My thinking for June in WCP with consecutive years of wet weather would be to be ready for the winged menace. I bet the bugs might be a little tough.

That high water probably would be a benefit on your route though Ben.
The netting might be a hassle to unhook and hook at portage landings though. If your a chicken like me and not apt to paddle in the breakers away from shore you might get by not tying in at all. I'm thinking a biner clipped into a strap around a thwart sort of thing for on the river. I think my bags will float for the most part anyway and I just don't want them going for a ride down the river. My thinking is a leash of sorts. Maybe an eyebolt through my railing would be better. Sure wouldn't want a damaged thwart.

If I ever move up to being a white water man I would have to follow suit with Jimbo and get a spray cover. The Bloodvein to Winnipeg sounds like a lot of fun to me.

ST
Good advice. Thank you for sharing it.

I am wondering about the painters trailing from the bow and stern to your seat though. I have mine coiled and secured to the handpulls. Please understand I am not insinuating what's right or wrong as I am truly in need of instruction as I am mostly self taught by trial and error and what I have read in books.

Aren't you concerned that the lines could tangle in some gear at the worst possible moment :question  

Shoot, I'm going to have to think about this for a while. I have all kinds of stuff a rope could get tangled on.

Reels, GPS, depth finder, sandals and so on. I see the advantage but wonder if the cure might end up being worse than the disease.

I'll take a peek after I get a hold of the boat and load up. I like the idea of being able to jump out rope in hand especially if you slip and have to recover yourself. A possible, even likely event given a little growth on the rocks. Easy to picture the boat, minus it's operator, continuing its sightseeing tour.

That........would be a sinking feeling...................
       

Hopefully, the data you are talking about in conjunction to your e-mail is in the form of attachment ... a file.

If that is the case, you want to save the file (files) to your computer's hard drive (disc).  Depending on your e-mail system, if you click your mouse on the name of the file you will get a list of choices of what you want to do with the file.  (In some systems, this is a right-button mouse click.  You may also have to indicated that you wish to allow the download (file saving) before you can proceed further.  This process is a function of your virus protection software and/or firewall.)  Select the "Save As" option and your computer will respond with a window indicating where it is about to save the material and its file name.  These default choices (location and name) may be OK with you, but I find it desirable to keep mapping files mostly in the same general locations  (and not necessarily "My Documents").  It is generally NOT a good idea to change the file name extension (the part following the period in the full file name, as this is often used by software as a "recognition symbol".)  In any case, once the file is saved, you can then go to your Garmin Mapsource and open the file.  If it is a compatible file, then it will be loaded (you may notice changes to the content of whatever was previously in the left window of your screen, where current "resources" are listed.  However, you may not see them on the map (unless the last map viewed was for the same general area as the positions indicated by the new data).  The quickest way to get all parts on the "same page" is to click on one of the items in your left-window and then ask the software to show that location on the map.  (One drawback of the software here, in my opinion, is that it will zoom to a level that magnifies that location ... which means you'll need to zoom back out to get a meaningful perspective).

Let me now how this works and then we'll talk about something more complicated.  Also, I'm doing this off the top of my head and I could have omitted something important.

dd

DD,
Rather than pose these questions privately I am hoping the time you are taking may benefit others as well. And I do thank you for your time BTW. It will be my intention to be a blessing back to you some day.

I have received Martins list of portages, campsites and points of interest. The list automatically appeared in my Basecamp list column as did all the icons on the map itself.

I have spent the last hour trying to gain control of the list. What I would like to do is to remove the icons from the map and deal with them piecemeal or one at a time. Adding and removing them as I see fit. Certainly that must be possible, correct :question.