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i have to say, that my one ceremonial high-tech ultra-light-weight gadget in my current kit is a folding titanium spork -- been a few years now, and i think i kinda love it...

+1 on the multipurpose gadget devices, leatherman type tool notwithstanding...do one thing and do it like your life depended on it...

timberline 4 outfitter was my primary canoe tent for 25 years...if i had to pick one tent, that would be it

i also have th Freden -- small simple -- okay for 1 or two

first time i ever heard of a crooked knife, i was a teenage boy scout reading a paul provencher book on woodcraft... and then there is this guy: http://www.blackthunderstudio.com/knives/

it was mason who busted it wide open for me... and as above sig olson & rustrum

i generally thin my oil 2:1 to 3:1 with turps. Makes for more, thinner coats. But penetrates well. is a great mid-season over-wipe for varnish scratches too...keeps water from getting in and stuff on paddle tips and so on

boiled linseed oil and turps...i put that 'stuff' on everything...sometimes a pinch of pine-tar too...

pine tar...

what an amazing set-up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM75NcpFASs skip to the 3:40 mark and you'll get a good view of my dad and grandfather and their old jeep wagon back around 1956...

oh, and yeah canotrouge -- it was the trading post on front...what a great shop...picked up a new harness for the dog while i was there, and fondled the canvas tents...

canoes leave lots of room for big tents and woodstoves -- oct/nov is a great time to hit the 'popular' easy access areas of algonquin in comfort, style, and solitude... me, i have a little property south of bancroft :)

damp-dog smell is one of the best smells...but ya...

so...this showed up at my front door last week...leather looks to be in pretty good shape...some wear holes on the canvas, but nothing too bad...

test...

few winters ago up in Dawson, picked up an HBC blanket...not sure if the sled dog was unimpressed that he was left behind in ontario, or impressed by the wild smells of a used bay blanket from the yukon. long story short was holes. fast foward a few years and i pick up felting needles for a...

got mine from horizon's unlimited also...he also does campfire tents...these things really rock with open-fronted tents! http://www.canoemapscanada.com/2015-02-07-14-55-58/the-environmental-fireplace.html

what a great little trip report -- was just down there the other night watching the sun set over the eastern gap -- took my chum over the same way years ago...nice work on the paddles! my guide paddle is still buried in a 5/4 plank in the garage :)

40mph is about 20 yards a second -- so 4 second warning...

my truck is so old that one time someone broke in and installed a new radio...