Kopka River, Ontario. Cliff prepares steam fried pizza - 10 min. prep/2 min. cook Quick! Name the most important thing on a camping trip. If you said “food,” you’re partly correct. If you said GOOD food, you are dead right! I’ve been on many canoe trips where the rapids were intimidating, the portages bad, and the weather was awful. But my crews never complained. Why? Because we were always warm and dry, and we had really good food. I learned early that if everything

by Cliff Jacobson Cliff: Boundary Waters Canoe Area, 1980. 17' Grumman aluminum canoe. A recent article in an on-line magazine listed seven reasons why now is a better time to be paddling than the 1980’s. I'm not sure. Except for bent-shaft, carbon-fiber paddles and my three carbon-Kevlar solo canoes—which I dearly love—I think that we had it better then, than now. Here are 12 reasons why BWCA: 1979. Cliff in stern of white canoe (18.5 foot Sawyer Charger--early Kevlar whi