Two Cent Review #3
Review of The Canoe Guide's Handbook: How to Plan and Guide a trip for Two to Twelve People
Gil Gilpatrick, 1983
Review by Mark W. Barrows
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The Canoe Guide's Handbook: How to Plan and Guide a trip for Two to Twelve People
Gil Gilpatrick, 1983
Delorme Publishing Company
Yarmouth, Maine
This book is one of my favorite how-to books about canoe tripping.
It's utility is not limited to guides and it's full of good basic
advice for anyone interested in canoe camping. It's well organized;
starting out with a chapter of checklists, each checklist followed
by brief explanation of the items listed. Chapter seven is "Custom
Gear" in which Gilpatrick describes in detail how to make your own
food packs, kitchen box and pack frames. Using these instructions
I've helped construct food packs and a kitchen box that I've
subsequently used on two, two week trips in Labrador. They are
every bit as rugged and useful as Gilpatrick claims.
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