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charity rereg posted:We generally travel light and I feel people treat canoe trips like car camping & make themselves needlessly miserable. But what if I want to bring a ton of beer and a good chair on my camping trip and there's no portage? I'm the opposite of miserable!
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charity rereg posted:I don't actually know what "no portage" means but it sounds fun Oh I think it's a Canadian term. It's basically when you have to carry your canoe over land for a bit to get from one lake/river to another. If your camping trip involves a portage then you have to pack a lot lighter.
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Jul 24, 2020 16:51
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But yes then go nuts and sink the boats with booze IMO
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charity rereg posted:I meant the opposite, I've never in my life not had massive portages, I mostly canoe in the adirondacks and northeast. We did an uphill 7.5 mile historic portage called the "grand portage" in Quebec. I portaged across an international land border, through a few miles of muck in the heat of mosquito & fly season. We built our own cart out of lumber and pieces of an old golf club carrying cart and wheels from a knee cart. It disassembled and laid flat in the boat, it owned. Ohhh my bad
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Jul 24, 2020 17:55
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I've been doing the "pry" stroke because I find the proper J stroke hurts my wrist. I'm probably just doing it wrong. Anyway I did a bunch of canoe/kayak camping trips this year because the pandemic basically cuts off most other forms of vacation. Three canoe trips to Algonquin park (Joe lake, Parkside bay, Pen Lake/Galeairy Lake), and two kayak trips in Thousand Islands. Last weekend (Pen/Galeairy) involved a 1680m portage and the guy renting the canoes cheaped out and got the heavier ones  . That was not fun, but the rest of the weekend was great, saw a bald eagle on Pen lake.
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Sep 21, 2021 20:40
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