Several food items from Packit Gourmet. Especially liked the nut-butter packets (peanut and almond), jelly packets, condiment packets, and the cheesecake. Also some of the freeze-dried veggies: the corn, the tomato pieces, onion dices, mushrooms, and the tomato powder which makes a fine tomato paste with a little water.

A diffuser so that I can use the Jello-mold oven on the stove as well as on the fire. Useful this time because we didn’t have a fire at all.

My new camera, Canon 7D digital SLR, with two new L-series lenses. Once I actually learn how to operate it I think I may get some really good photos. The learning curve is pretty steep. And it is heavy. For the inclement weather shots and quick shots in the canoe I still use a little waterproof Pentax Omnio W30.

Crazy Creek chair. I didn’t find it that helpful in the canoe, as I couldn’t figure out how to keep the back up when entering the canoe. Anyway, I have the big SeaLine bag behind me when we are loaded, so I can usually just lean back against that for a back rest. I did sit on it, though, (folded down) and it was more comfortable than the cane canoe seat with my sciatic nerve pain. A bit of extra padding really helped. And it was a godsend on my camp stool in camp, to give me back support, since we take stools with no backs.