I can handle pretty much anything, but bush bashing with a canoe on your back is always brutal.C-Mag wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:51 pmI can handle a canoe on flat water, which isn't saying much. But that river shit is another level.Smitty-48 wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:48 pmI'm old hat, been canoeing since I was in short pantsC-Mag wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:37 pm Canoeing is a skill...……….. and I don't think I know WTF I'm doing. It's fun, I do it, but I also realize there's tons of shit about it I don't know.
in the army I was on the military ironman team, that's rucksack run, canoe and portage.
Canoeing is easy, portage is the hard part.
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Everyone talks about if you could go back in history and see something.
On my list is watching early 19th C fur trappers with 20 ft birch bark canoes navigating rivers. In fact their entire lives. Those guys were the ultimate Rangers.
On my list is watching early 19th C fur trappers with 20 ft birch bark canoes navigating rivers. In fact their entire lives. Those guys were the ultimate Rangers.
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I've done it with a 16 foot birch, Gitigan style, the Indians still make them the old way.C-Mag wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:02 pm Everyone talks about if you could go back in history and see something.
On my list is watching early 19th C fur trappers with 20 ft birch bark canoes navigating rivers. In fact their entire lives. Those guys were the ultimate Rangers.
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My sons & I did 2 weeks on the Bowron Lakes, portaging a 150 lb fiberglass canoe. I still have that POS.
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