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Has anyone ever run Glasby Creek from Glasby Pond to the Oswegatchie in the 5-Ponds Wilderness? I watched a trip report on YouTube where a man and his wife put in near Wanakena at the Cat Mountain Trailhead, portaged across to near Dannick's Landing, over to Cat Mountain, a bunch of the 5...

I use one of two full length NeoAIRs, depending on the trip and the season... the yellow and the grey, the one lighter at about 16oz, the other more insulated and slightly heavier at 18oz. Both are thick enough for side-sleeping comfort FOR ME. I have come to prefer the grey one, just because...

I live in MD. I got an EZ Pass when I moved here because that's what you do (toll bridges mostly, but some roads, on some routes). When I've car topped a canoe in the past, I detached it from its velcro holder behind my mirror and just threw it over in the passenger corner of the front dash...

How I eat: Dinners, as you mentioned, are dehydrated. Olive oil adds needed calories/fat, and is one of the more effective means of doing that, per ounce, over other foods. Breakfast is oatmeal w/raisins, tea, and bacon. Lunches are bagels, landjaeger or jerky, cheese, dried fruit, tea...

I've realized that I either immediately like or dislike a given YouTuber's content... In most cases, when I detect the least bit of careless risk, insincerity, false bravado, glitz, emphasis on gear, or over-exposed flesh (female Tuber tactic), I'm out... I have a list of about a dozen YouTubers...

The older I get (60 last year), the more this conversation resonates... I remember a pretty heated discussion on the old SoloTripping forum, maybe 12 years or more ago, on the very same topic... iirc, the older you are, the more likely you are to approve of a tracking device, for the dual...

I've so far only done days... don't have the time yet for weeks or months. but yes... the isolation is like REM sleep... it allows you to process things. A friend of mine claimed to have been one of the first Continental Divide Trail thru hikers, before it was really finished, doing so in part...

That's between 400 and 800 lbs or so. My suggestion, depending on temperature, would have been to melt it with hot water... once loose, the ice might float and be easier to break up with less damage (not that you did any) to the boat breaking it up.

I once watched a pair of coyotes (there were probably a couple more in the area) working together to kill a deer... amazing ballet that moved out of sight after a short time, but I'm pretty sure I know how it ended. I've also been awakened by the cry of a rabbit being caught and eaten, which in...

I defended my bag against the maker of my avatar... So yeah, I'd throw rocks and shine light until Br'er Bruin went away. (It works. or did for me that one time.) I've actually had 3x run-ins with who I think is the same bear in the same part of a certain park I frequent, over the span of a...

I've used a couple things: Repositioning a small child or dog Food bag, day pack, and some other gear out of my main pack 2x water bladders, filled with the intent of adding weight A fairly large rock (in a wood canvas canoe; do not do this with a carbon fiber one.) A piece of heavy, wet...

Hemlock Nessmuk XL... picked up in Aug of 2019. Just Watco teak oil on the wood. Perfect condition. For comparison, my paddle in the background is two-tone, partly sunlight, but also from the finish... the yellow is some sort of resin and the grey is where I sanded it off and used boiled...

I have a hand-laid canoe and love it. Any blemishes remind me of the intensely personal relationship between the product and the maker... seems more like a unique sculpture vs a mass-cast bronze reproduction. 22lbs, with real wood trim, is light enough for me. Others may prefer otherwise, and...

I grew up about 20-30 miles south of @yknpdlr, near Syracuse, in the same era. We got a week of bitter cold, the "Siberian High" or "Alberta Clipper"/polar vortex being a normal thing every couple years in Jan or Feb, bringing temps a little below zero F... I also remember a thing we called the...

Both portaging and paddling. The buddy I was referring to had a roughly 18' (may have been longer) "ultralight" carbon fiber lake kayak that he apparently used for kayaking on the Great Lakes... It weighed in excess of 50lbs, probably closer to 75, and possibly more. So it took two of us to...

I saw this (knee pockets) on YouTube just yesterday... old guy took the back patch pockets off his old jeans and sewed them on to the new pants at the knee, and stuck carpet pad scraps into them so he could do home DIY repair projects... thought it was clever. I'd prefer velcro-closed ones...

Canoes-only here... have used kayaks, never "got it"... pack canoe is lighter, faster, easier in/out, greater cargo capacity, can move around more, etc. Full sized canoe is even better because you can stand up and stretch if you need to. I've tripped with people who kayaked because it's what...

I use boots for different things... for canoeing, I have a pair of neoprene NRS Boundary Boots, and they come up to just below my knee, for which I am grateful. for hunting, and canoeing before the NRS boots, I have a pair of Muck Boot Edgewaters... again, almost knee high. for snow, I have...

I usually paddle a sit-on-bottom Hemlock Nessmuk XL, with a double paddle... My Chum is a single stick, but I bring a double on some trips, in case of wind... I know there are tricks to it, but I just feel like I'm making better use of my energy in the wind with a double paddle.

Can't remember when I last posted here... latest books are Forest Walking, Grant's autobiography, History of Western Philosophy, and Life of Trees, among others.