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| Skills » Driving with a canoe on long trips » 3/29/2016 12:56 pm |
Great, thank you! Not being from the area it's hard to tell how much of a target things like canoes are. Last trip we took we ended up staying at a Courtyard Marriott in Ottawa (underground parking and all) and I had this fun vision of portaging a canoe through a hotel lobby 
| Skills » Driving with a canoe on long trips » 3/25/2016 10:50 am |
After a few trips now we're finally looking into getting a canoe of our own... super excited about it! However, I wanted suggestions/thoughts on best practices for long drives (I live outside Boston) with a canoe. All advice welcome, but a couple of specific questions:
1) What do you do with your canoe if you are staying somewhere (like a motel) overnight? It generally takes us just over a day to get to the park, so we're on the road around dawn and arriving typically at a motel at dusk. Typically we'll haul the gear into the hotel room overnight for any last minute rearranging/packing in the morning... but what do you guys do with a canoe?
2) Any suggestions for protecting the canoe / keeping a canoe safe on a long haul drive? For instance, is a roof rack worth the investment? We typically have pretty "small" cars -- does that matter?
Any other tips?
Thanks!
Chris
| Skills » Attach packs to canoe, or not? » 8/19/2015 5:30 pm |
Thanks all for the advice! Sounds like, as long as you pay attention to the possible risks, there is no real concensus on a definite answer to this question. I guess at least I haven't been doing wrong :-)
| Skills » Attach packs to canoe, or not? » 8/17/2015 3:16 pm |
So this is kind of embarrasing, but I have a very basic question: when you're out in the middle of the lake, is your pack supposed to be attached to the canoe, or not?
| Equipment » MSR guardian water purifier » 8/17/2015 3:11 pm |
Was talking to some Appalachian Trail thru-hikers over the weekend and basically ALL of thems swear by the Sawyer water filtration systems. I had really bad luck with my last MSR pump filter (throughput was terrible, which certainly could have been user error, but I never figured it out) so I'm likely to try something else the next time.
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