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Great write-up and lovely shots of your canoes. Cheese dogs & KD dinner will be on my future menu. Fantastic message on your resurrected sign and encouraging that folks seem to have respected the camp site.

2nd trip of 2017...lucky you. Thanks for posting all the links to your gear choices. Nice to see what other people are using out there.

Beautiful pack. You scored a deal given the dollar exchange. Enjoy it!

FrozenTripper: Read the same news this morning. I've paddled this exact area many times. In spring flood the falls are very picturesque but also powerful. There's a generating station tucked away behind the main waterfall so the area is very well marked with large danger signs, orange...

If interested, the image is from this article on Canadian Woodworking... https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/plans-projects/make-wannigan

The adjustable angles split in half and are loosened or tightened with a 6mm hex bolt. The ridge pieces slip into the O shaped hole between them and when the bolts are fully tightened, it clasps very tight, especially on a wood dowel. So it does not move or flop over. Problem is that if your...

Great work Robin! That's an awesome bit of canoe surgery. Did you keep the ribs & planking you removed? Maybe you can re-use them to make one of those fancy curved wanigans...

You all know I'm a traditionalist to the extreme. Nothing beats hand-eye coordination like using a skinny animal tail mini paddle! Although annoyingly yelling out "HUT" on every backhand sometimes confuses the opponent.

Maybe the engineers of those Helinox chairs will work their magic and make a 2 lb backcountry billiard table that folds up to the size of a nalgene bottle.

Updated the original post with the Amazon.ca link to the angle joints. Just under 9$ Canadian a piece with cheap shipping too. Never expected them to be high quality but should hold up well enough for my planned usage. I'm not taking this thing on an expedition across Labrador or something...

Seeing all those great photos & videos of Robin's customized wall tent gave me some serious cravings for a canvas shelter. Been spending part of the winter making my own custom version as a sort of prototype. It's a 7x7x 6 with 3foot walls. Canvas drop cloth roof with side panels and backwall...

Really nice seeing all that winter gear being used. Sure looks warm and toasty. Robin, about that pic with the view of your hot fire through the stovepipe. Does your stovejack modification with the bolted metal sheets get very hot too? Would you get burned if you touched the metal sheet with a...

Not much of a fisherman, but used some scraps to make a landing net. The hoop was made by soaking a strip of sassafras in hot water (in the bathtub) and bending around a cooking pot. Here's a pic after it dried overnight. The handle was left over black walnut. Used an old mesh laundry bag for...

Beautiful photos and great writeup. Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed report!

Robin, you're a man of many talents my friend! Good luck with the canoe sales.

Here is some fun, canoe-themed artwork by Marilynn Dwyer-Mason... American Rustic Tippy Canoe

Wow. Lovely footage by a professional film maker. Will this become the next generation's Waterwalker?

Great project CanotRouge. I can see you putting that on top of your wanigan during a portage.

I don't either but am very cautious about where I attempt to pole.

Like how neat and tidy that Fast Bucksaw can be stored. Thanks for posting.