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Great tip, thanks!

I just purchased a CCS 10x16 tarp and Nathan from CCS told me he would rig it so that I put the ridgeline along the 10’ and have 8 foot of overhang on each side. What length of guy lines and ridgeline would you recommend?

Scary stuff I have been there not fun!

Hey Glen...are you ok? No news since Pandemic isolation? Let us know how you're doing pal?

I have to admit I love the silky saws I use the 2000 and the 500. one simple trick is to either carry a wood wedge or make one on trail cut into the log half way until you start to feel the bind then drive the wedge into the top of the cut this will stop it binding and as you cut tap the wedge in deeper I also struggle with the under cuts with the 500 but the wedge thing stopped the need for that. great to see people clearing tail much appreciated.

Thanks for the great tribute to Phil Cotton and all the people I worked with over 13 summers in the Wabakimi area. I'll be heading up to the Savant Lake Crown Land area later this summer (August 2024) with a few veterans of many Wabakimi Project trips. We'll do a check and see how the portages are doing. Phil and his crews went through this area in 2008/2009. We might spruce up a few portages and clean up a few campsites but we won't have a chainsaw with us to clear the windfalls.

(March 2nd, 2024) Hey Glenn, just checking in and hoping to see some indication that you're well and still enjoying the outdoors to some degree. I picked up a new Snowtrekker 8x10 and looking forward to putting it through the paces. Every winter I revisit your videos with anticipation and hope to see something new. Thanks again for all the forestry knowledge, experience (and botany) along with your helpful tips and tricks you've shared, they never get old...like us. :) Cheers

Nice wax job, those skis should fly. Better keep them away from heat and dust over the summer and spoil your work. Nice work on the stand. Like the girls say "If ya can't find em handsome better find em handy" When did you buy those Karhu Orions ? Just trying to date when they came out.

I’ve had CCS tarps for a long time. Nothing better in my opinion. Dan makes a fantastic tarp. I’m going to rig my tarp along my ridge line just like this. Keeps everything together for a rapid deployment of my tarp.

wrong... vbl..ß no bivy bag around the SB

There has to be someone, friend or family etc that knows something…..

I’m alone living completely off grid in Canada west of Sudbury and about and hour and a half east of the Soo. unfortunately I didn’t get my water system hooked up in time so I need access to water for washing dishes and bathing etc. I’m on a very deep lake and it doesn’t always freeze, but the last couple days it has frozen over and unfortunately I dont have an auger so I’ve been hammering out a 4x4 hole in everyday and I will definitely take advantage of this! Thank you god bless 💙🙏🏻

You are the OG! The man who launched the dream of a 1000 paddling content creators. When the scholars write the history of Paddling Content Creation. You will be the Edison of our genre! I hope you are well man, and I hope you are still getting outside.

Sure miss you and your video's! Just to share with you your willingness to share your paddling adventures, and canoe skills have changed me forever. Hope you are well, peace be with you. Happy paddling in the future, what ever the future holds for you.

👍👍👍

Miss watching your adventures. Hope your doing well 🤝🏻

Hope all is well...I still say you're definitely the trail blazer for all these solo camping vloggers... enjoyed all your trips and you are a great inspiration for all us true bushman...

Dude. Show how to start a fire.

Yessir. That will start. Quick burn, tho. You'll need hardwood, or craploads of spruce.

(January 4 2024) I always find myself back at your videos Hoop and always find something to take away. Hope you are doing well and back on the water or in the snow. No need to video anything except for yourself and know you have inspired a multitude of people to get out there. Take care and Safe Travels wherever they may take you. Nate

Hope your doing OK. We really miss you.

Hoop I’m 71 years old you are the person who gave me a reason for watching CZcams we miss you. Please tell us something that’s going on with you. We just want to know how you are doing.

W really miss you.

No we really miss you.

August 24, 2023 Hope all is well with you. 🤝🏻

I keep hoping to see Hoop's in action, paddling and tripping again. if not on the water, post a vid , sharing your knowledge and insights. No one more than you influenced and changed my perception, practice and attitude on tripping. i pray you are well and trust someday another vid is forth coming. I would love to see an update.

Hope you're surviving Covid19 my friend. Looking forward to an encore submission if weather & Health permit it? - Question: What is the Average Driving Time from Toronto to Woodland Caribou? I'm guessing 17 hours? (It's about 22 from Down-East to Toronto... more than 24 from Toronto to Winnipeg...?)

Do you know if this would work with the CCS Tarps with walls? Ie, I have a dining type tarp, with 4x mesh walls

What kind of tarp is that?

Hello, what kind of wood is it?

When I was homeless a lot of people don’t know that if you sleep in a very warm sleeping bag on dirt snow metal blacktop or concrete and it’s cold out that cold will eat right through your sleeping bag unless you have something under you. When I was homeless I’d use three layers of cardboard. I also had a one person tent that I through a comforter I found over top then hung up a tarp. This made my whole tent so insulated in just jeans and a sweatshirt and tshirt on I was warm at 35 degrees just sitting still there. If I would have added more then just one comforter I would have been a lot warmer but you can only add so much before the tent poles can’t take the weight and your tent starts to bend so what I’d do if you wanted to add more blankets it to put some strings on the blanket and then to some trees so it still touches your tent but lifts all the weight off of it. This setup got me through some extremely cold winters just on my body heat alone. But keep in mind when you get in your sleeping bag to go to sleep for awhile and wake up the whole tent will be freezing again though not as cold as having no insulation but when you sit back up it warms up fast. You don’t need to make an air hole either, enough air is able to come through the blankets but if you wanted to make a little air hole make it as low as possible because heat rises so you don’t want to loose all your heat.

Great series of videos, I really enjoyed watching this. 🛶

Ewwwwwww

Your stuff is the best. Way better than all these young youtubers who are now basically making reality TV series. I look forward to your return. Hope you are well.

Great to see you back HOOP! I completely agree with your comment that a narrow prospector makes for a superb choice of tripping boat. I also paddle a 16' prospector with a 34" beam (Evergreen 16') and much prefer it to the wider and slower 36" wide prospectors. However, my experience padding solo boats has led to arrive at a different conclusion than you regarding their relative speed as compared to a narrow prospector. In my experience, solo boats are not necessarily faster! My shorter (15') and narrower (28") Swift Raven is not faster than my 16' x 34" Evergreen - even though it would seem that it should be given the above specs. The reason for this is that the seat of the solo Raven is located further forward than the front seat is on my prospector (when paddled solo style from the bow). Why is this an issue you ask? When paddling my Swift Raven it is necessary to linger longer on the correction of each J stroke in order for the boat to track in a line. When paddling the prospector I do not need to linger as long on the correction part of the J stroke and can paddle at much faster speeds given that I am seated closer to the stern of the canoe. This has been my experience with the above canoes and other's mileage may vary. Thank you for your content! Cheers!

Really enjoy watching Hoop. Hope he is doing well. Really miss his videos. There was no drama just good camping and bushcraft skills.

You are absolutely right about gluten. But if you cannot have gluten we do not have to knead. I want to try this and just hope they are right that I can use gluten free floor. Wow this video is 10 y/o. I just got my firebox 2 days ago and want to be able to have some nice bread with my black bean soup (homemade). I heard we can bake it right on the flames, in a pan or wrapped around a branch. Let's see. Thank you.

Gross!! Chew with your mouth closed neanderthal!!

You don't get that divot with aluminum gunnels. Nice.

Nicely done👍🏻

BTW; Where are you man?? You do the best canoe tripping videos hands down. Hope all is well

I know it’s boxy and loud BUT I still love and always bring my Optimus 111B stove!! Sometimes it’s my 111t silent burner. 😎👌👍🏼

Made in my home state of Utah. 👍

I've been an active follower of your channel for a long time, and being now converted to mostly solo tripping (not by choice) I'm intrigued by your videos and your solo adventures. I've been canoe tripping since my first canoe trip into Algonquin park in 1968, and have continued to canoe trip each year as often as I can. I am however, not in the same class as you with respect to the number of trips you've done, and the number of places you've been. As I mentioned i reverted in the last few years to travelling solo most of the time after tripping friends have slowly been unable to continue for various reasons. In my mid 70's my trips now have become less about travelling fast and greater distances and more about relaxing, enjoying the outdoors and each day travelling shorter distances. It's been 2 years since my last solo trip into the boreal - Wabakimi PP - with the last couple of years being primarily solo trips into LSPP and Algonquin. As long as I can still get my canoe over my head I will continue. I would love at some point to have the opportunity to chat with you about some of your solo trips and how you manage them. Not getting any younger. Peter

has anybody heard anything about Hoop?

I'm enjoying this series. New subscriber here. When you mentioned that the oatmeal was too much, I wondered if you could have formed it into a cookie and tried to bake it for a tasty treat later in the day.

(January 1st, 2023) Every year I return here to this video to see if anyone has heard or has an update from HOOP. I really wish he or someone else would post a simple note about his existence. It doesn't have to be a long or drawn out explanation for his absence, or too personal for that matter. Just a simple note to indicate he's ok and breathing. I really miss him and his videos, especially his boreal forest knowledge..it was fascinating. Glen, if you read this, Happy New Year brother. I hope you're somewhere safe.

Need new content!! Best outdoors channel on CZcams…….it’s been years, hope all is well with WINTERTREKER

Wow i know its rare to find fatwood in spruce, i have a video where i found fatwood in cypress, check it out, i woild love to see that spruce flame up.

What's up 😁