I don't own a canoe, but if I bought one, it'd probably be a kevlar lightweight or similar synthetic. Of course, this isn't traditional canoe country in the way the upper midwest and Canada are.
I suspect that many of us here are traditionalists to a degree; hence the interest in the old stoves. I am, but find that I'm very mixed in the purity department.
So when I nordic ski, which is often, I always wear my army surplus wool pants and suspenders. But it's strictly polypropylene underwear and tops; I'm not crazy, after all!
I hiked as a kid with logger boots, a Trapper Nelson pack, and my Optimus 45. I'll take a smaller brass stove today, but heck with the old boots and pack!
I pride myself on only using leather boots and heavy three-pin bindings to ski; nuts to the modern "systems" boots and bindings. I have a roomful of waxable narrow metal edged skis that I buy for practically nothing after the shops couldn't get rid of them (215 and 220 cm skis). Not for me the modern deeply-sidecut "cheaters". But mine are all synthetics; I own no wooden skis.
So I'm a throwback, all right; to about 1989!
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