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View Poll Results: What do you like best?

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  • Canoe

    18 18.18%
  • Walking

    59 59.60%
  • Kayak

    8 8.08%
  • Car

    1 1.01%
  • Boat

    1 1.01%
  • Other (please write)

    12 12.12%
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Thread: What do you like best?

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    Default What do you like best?

    Hi...

    Which kind of transport' do you like best, when traveling in the wilderness?? :wink:
    Personally i like canoe best! :biggthump :-)

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    I have to agree with you there ... Canoe or kayak ..... either or will suit me fine :-)

    Ed

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    kayak, walking or cycling. It has to be non motorised to feel a part of the environment. walking is the best as it requires the least amount of preparation and kit.

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    That's a difficult one for me to answer. I'd love to get an expedition type of canoe and travel riverways and lakes, but around here, walking is the only way to go.
    All life is subject to the laws of Nature, or to be more precise, the laws of our CREATOR.

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Shanks' pony or bike.
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  6. Default Re: What do you like best?

    hmm, canoe/kayak when possible, other than that walking.

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Horses. well trained ones. Save your legs,environmentally friendly and wildlife acts like your not there!
    But I do love walking
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    the Range Rover :?:

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Walking is my general mode of transport, but would like to do the canoe/kayak trip type (not deliverance style )

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    hey theres no camel !!!!


    no really I walk most of the time except where it is not practical
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    I go for walking, after I've used my Land Rover to transport my kayak to the river to get me to an out of the way island!

    Ahh, If only....

    Dave
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    1st Feet, 2nd My ol Landy ,3rd this is just somethig id like a coricle.....

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    If I wanted to travel a fair distance it would be the canoe but if just enjoying the slow life in the woods it would be walking for me :-)
    Nigel
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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    In an ideal world, god I'd love to go everywhere on horseback...but I can't, because I haven't got one so that's out. Secondly, I've always wanted to go canoing/kayaking, but I never have, so that's out...and I can't drive...

    WALKING.

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Cycling of course :biggthump

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Walking for me. :wink: I can't say I have tried the others as a mode of transport in a wilderness area but I have tried them and am partial to a bit of canoeing or kayaking.

    I'd quite like to take up expedition(?) kayaking sometime. :biggthump

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Only had time and cash to try it once but I great day out running down hills and taking off with a "parafoil" style parachute.

    Exhilarating, great view, saves endless aggro on the knees during descents but of course you have an extra 20 odd pounds to hump up the hill in the first place.

    I was lucky enough to get a kilometer long flight on this first day - yow!

    Otherwise I like boats - yachts all the way down to kayaks.

    I don't click with horses - far too little response between the steering & the wheels - and don't even think about brakes ):
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    I'm a diehard walker, but in an ideal world a Greenland kayak would be my legs - think of it, out all day fishing and hunting seals, then go back to your camp on a tiny Norwegian island. Heaven :biggthump
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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Walking for me.

    Though i really do like taking my old Landy IF its not going to do any damage to the environment - mind you I've got in to the habit of taking my company car (nice shiney new Astra) place where non 4x4 wouldn't ever get the chance to go.

    I'd like a canoe/kayak or decent inflatable as the idea of a river trip really appeals.
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    Its my own 2 feet for me, but wouldn't mind a trip in an indian syle canoe. But I would love to restore a landy and take it offroad touring.
    What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    i am not really a water person i like looking at it but not really have any desire to float on it. i did have a horse but they do tend to make to much noise when walking and you kind of lose the intimacy with the ground that you have when walking. althrough the horse will hear animals that you would not hear so the is an up side.

    always walking for me, it's also cheaper!

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    walking is ok but at times, just a little more hard work than i'd like... I do prefer to ride my horse though as he enjoys being out and about as much as I do when given the chance.
    I knew it was raining cats and dogs because I stepped in a poodle.

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    walking smell breath view the land and get to know every branch twig and tussock well for me any way
    whatever you do TAKE PLEASURE IN LIFE..

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelBoy
    If I wanted to travel a fair distance it would be the canoe but if just enjoying the slow life in the woods it would be walking for me :-)
    Who says you have to paddle? Nothing more relaxing than floating down a river in a canoe. And, do you know how much liquid refreshment a canoe holds?

    :smile: DOC-CANADA :smile:

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    This poll is hardly fair. In winter I'd want snowshoes or a dogsled and in river or lake country a canoe. In Lost Angeles a restored Panzer Tiger might, might finally get the attention of SUV occupants with a cellphone in one hand, S tarbucks latte between their legs and the free hand strategically readied to render a one finger salute to those with the temerity to honk or fail to read their vehicle body language substituting for signals. Otherwise it's walking upright like our earliest ancestors or riding/ driving horses. My Hackney Pony is trained to handle gunfire and the jungle SMLE is in a scabbard for potential drivebyes. :shock:

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Quote Originally Posted by arctic hobo
    I'm a diehard walker, but in an ideal world a Greenland kayak would be my legs - think of it, out all day fishing and hunting seals, then go back to your camp on a tiny Norwegian island. Heaven :biggthump
    I would have to agree with you there AH. :super:

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    Default Re: What do you like best?

    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisKavanaugh
    In Los Angeles a restored Panzer Tiger might, might finally get the attention of SUV occupants with a cellphone in one hand, S tarbucks latte between their legs and the free hand strategically readied to render a one finger salute to those with the temerity to honk or fail to read their vehicle body language substituting for signals.
    :rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao:
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    Default Inflated?

    Hello, I'm a definate walker, but i also love taking my inflatable boat out on river trips... its fully inflatable no hard floor, so its VERY comfy to just chill out on and float down stream. Any body else used inflatables? I know I know, not very purist bushcrafty, but neither are 4x4s. But until u've leant up against a wooden canoe and an inflatable & compared the comfort.... mmmm such comfort! Had me and friends with equipment no prblems. And are very easy to pick up and carry if need be too. Any opinions?
    P.s, still love canoeing, just can't afford my own tho. Was considering a klepper (SBS style) but find myself lacking the 4 grand.

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    Where's the 500 Motocrosser option





















    Ahem.

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    I like hiking, sleadge-dog mushing was a hell of a lot fun, canoing is like meditation,
    Now I started to drive with a snow-maschine and I like it but it stinks and is noisy, still its fun.

    cheers
    Abbe

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    Well, if in the woods, it's walking or mountain biking, on the river it's kayaking, but equally i enjoy offroading on either motorbikes or 4x4s. No real preferance for either really as I equally enjoy all, it just depends on the mood i'm in, but obviously I walk the most.

    Would like to try paragliding this year. Should be a giggle...

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