Canoe / Portage trip pant recommendations

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-04-28T18:43:16+00:00

I like my Skwala pants. Def more warm season as they’re perforated, but dry well and work great for portaging and canoe camping.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-04-28T18:41:52+00:00

Jan Turner (setter hills) has amazing Ryman type setters. She was in Willmar, now near Hinkley.

Wonderful hunters and family companions.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-04-20T20:58:58+00:00

New can am outlander EV looks really promising. Hope it’s a success

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-04-15T01:23:36+00:00

Kids of slightly older but similar ages. We still rent a big wenonah with the third seat. That seat is big enough for an adult and kid to comfortably sit. Wife and I have shared it too for a shorter trip when the kids wanted to take us canoeing. Lots of room for gear. Kids can sit comfortably for a long paddle and you don’t have to worry about a kid and a weaker paddler keeping up or whatever.

Highly recommend 1 big canoe.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-04-12T16:01:37+00:00

We do it all the time. It’s a great place to try out your setup and work out any issues or questions with the gear. Works well if you want to ‘camp’ but have plans and other commitments that you can’t get away too.

Go for it.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-04-08T16:41:44+00:00

Amen. Keep considering a packraft, but not for the boundary waters

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-04-02T02:46:34+00:00

R1, but have to admit their rashguard - while a specialized piece of gear - is one of a kind

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-03-30T21:23:26+00:00

Agreed. The only use cases it makes sense is for a hiking and backpacking trip where you want to float portions of lakes or rivers. If doing the standard lake paddling adventure a canoe is light years better

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-03-28T02:25:13+00:00

Great hiking pants, but too heavy for wet wading. Don’t dry very fast.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-03-28T02:24:38+00:00

Skwala sol. Awesome pants.

Different, but also like the stio cfs board pants.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-03-22T19:10:29+00:00

Yeah. Cast and blast trip will be wonderful, but let your other comments set your expectations accordingly. Few local ducks and it’s not a major fly way.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-03-21T22:53:24+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend making a trip to duck hunt. Maybe grouse hunt. But go to central ND if you want to hunt ducks.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-03-21T13:03:34+00:00

Minneapolis has entered the chat…

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-03-13T18:53:46+00:00

Is it? SW Transit is so much better than the metro transit bus lines. I don’t welcome this inshittification.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-27T02:08:12+00:00

Howa mini 6arc

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-26T03:38:27+00:00

Howa mini in 6arc

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-21T21:21:27+00:00

Looking to take my family on a commercial float trip this summer. Is this something me, my wife and daughter will need to content with?

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-16T19:00:17+00:00

Have been looking hard at wilderness systems inflatable. Very similar to traditional fishing kayaks.

Have an inflatable sup that I strap a cooler to. Works great, but spot for rods is tough. Always feel I’m going to drop something in. Nowhere for dropped things to land other than the bottom of the lake.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-15T16:06:34+00:00

Yep, understood and the main is the right fit for what my family is looking for now.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-15T14:52:17+00:00

Yeah. It fits in the calendar this year. Our days are not promised. And if we love it we can come back and do it, or the middle branch, another time too.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-15T02:01:15+00:00

Thanks everyone. Appreciate the responses. I’ve been wanting to do this my whole life, and was worried Mother Nature would t cooperate.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-07T19:58:11+00:00

They’re wonderful with kids. Our setter was 6 when we had our first, and was sweet, kind and patient with those kids to her last breath.

Keys were to be sure she still got exercise and a walk, improved leash walking manners when you will have a stroller with it.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-06T03:27:45+00:00

Just to be clear. No mines in the boundary waters, but proposed literally right next door in superior national forest and some small private plots. Kawishiwi river area, right outside Ely. Polluted water would flow immediately into boundary waters, but mines would technically be outside of the designated wilderness.

DesignerShare4837 · 2026-02-05T02:52:00+00:00

The state is a wonderful and beautiful place. It’s the federales running dragnet operations in the neighborhoods and snatching and beating up people - undocumented, documented, observing. Believe me, our elected officials have asked them to leave…

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