Camping with your canoe sounds so romantic. Camping with your canoe brings up images of Indians paddling their canoes across mist shrouded lakes. Camping with your canoe can take you to some very inaccessible places, but camping with your canoe can be very hard work. Camping with your canoe can be a leisurely paddle across a pond or a three week trek through the most remote back country. What camping with your canoe is to you depends on what you want from camping with your canoe. Do you want exercise? do you want beautiful scenery? Do you want to go deep into the wilderness? Camping with your canoe can be all this and more.

If you want your camping with your canoe to take you into the remote back country, be prepared for a lot of work. Camping with your canoe doesn't just happen. Camping with your canoe takes planning and preparation. If you want to camp with your canoe successfully, you need to have the correct equipment and proper training. Back country camping with your canoe can be quite dangerous so it must be treated as a serious matter. You can't just go into the woods and go camping with your canoe without knowing what the conditions are that you will encounter.

You need to prepare yourself and your equipment for the arduous task ahead. You can begin by studying maps of the area you will be going into to go camping with your canoe. Before you go camping with your canoe, you need to really study good topographic maps of the rivers you will be navigating. You need to measure the total miles you will be covering and then break it up into manageable days of camping with your canoe. Do not forget to allow extra time for any portages that you may have to do around areas that are not passable in the river, like waterfalls or unnavigable rapids.

When you go camping with your canoe, where you have to get off the river and carry your canoe, and all of your food and gear around an obstacle are a fact of life. I once spent fourteen hours on my birthday portages a group of teenagers and all our gear and food around a waterfall in Canada. It was hot. It was very buggy. And it was up hill and down hill. And it was a very long, hard day. But when you go camping with your canoe, that is just the way it goes sometimes. Camping with your canoe isn't all just gliding down the river. There will be many places where that just won't work out.