I love today's POD, Solus!  What a neat perspective!  Thanks!

Rock before rock was coool...

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Thanks for the kind comments!

Jim-
That is the full kit. Though for my last two solos I have added a CCS Rucksack and reduced the load in the big pack and accepted the double portage- My knees started complaining about single portaging.

I'm trying to figure out if I can reduce the load enough to single again. If I had the cash I could drop about 12# by jumping to a Savage River Blackwater; might do the trick.

ST-
Of course you're dead on. My commitment to single portaging was not absolute; if I felt stressed, fatigued, clumsy  or encountered difficult conditions I dropped the boat and came back for it. I realized I was trudging over the portages, that relatively minor obstacles required a gathering of resources. So I opted for three relatively easy walks to replace one difficult one. Not to mention the degree which dropping 20# from the big pack makes it easy to hoist in and out of the boat.

What I do miss is reaching the end of the portage and walking out into the water, setting the boat afloat, removing the pack and dropping it in the canoe, unhooking the yoke, paddles, and pfd, climbing aboard and simply paddling off. That, my friend, is sweet.