In the Pack
ORIGINAL BUG SHIRT COMPANY Kids’ Bug Shirt
Growing up, I was taught that chemicals are the best defence against bugs. My dad would douse his body in DEET, my grandpa swore by the toxic incense of mosquito coils and my neighbour just got drunk. In the end, we all subjected our bodies to lasting harm and still got chewed. Tese days, kids have it easy with the Kids’ Bug Shirt from the Original Bug Shirt Company. Look Mom and Dad, no plastic-melting chemicals, poisonous gas or cirrhosis! It’s made of light polyester and no-see-um mesh—much like the body and screens of a tent. Te zippered hood is spacious enough to fit a baseball hat inside and toggles at the wrist and waist guard against stealthy intruders. Available in two sizes, to fit pre- and grade-schoolers. —Conor Mihell
$50 Cdn, $45 US •
www.bugshirt.com
SEATTLE SPORTS Super Sink II
FUGAWI Canada Maps DVD
No more last-minute cutting and laminating of expensive and awkward maps the night before the trip. Te digital revolution has brought car- tography to your home computer. Just load your province’s Fugawi Canada Maps DVD into your PC, zero in on the topographical maps you need for your route, zoom in and frame them in the preview screen, print them off and slide them in a map case. Tere’s a scribble tool for making notes on the maps and a ruler tool for mea- suring distances. Click on a point and the coordinates will appear so you can plug them into your GPS. One DVD holds all the 1:50,000 topos available for each province in Can- ada, for the price of just nine paper maps. Sadly, Mac users will be lost in the wilderness until Fu-
gawi makes a compatible DVD. — Mike Payne
Can $100, $75 US
for each province.
www.fugawi.com
Be honest. How many times have you been tempted to break the rules of low-impact camping and wash your dishes right in the lake? With Seattle Sports’ Super Sink II, you’ll never be tempted again. With a capacity of 22.5 litres, your dish- washing capabilities will rival those of a highway truck stop. A wire perimetre rim around the top keeps soapy water where it belongs, yet the whole 28-centime-
tre-tall, 25-centimetre-diameter sink collapses to the size of a Frisbee. —CM
$29 Cdn, $25 US •
www.seattlesportsco.com
BUCK Camp Axe
In the good ol’ days, no self-re- specting canoe trip- per paddled a stroke into the wilderness without an axe strapped to the outside of a canvas pack. Lately, these tools have been axed from gear lists in the interests of packing, and perhaps treading, lightly. Still, a few deft swings with an axe or hatchet remains the best way to make kindling for a fire after a week of rain, make a stake or (with the blunt end) pound a canoe back into shape. Te Buck Camp Axe is actu- ally more of a hatchet, with the steel head set in an impact-resistant, 32-centimetre plastic handle. At only 480 grams, traditionalists may scoff, but when it comes to axes, it’s not how big it is, it’s how you use it that counts. —CM
$48 Cdn
www.buckknives.com
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