First ... FANTASTIC JOB!   [smiley=thumbup.gif] [smiley=thumbup.gif] [smiley=thumbup.gif]  As soon as this drifts off the first page, its being added to the "HOT SPOT."  It should be a "first read" by anyone becoming interested in canoe camping and a "refresher course" for those who have been doing it for a while.  I was even wondering if Stu might be interested in publishing the list in an upcoming BWJ issue.


intrepid_camper wrote on Mar 1^st, 2007 at 5:13pm:

RE: coffee....maybe we should have said "don't forget your favorite 'comfort' food".

I was thinking the same thing ... "comfort food."  

Also, I've been taking my "pee bottle" into the tent for about the last 10 years.  My version is more like two zip lock baggies (one inside the other) that are "air tested" before I crawl in each evening.  It doesn't always get used, but as you get older the urge to go in the middle of the night is more pronounced.  And it almost never fails ... the urge will hit in the middle of an overnight rain storm ... maybe its the sound of the rain drops hitting the tent's rain fly.

And yes, the container get's sent outside the tent after use.  (My long time traveling partner DIDN'T do that once to disasterous consequences.  The line by Alan Shepard from the "Apollo 13" movie comes to mind.)  Its dumped in deep in the woods the next AM, rinsed and placed over a small bushy branch to dry (if a layover day) ... and I've yet to loose one, even on a windy day.

dd