Lessons Learned

Most Useful Trip Items:

Bean Can. This bean can was our mixing bowl, our water pitcher, our kool-aid mixer, and our emergency camp stove.

Single Coffee Filters. These not only brewed the morning coffee, but also served to strain the flotsam from our boiled water.

Wine. Heavy, but after a hard day, definately worth it's weight in gold.

The Algonquin Adventures Website: The triplog links, and planning sections were exceptionally handy in the planning phase of the trip.

Stuff We Should Have Brought:

Funnel - Our trusty can can only do so much. A funnel would have been exceptionally handy. We just forgot it.

Live worms - When we went to go fishing our worms were dead. That bit.

After-bite for poor tasty GF. I was covered in bruises, she was covered in bites. Mine hurt, hers itched. I'd rather be me.

Surf-socks for GF - Small portages lend to time to shoe changing, and sandals fill with twigs, etc and lend little foot-grip. My surf-socks were a godsent (other than the blisters) in the short-but-many portage areas.

Paper-towels, or disposeable rag. Just for cleaning purposes.

Stuff We Shouldn't Have Brought:

Margerine in it's original container. Leaked. Useful, but messy.

Dish-soap in the crappy container we used. Leaked and got all over itself. Messy.

Folding five gallon water container. We were never stationary long enough to use it..

Planning:

Allow for a couple extra days after the trip in case of marooning...

Pack more in advance, so you know where everything is the first night..