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egg Carton Fire starters
No matter your pyrotechnical skill, it’s handy to have a few fire starters on hand for emergencies or rain-soaked days. Fill an egg carton with the wood shavings
from your workshop and pour melted wax (melt it carefully, don’t light it on fire!) into the egg tray as though you are making ice cubes. When the concoction cools just break off a few, bag them and you have a waterproof and reliable way to
start a quick fire. KARL FOSTER WINNIPEG, MANITOBA
ranger Bands
The inner tube from a bicycle or car tire (harder to find these days) is a ready source of extremely durable elastic bands. Slice cross pieces from the tubes for small bands or cut lengthwise sec- tions and tie with a reef knot for bands as big and strong as you need them. They are handy for keeping your tarp or rain gear tightly rolled, fixing a water bottle to your gunwale, lashing paddles to thwarts for comfortable portaging and other
uses only limited by your imagination. ANNE-SOPHIE MUTER LAVAL, QUEBEC
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and started a five-month solo trip from Ontario’s Algonquin Park to Manitoba’s Lake Winnipeg. He was stopped by a painful reminder of how
tripping solo raises the stakes. Read his expert ad- vice on being prepared to be alone on page 51. Schwartz covers how to go alone, but not
why. “Freedom. I eat when I’m hungry, sleep when I’m tired, paddle at my own pace. The trip is finished when I get back to my vehicle. This attitude doesn’t work well with groups.” With a reported 60,000 hits a month,
Schwartz is busy managing the traffic on his site. He’ll have less time for the computer now,
How solo can you go?Harlan Schwartz H
arlan Schwartz, creator of the solotripping. com website, left his flock alone last summer
Lone wolf. PHOTO: HARLAN SCHWARTZ
having moved from Toronto to Red Lake, On- tario, shortly after filing his story. The only thing between Red Lake and the
Manitoba border is Woodland Caribou Park, the main reason for Schwartz’s call to U-haul. “It’s all about quality of life,” explains Schwartz.
“I’ll be paddling 10 minutes after leaving work.” » IAN MERRINGER
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When you’d rather be paddling
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