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Originally Posted By: PhaedrusAwesome videos, bacpacjac! All the credit goes to WCD! I just keep these in my reference library. He's the wizard!
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Awesome videos, bacpacjac!
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Glad you had a good trip, WCD. Smart thinking to stay on shore in a storm like that. Not worth the risk.
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Originally Posted By: KenKCanoedogs, I wanted to ask you what you carry on your PFD. I suspect its already posted on this forum somewhere though, and its probably the subject of a different thread. Ken This is a few years old, but it's always in
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You probably don't even need the $250 in the United States, and definitely not in a National Park. Also helpful is a good map, signalling devices, and plenty of water or nowledge of a good source,,,
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I haven't brought this up till now because most people don't bring handheld transceivers with them but another use came to mind. I've been finding radio pouches at Army-Navy Surplus stores for my boat's crew, at $5 each. We spend $75-$100 each for
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Canoedogs, I wanted to ask you what you carry on your PFD. I suspect its already posted on this forum somewhere though, and its probably the subject of a different thread. Ken
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Glad your trip went well. I didn't know that in Canada you are allowed to camp anywhere. I thought it was all fire grate = camp. Huh. It seems that would leave the Canadian shores spotted with former campfire scars. I have a real respect for the
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So sad!!!!!!! Personal Locator Beacon, $250, provides rescue just about anywhere on the planet. Then again, they may not have even survived until rescue came. Sigh
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Yeah, we'll probably never get much for details about what went wrong. Did they get lost? Were they undone by a mechanical injury? The bodies were found one day apart so my guess (if I had to guess) that one of them was physically unable to contin
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back from my trip with no real problems but on a nasty,stormy day in my shelter I was watching the lake whip up. the thought was that if I swamped in that and just had my PFD with the survival gear in it I would still be in a world of hurt. a fire
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when I was in the Army in the late 60's guys would have their name and SS tattooed on a foot.word was that body part was most likely to be recovered being in a heavy combat boot. on canoe trips I have a extra Vets Hospital ID card in my PFD.
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