Video: A canoe trip on the Mississippi River
I’m going to share parts of a recent Mississippi River canoe experience with you – sit back, relax and enjoy the river’s peace and tranquility.
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Best canoe? 40+ years and this Coleman is still going strong
Good gear is an investment. I bought my 15-foot Coleman Ram-X canoe before setting out on my 1980 Source-to-Sea voyage on the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. The canoe is still being used.
read moreBark River UP Gunny or Bravo – Which is the best knife for you?
It’s a wonderful quandary: Bark River UP Gunny or UP Bravo? Which one do you want to buy? The UP Bravo is the knife I would have designed for me. But the BR Gunny is one of my favorite knife series. Which one will be the best choice for you?
read moreKnife review | Bark River UP Bravo first look
All cutlery aficionados have that grail knife somewhere in the back of their minds.
But this Bark River UP Bravo meets all my requirements for a hunting/bushcraft knife, and my search for the grail may be over. Maybe.
Downriver: Lake Winnibigoshish Chapter 5
The widest spot on the Mississippi is Lake Winnibigoshish.
read moreBig River Wild Adventures: Learn wilderness skills at this Mississippi River outdoors school
Want a totally unique eco-vacation, but one that is affordable and nearby?
Want to learn basic wilderness survival skills while canoeing on America’s largest river, through some 300 miles of Wilderness? Big River Wild Adventures combines wilderness, canoe cruising and learning.
read moreDiving for clams on Mississippi River
The Natives viewed clams as a food source. Today, some people still harvest clams, but for different uses. Along the Mississippi, clams were the basis for a thriving pearl button industry.
read moreReview: Bark River Crash Ax proves its worth
The Bark River Crash Ax performs way above its weight class. Here is what I found about ax’s performance on a Mississippi River canoe trip.
read moreIs this the best fillet knife? We review the Bark River Kalahari Sportsman
A quality fillet knife is one of the most useful outdoor tools imaginable. We wring out Bark River’s latest offering.
read moreDownriver Chapter 11: Vision Quest?
Sometimes an experience will bring up memories that have lain dormant for years. Maybe it was of something that didn’t seem particularly important at the time it was happening. Possibly the new experience is like a key word on a computer that opens up an apparently unrelated, or unsuspected file.
Or maybe that first memory wasn’t complete, without something to trigger it.