![]() And leave what you didn’t have the energy or motivation to carry around the block. Then take it all out and carry it around the block, simulating a portage. But do you want to carry it a mile or more, over a steep, wet, slippery, portage? Think twice, pack judiciously, perhaps slightly more extravagantly than backpacking. Certainly you can carry a 30 pound cooler in your canoe, no problem. Or that passage has ceased altogether, if you’re going from lake to lake. After all, the reason you’re getting out of your nice dry comfortable vessel is the terrain has presented an obstacle to the gentle passage of your river or stream. And portages are not known for their ease of docking and unloading. If you have a portage or two, that effort multiplies. However, if you are moving from site to site, remember you have to unload and reload everything you decide to take, at least twice a day. If you’re lake camping and plan to stay in the same spot, this is less of an issue. Most canoes 16′ or longer will carry a lot of gear, if you want to take the time to move it from canoe to camp and back. Be careful what you decide to carry in your canoe. Until the Allagash, our canoe adventures were limited to flat water and involved an hour or so paddling to get to our site, where we stayed the entire time we camped. We’ve done a bit of camping on the water. ![]() The temptation in canoe camping is to take everything that your boat will carry. Our Canoe Camping Checklist – What to take (and what NOT to take)Ĭanoe Camping – Moving from place to place, in a canoe or kayak, with your camping gear on board, beaching your craft and setting up camp. ![]() We revise our canoe camping checklist once again. Way, way too much stuff for canoe camping but we realized it too late. And there’s a few more things left to put in. This is what your canoe looks like when you take too much stuff.
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