Bags, Barrels & Cases

Barrels are ideal for canoe trippers to store and transport all things food related as they keep rodents and other small animals out.

The EXPEDITION Canoe/Portage pack will get your gear comfortably and securely over the roughest portage trails. Our largest canoe pack is designed to work hard and perform up to the highest expectations. Loaded with features that will be appreciated every time you travel to your favourite paddling destinations or adventures into new lands.

A rugged full featured pack at a reasonable price. Add the optional Internal Frame, Tumpline or Super Tump.

Portage your gear comfortably and securely over the roughest portage trails with the full size PADDLER canoe/portage pack. Our 2nd largest canoe pack is designed to work hard and perform up to the highest expectations. Loaded with features that will be appreciated every time you travel to your favourite paddling destinations or adventures into new lands.

A rugged full featured pack at a reasonable price. Add the optional Internal Frame, Tumpline or Super Tump.

Portage your canoe barrel or canoe pack with the added efficiency of a Tumpline. A Tump transfers weight from the load directly to your forehead and down your spine relieving pressure off your shoulders. The voyageurs used to only use a tump to carry their loads. Those who love the tumpline swear by it.

The tumpline is designed so you can add it or remove it from your barrel harness or canoe pack. Unique design allows for the tumpline to be adjusted while you are wearing it to get the right length for comfort while carrying your portage load.

For those who love a tumpline, RBW has just upped the game with the Super Tump. A wider and longer head pad with a soft fleece side is the most comfortable tumpline available. Portage your canoe barrel or canoe pack with the added efficiency of a tumpline. A tumpline transfers weight from the load directly to your forehead and down your spine relieving load pressure from your shoulder-straps. The Indigenous peoples and voyageurs used to only use a tumpline to carry their loads. Those who love the tumpline swear by it.

The Super Tump is designed so you can add it or remove it from your barrel harness or canoe pack. Unique design allows for adjustment while you are wearing it to get the right length for comfort while carrying your portage load.

The Bow Line Bag – for both safety and convenience.  This bag lets you quickly stuff your bow line or painter ropes out of the way, then get them back out just as quickly.  Safety, since there is no longer a lose rope coiled at your feet and your throw bag is still available to use.  Convenient to pull out the rope when you land to tie off and secure your canoe/kayak/raft.  Equally convenient and fast to stuff rope back into the bag for getting back on the water or for keeping the ropes out of the way when portaging.

Portage your 60L, 30L or 20L canoe barrel comfortably and securely with the EXPEDITION barrel harness by Recreational Barrel Works. A graduate from miles of experience on the roughest portage trails. You have found a harness designed to work hard and perform up to the highest expectations.

This harness is designed to fit most body sizes and features generous padding on the shoulder straps, hip-belt and back-pad between you and the barrel. Other advantages are features like multiple attachment points for shoulder strap adjusters – great for taller people, a longer hi-viz shoulder tension adjustment strap which is easier to reach when wearing the harness.  A webbing strap across the top of the barrel to secure your load and serves as a place for extra clothing layers or your PFD while on the portage.

Put this canoe pack liner inside your pack and waterproof all your gear inside at once.

A durable and light waterproof fabric unlike the heavy PVC bags.

These Pocket Organizers are used inside your barrel and are another great way to organize your stuff.  They fit in the barrel around the stacked barrel buckets or cooler. Keeps small items organized and prevents them from getting lost in your barrel.

Pocket Organizers are very useful for keeping multiple items together and easy to locate.  Great for: snacks,  juice mixes, soup mixes, hot chocolate packets, tea, hot oatmeal packets, spices and more.

Waterproof for real.  A map case designed by paddlers for paddlers.  Finally a map case that can live up to the claim of being waterproof.  Using a waterproof zipper, like a dry-suit, this map case is what paddlers have long wished for.

Viewable from both sides with clear UV resistant panes surrounded by durable material with 4 heavy duty D-rings to lash to your deck or packs.

Large viewing area is big enough for topo maps and more.  This map case with RF welded seams is electronic device friendly and handles hot and cold temperatures while being PVC-free and BPA-free.

This insulated barrel cooler is shaped to fit inside your 60L, 30L or 20L barrel. The zippered lid opens easily to ease your access to the cooler contents. The Barrel Cooler keeps fresh and frozen foods longer and helps protect perishables or squishable items from the tough journey so they are yummy when you want them.

The camp Kitchen Organizer / Utensil Roll keeps all your meal utensils, tools and ingredients organized in spacious zippered pockets.  Clips to the side of your barrel or hang it from a line while at camp.  Quickly un-clips and rolls up for storage when you have broken camp and are moving on.

Recreational Barrel Works’ classic washable Barrel Buckets are made from heavy 200D pack cloth and this one has a zippered lid.  A great way to keep food organized in your barrel.  Easy to load and unload with one hand – simply lift out and in with the attached strap handle.
Keeps your food organized, visible and allows you to get to the bottom of the barrel quickly. And put everything back into the barrel just as quickly.