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where are you located -- i just passed on a like-new woods #200 for $125cdn in niagara-falls ontario... i have too-many canvas packs...

i use a medium alice for backcountry skiing -- it's very durable and mostly adequate. it's easy to pack it with way too much weight way too far from the body. the frame is okay for heavier loads, but again, for BC skiing, it moves everything too far out, and likes to come-around. the...

nice work!

paddled a disco 159 a few falls ago on the Grand River in ontario (a free rental/outfit day-trip) -- nice and stable, when going with the current, and a shallow draft, but a little barge-y when the water slowed down...the molded tractor buckets are a little restricting as far as bum-shuffling...

rainbow trout! never even considered that as a webbing colour...

i lived in hadashville MB for a spell quite some time ago...

i've always added boot-lace when i replace seats, it seems functional, durable, and aesthetically neutral -- doesn't look too out of place in a tripping boat -- i've never much cared for the look of webbing, and its wetter in the wet -- that synthetic snowshoe lace looks excellent! i may have to...

i hope its an amazing vista at the far end of that portage...sympathy and condolences

zinc oxide & bag balm... (plus alcohol, superglue, and some tape...) ibuprofen and antihistamine

No Title yakima... very easy-on/easy off

No Title my first w/c canoe was a 14' tremblay...that was in the 80's -- a cute little solo boat, tho i moved onto a chum when i found one...i still have the 'stern' seat hanging in the garage...the verolite was faded to an odd peach sort of colour...it responded well enough to a coat of marine...

totally anecdotal evidence, but a 17' prospector goes noticeably faster than the same brand, nova-craft, in 16' when loaded with similar loads...catches more wind too...

weather's just another form of scenery -- i mean you get what you get -- that's half the fun...

i once sat on a rock, beside a lake, in the summer, and read mary oliver's 'wild geese' cover to cover in one sitting... my trips now are almost always solo, or once and a while, with one other person...groups don't excite me much these days

great paddles! my preferred tripping shape too...tho my backup is a beaver

hankies are handy, bandannas indispensable...

the steam-heat should help re-set the woods memory... my hardware store dowel pole is 25 years old, a little warped, but no breakage...

so many digital maps these days... backcountry skiing this winter, i switched from a paper-map in a vinyl map-case to a digital map, printed and laminated at my local quick-copy place...about $3 a sheet. large-scale, i punch a hole in the corner and hang it off a retractable id-badge holder...

No Title Selwyn Dewdney's son Christopher is an interesting canadian poet, if that's the sort of thing one finds interesting... also, there's a nice lake in the chiniguchi chain norht-east of sudbury ontario named after dewdney; here's the view from the abandoned fire-ranger cabin last summer

wrap the warped section in towels and pour a couple kettles-worth of boiling water on it while you have it under tension in the 'conterbend' direction...