Sigurd F. Olson

While reading Ted Moores’ excellent book Canoecraft recently, a quote by Sig Olson practically jumped off the page and slapped me in the face. I was struck by it so much that I searched out the surrounding text & posted the whole thing on Facebook that night. It was true in 1956 when he published it …

Good quote

I have this addon for Chrome which changes my new tabs to include a full screen image (randomized every day) as well as you can tell it your locale so it gives weather, it can keep a todo list (I never use, too many other options for that) and down at the bottom it gives …

Pinewood Derby 2018

The race was today. Devin kicked butt as I thought he might. His car had the best time by far for the combined Tiger/Lion dens, and probably the 3rd best time of the whole day. He’s proud of his shiny new big first place trophy!

BWCA 2016 Part 8

Saturday, August 13, 2016 The alarm goes off at 6 and I’m out of the tent maybe 15 minutes later after getting dressed and packing up some. We were set up on what turned out to be my least favorite tent pad of the trip. It was slightly sloped and the tent barely fit. Plus …