Robin

Thanks, I find I really enjoy the solo thing, come and go as I please, very peaceful. Plus, my dark to dark hunting days are over I'm all for comfort and just being out there in the big woods of NYS. I went out to western Ontario in August for a group canoe trip with some friends for 6 days, but spent 4 more days solo which I really enjoyed. Here's a short video of the solo trip, sort of confirms my "going solo" attitude, .

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Here's a few more from NW Ontario we put in about an hour 1/2 NW of Nakina, Ontario via a logging road and 1 mile portage ran down some rivers and lakes 6 of us for 6 days then I stayed 4 more solo, here's the wolf at a distance saw another real close on a river the next day My canoe on the left, and a stripper built on the right. Mines a Chestnut Chum, 15'x 30", makes a great little solo canoe My camp for 4 days solo on Marshall Lake, Ontario My canoe in front of solo campsite Cooking Klick (Canadian spam) with home fries in a cold handle stove with a pot of bush coffee too Long beach, only 2 cabins on this 8 mile lake, one is an outfitter's and the other is owned by a first nation couple, My co-trippers on a river, Two canoes, two fish on. It was easy to catch walleyes at the bottom of most portages, no canoes had been through here this year from what we could tell. We carried a chain saw to open some of the portages of blow downs, setting up camp for the night,

I'm set to head back up there again this year last 8-10 days of October. I just got back from a canoe trip in North Western Ontario, 10 days-70 miles, great walleye and pike fishing, saw wolves, bear moose, First Nation people, great trip. I'm still going back to Lows Lake, great country in there, hope to take advantage of small game season while I spend some pre deer hunt time in the big woods. I'm hoping for good weather, it's a long paddle out if it turns cold and wet, but that's the chance you take.

Bear are protected still in Connecticut, but here's a video of a bear in my woodlot, he's in good shape for just coming out of his den.(he was going after a chicken carcass I hung from a branch)

But the food was good on the wood stove

I tried it with my downsized wall tent, maybe if I was younger I'd go again, pulling the toboggan in was hard and then it was a long night, I slept without the stove on, but my sleeping was good, just a long night alone.

Here's a video of me kicking back in my little canoe shop one cold night, checking out my latest wood canvas canoe restoration project and cookin' some venison on the wood stove. Life is good for this old retired guy, hope you enjoy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cULEOWOfmoA Thanks, Robin

Thanks Paula, I understand your concern. I had Lows to myself the 5 days I was there, and the Assistant Ranger (Dawn) checked on me one day. She lives on the lake at the BS camp with her husband, so help is nearby if needed. I never saw another person after the parking lot besides the ranger.

No, it would have required 2 trips, probably leap frogging, but... I brought a pulley system and in the event I did get a deer, I would have boned it out at camp. I had the bags and that would have probably pretty much put the canoe at it's limit. I wouldn't be mounting any more heads, so that would cut down some on the load too.

I'm not sure what the loaded weight was, pretty heavy though. I built a heavy duty portage cart and stashed it in the woods at the carry at the upper dam, but I was able to make the trip across the carry in one trip with everything in the canoe and one pack on my back. It's about a 4 1/2 hour drive from home, then about 4-5 hours paddle into the site I used (about 12 miles), I made it there just before dark, long day, I slept well the first night. I agree, wall tents are as good as it gets, Thank You Heading in, loaded canoe, Comfortable camp, Beautiful NY

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Thanks for the kind remarks.When I bought that wall tent, it was too big for anything but car camping. I'm not a sewer, but I learned via youtube. I bought a $25 Brother sewing machine on CL, and went at it. Making those first cuts on the tent where scary, but it all turned out ok and I'm glad I did it. Sitting in camp on cold rainy days with the wood stove keeping the coffee warm is hard to beat. Maybe too comfortable, and maybe I should be beatin' the woods, but it's fun and I really enjoy the whole experience. sittin' out the storm, Taking in the beauty of the Adk's,

Just wanted to say HI, new guy here. I grew up on a farm on Long Island, so I am a New Yorker buy birth, but moved to Connecticut for work 30 plus years ago. Like most here, I enjoy the great outdoors, canoe tripping and restoring old wood canvas canoes are my first love, but I have been able to combine both canoes and hunting for many years, mostly duck and geese here in CT. I have also began to use to the canoe for deer hunting in NY's ADK's, I posted some pics and vid in the "big woods" thread of a couple of trips I have made in the last 3 years. I'm looking forward to reading and sharing ideas and times out in the woods, very nice site and nice group of people.

In 2012, and again in 2014 I spent opening week of the northern zone deer season camped at Lows Lake, NY with my wall tent and a wood stove. I hunted the Tomar Mt area, I saw more moose sign than deer sign, but just having an opportunity to spend some time in those big woods was very rewarding. I don't hunt hard, at 66 years old my days of sitting in the woods from dark to dark are over, but I enjoy time around the camp as much as time in the woods, so not seeing deer was no big dissapointment. I live in Connecticut and always manage to have venison in the freezer by years end, so the pressure is off at Lows, just relax and enjoy. I posted a couple of videos on youtube, Here are some pics of 2012 and 2014 My wall. tent, I cut an 8x10 by 6'6" high tent down to about 7x6 deep by 54" high, with an interior frame and a 12x12 by 8" high wood stove I paddle a 16' Chestnut Pal wood canvas canoe, I eat prety good in camp, this picture is from 2012 when the wood stove was 12x12x12, I have since cut it down to only 8" high Cruising the shoreline early am, Enjoying some time in the big woods, Up on Tomar Mt,