That kind of sky, and the one two days ago, just make for the photos that break my heart on a snowy, cold morning.  I want to be there, not here!  Sigh.   

Thanks for a moment of canoe-country loveliness, kypaddler.   up

Mighty tasty looking Mmmmmm up

sent you a bunch on Nov 1.

I do like it. It is one of the luxuries I have added to my gear. As I get older it seems those luxuries become more like necessities, like my 3" thick sleeping pad. With this chair and my steadily decreasing agility I need to roll out of it rather than stand up from a seated position, but it is still worth it.

I won it along with some other gear from instructables.com for my cedar strip canoe project submission. This is it I believe:

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We had never taken a chair, but a few years ago we started taking lightweight stools, which I really appreciated.  As my knees began to deteriorate I could no longer squat at the fire and the stool was a godsend.  But I was VERY resistant to taking a chair.  It just seemed wrong, somehow.

Then in 2011 Spartan1 won his fishing trip with Ramsey Dowgiallo (Wilderness Journey) and he came back after five days saying, "Ramsey always takes chairs on his trips.  It's pretty nice.  We should do that."  We went to Pamida in Ely and bought a lightweight bag-type lawn chair before our trip that very summer.

So now we take one stool and one chair.  We alternate who gets the chair, and I have to admit I do like it.  A lot. 

When I was in my 20's and 30's, I loved sitting on rocks and logs, and I scoffed at anyone who thought something like a chair was a desirable canoe trip addition.  Now I consider it a necessity.  Sigh.