Well, Jon, I am glad that your friend dragged his trashed guitar over every portage, because the alternatives would have been to throw it in the lake, hide it in the brush somewhere, or burn it up, right?  None of these are good environmentally sound options.   ;D

And I TOTALLY agree with you about the canoe trip videos!  To the point that I now watch canoe trip videos, if I watch them at all, with the sound turned off.  If I ever made a video, or even a slide show, I don't think it would have any music.  It just distracts me from the beauty of the photos.

At one point, when I was younger, I knew a couple Voyageur songs.  I didn't even sing these out loud--just in my mind.  Silence is, indeed, golden.   :)