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I canoed the border along the entire boundary waters and some parts are very hard to navigate. One day I managed to portage my canoe 2km into the US, instead of taking a very poorly marked turn in the trail to keep along the border. Both on the water
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Nice video! I carried a Tacoma SAR unit just like the one depicted for several years, for exactly the same reason - it was a metal container in which liquids could be heated.....
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Breast cancer awareness fobs/pulls The small pulls are made from the ends left over after tightening the single strand star knots.
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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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Well, I finally watched the video and I want a gold star. They take way to long to make an obvious point - that first aid training will come in handy some day, in very unpredictable ways. True enough, but it does not require thirty minutes of two g
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Definitely not enough information from which to draw meaningful conclusions. But when temps get as high as the southwest us is experiencing, it is time to change your normal outdoor patterns
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Very sad story...a pair of missing hikers, a father and son, were found dead in Carlsbad Caverns. From the story: The extraordinary heat wave gripping the western United States has so far been blamed for at least four deaths, authorities said Wedn
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We got out of the fleet, built tow, and sailed in stormy weather. An hour later, the clouds started parting, the sun started shining but the wind kept blowing. We finally got onto the dock and have now set HurCon 5.
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Forgot to add... please don't start a wildfire with your signaling methods.
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Interesting video, they did a pretty good AAR that will hopefully get some of their followers to adjust what they carry, get some training and change some behaviors to be better prepared for a medical emergency. One of the key points they made was ho
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