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Paddling and camping in BC's West Kootenays last week.

Ha, yes the Thelon. We had planned to do it at the beginning of Covid but got caught in the fuel price surge. With two hardshell kayaks, we needed a Twin Otter to fly in for the drop off and then do the pick up in Qamani'tuaq, it was going to be like CDN$35K just for the flights (which in...

It was generally great weather, considering we were 3 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. The wind was persistent and usually cold due to the offshore sea ice but it sure kept the bugs away. We had been warned about (and were ready for) a lot of precipitation in the form of driving rain and...

ITTOG Yes, two of the folks who were on the trip that I reported on from this summer, were on the trip that is featured in the upcoming NG documentary which was done last summer. And, in the last print version of National Geographic magazine this month (can you believe that!), there is also an...

Kinda like the Franklin Expedition. Franklin was popular and well liked by his various crews but the real brains in the operation was his second in command Francis Crozier who, according to historians was both a better sailor in the decision making department and far less driven by his...

Lady Jane Franklin was very persistent and not a woman one would want to cross, at least as she was depicted by historical accounts.... The survival trip by Shackleton and his crew in basically a rowboat, was amazing, not to mention the superb navigation by the somewhat forgotten Frank Worsley...

Just the sunken ships were located about 60 miles apart, SW of King William Island. The discovery 6 years ago was a pretty big deal up here. Franklin successfully over wintered in 1845 near Devon Island, considerably further north than where we were. During that time, three of his crew members...

Yikes, what a mess. It looks to me something like windshield adhesive. The local automotive glass shop might have a suggestion. Failing that, I just go to to my garage shelf and start at "A" as in acetone and work down to "W" as in white gas (Naphthalene) and try all the assorted solvents...

Well, it has only been about a hundred and seventy five years since Captain Sir John Franklin and his compliment of some 128 members of the Royal Navy vanished. Someone should really finally find him!! High in the Canadian Arctic during the maniacal search for the elusive North West Passage...

Thanks. Still using the Kodiak. I am a waaay slower builder than you, so I can't go "camperless" for too long......

Here a couple of driver's side pictures of my recent temporary, "getting home" setup. As I mentioned, the next version will have some "shock" value.... And include swaged connections. Back pulley attachment Front pulley attachment (the wad of cable is just extra length that I didn't want...

Yah.... Good thing I had my toes crossed when I made that statement. What about some sort of support group on ExPo, something like CWA - "Camper widows anonymous"

I have only had the camper for two days. So far, I really like it, it is a bit daunting with all of the bareness and "whiteness" inside but that is what I wanted, a blank sheet of paper. I had considerable input with their engineers into the design which was fun. OH inside bed area is 53x80...

Taken two weeks ago on King William Island in Nunavut in Canada's far north. Not often you get to see an Arctic Fox in summer colors. Most of the ones I generally see are in their winter colors, featured on the sides of truck campers and trailers....

End of a long day on the road after picking a new CPT camper shell. "Yes dear, I think it will be my last camper build...."

Camping on the shore of the Arctic Ocean on North West King William Island in Nunavut Territory in Northern Canada. Taken a few weeks ago. 69.425125 N, 97.986250 W.

Good Luck with your trip! We did the Dehcho by kayak, Hay River to Tuk in 2018. Let us know if you need any specifics. We are off to Gjoa Haven on King William Island in Nunavut next week to find the tomb of Captain Sir John Franklin, it has only been lost for about 175 years....so it is...

Nope. Slocan Lake.....

This morning, we just finished a short week of paddling in BC's Kootenays region. Stellar weather except one afternoon which gave us an amazing downpour combined with zero delay lightening/thunder and then a bonus double rainbow.

I find with a very thin substrate like aluminum or fiberglass, a 1/16th over rotation during tightening a screw will strip the thread anyway. I hardly use screws anymore where the "bond to" material is so thin. I have now gone just about exclusively to stainless rivet nuts, epoxied in and...