Thermarest Topo Luxe mattress is big and comfortable and inflating it with the inflation bag is slow at times and sucks in the rain. With the pump, I can inflate in a small tent and keep everything dry.

Not an issue

Hello from Western NY

Interesting reading here, think I'll stick to the car shuttles and portaging to get to remote places :)

Sign on Raquette River in the ADK (Mike posing with sign)