There’s not much you can fit into a canoe. So deciding what to pack for the Great Canadian Canoe Trip can pose a difficult challenge, especially for inexperienced paddlers. Cottage Life magazine has ...

Dan Cooke applies his engineer’s mind to perfecting common camping gear. Take the lowly camp tarp, for instance. From their basement shop in Lino Lakes, Cooke and his wife, Karen, sew camping tarps ...

Heading out for a Boundary Waters trip and realize you are short a canoe pack? No problem, just head down to Duluth’s Frost River store and rent one. The popular soft-sided-backpack maker that has ...

I needed a little escape, and so I grabbed a canoe, my camping gear, and picked a dead-end lake with a single campsite on it.