Seymour

I wish U and yours all the best. Started my little one at two in the back country, and car camping before that. We are always outside. Never a sun burn. No DEET, just a bug shirt that was rolled that he grew into. The PFD is completely doable. The things that minime has seen and done in the BW, well most never get the pleasure. Never dumped the canoe or got busted up on a rail. But many trips were four over portages as he was always on the shoulders barring the canoe carry. You know those memories will be my fondest, and his too. The pictures and stories from school and our free time will attest to that. Maybe minime is the exception, MAYBE, 5 hours in a portable ice shack without moving at three..."we gotta catch the big one Daddy". Many a day duffin' on a pack or a camp pad. Man I wish I could have grown up takin' naps on the water in the backcountry.  One of the trick that we did learn was to snack especially before the portages...made for good spirits...and kept the little doggie and big doggie goin'. Minime and I have our little verse to past the time, "we work in all kinds of weather" and we are quieter and PU better than most-our wildlife sightings and "trash kiddy" shows it.  How many can say they caught their first BW laker at 8. Or did the frost in a day at 8. Now  I have carried a Sat phone on the remote loops and he was in the know. And he shined on his own @ nine during an evac. that we got in on last year. I say kudos to you, Seymour, just remember to expect the unexpected and enjoy the good times; the woods are a great classroom brimming with opportunity.

Everyone just chil-lax Seymour is smarter than most -questions are being asked ;)

M