I would like to try a bare bones trip where I single like this.  I have a goal to buy a swift solo canoe with a carbon yoke.  I'm pretty sure I can pare down my load enough for me to single portage.  Right now my Blackhawk solo boat is around 50Lbs. with a heavy yoke.  Can't wait to go light.

Today's pic is the conditions I stand-up and use my double paddle like a gondolier pole rather than beat the reeds trying to paddle.

  I always get a little nervous wondering if eventually I'll run out of the floatable water and have to drag my ride? 

Another great pic Solus 

The first thing that popped into my mind was IF Edgar Allen Poe tripped. 

Hey Solus I didn't get a chance to tell you what a great shot that is of the raven on the burnt tree.  Excellent capture.

Thanks Kerry. I wish it was a raven (a much better capture) but it's a red-winged blackbird; photo taken from my canoe, the burned white pine snag was anchored in the beaver pond between Argo and Crooked- burned then drowned.

Jimbo- today's pic is the cliff that hold's the Ted Lake pintos. Nearly identical to the Darky setting. I think it is both cool and interesting that so many pictograph sites are also home to raven nests  Probably due to similar topography requirements but I prefer more otherworldly explanations.