I tend to camp via the canoe usually. I carry a basketball net for one. You can stop anyway along the river and fill it up with rocks and tie it off with your rope so you can make an anchor and dont have to worry about paddling around with the weight when you don't want it. Also, breakfast-in-a-bag. Make whatever breakfast you like before you leave. A couple of raw broken eggs with a slice or two of cooked bacon or sausage, maybe some cheese, maybe some jalapenos and store them in individual zip locks. In the morning when you're out on the river just boil some river water, thus reducing the amount of water you have to carry, and drop the bag unopened into the boiling water. It cooks in about 2 minutes. Fish it out and dump the contents in a pita and there you go. Plus, you'll have warm water then to wash up with. The only trash is 1 zip lock person. I do the same with cornbread. If a package says put x amount of milk in I pour the amount of powdered milk in and then use a sharpie to mark the line in the ziplock that will be good for both the powdered milk as well as the corn bread mix plus my water. Close it up and cut the tip off and much like a piping bag you can then squirt out individual hoe-cakes. The trash? Again, just the bag. No matter how light I travel or how hard I'm planning on roughing it, I carry a full size pillow and I sleep on a full length therm-a-rest. I also use a hell of a lot of hand-sanitizer, unless it's cold. When it's cold the alcohol tends to ruin my hands.

Used my Katadyn microfilter on the Kiamichi a couple of weeks ago. Ran about 3 gallons through there. Tasted great and I didn't get sick so I give it 2 thumbs up so far.

Yes it is a good idea, but don't compliment Sancho, it puffs up his ego.

Take an old bic lighter and wrap duct tape on it. I always have some in truck, boat, camp box, day pack ect..Has come in handy many times.