Canoe Trails Training Manual

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Cruising (cont.) If you arrive at a carry a little before lunch, get your equipment across before you eat, then relax and enjoy your food. Portaging on a full stomach isn't too smart an idea, even if lunch is delayed . Lunch Land where you can eat in the shade and in I the breeze, if it's hot and sunny, or in the sun and I sheltered from the wind, if it's cold and blustery. Rig a shelter if it's raining hard enough to bother you. If it will make you more comfortable, build a fire, but don't cook for lunch, except under unusual circumstances . Rest during lunch kind for a half hour afterward. This is a grand time to shoot the breeze, study the map, and gripe about that root your left shoulder blade the night before. Making Camp The guide canoe should start looking for a good campsite by 4:30 p.m., unless you have to reach some particular spot or there is no suitable place to make camp. The ideal site will provide: 1.Open ground with adequate drainage in case of heavy rain, level enough for good beds and big enough to put up tents; consider exposure to breeze or shelter from wind, depending on weather . 2. Plenty of standing dead wood for fires; but no large dead trees which might fall on the camp.
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