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How the scene was filmed: https://orionmagazine.org/article/wish-out-of-water/ "It’s a delightful little set-piece, little diminished by the fact that it’s a fiction: Flaherty put his cast into the kayak one by one, cutting the footage together using the intertitles."

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Don't tell @tketcham about double blading a Firebird. Your daughter should sign up for the Pine Barrens Functional Freestyle Symposium and try a Firebird, June Bug and Flashfire with single stick teachers. I thought that one guy—was it Mike?—was on a small inflatable raft.

I think "deadliest" refers to the ratio of folks who fall into the deepest part of The Strid and drown, which is claimed to be 100%. Of course, no one can prove that, and there have only been about five such definitely known events since William de Romilly. It makes sense that if you fall or...

Keith, thanks for that interesting report, pics and video. Very windy. (Not you - mother Nature.) It makes sense that a much narrower Rapidfire would be faster than a Shearwater, given the waterlines are about 24" vs. 28" and the Rapidfire would have less water friction and drag because of a...

@yixak, since you revel in optimistic euphemisms, enjoy your journeys in your rented "yacht" and feel free to post as many photos and words about it as you want.

Is that Indian Lake in the Adirondacks? Who paddled which canoe? They both look familiar.

The heavyset guy bow lining the canoe looks to me like Ray Goodwin, the famous UK canoeist, canoe instructor, trip leader, author and YouTuber. This seems to be confirmed by the blog of his expedition partner Paul Kirtley, who has published photos of a Ray Goodwin trip down the Bloodvein in...

Some questions, Alan. What kind of camera did you use to video, and how and where did you attach it? It's not the now-ubiquitous GoPro on the head. When you ran rapids, did you sit or kneel and did you use a bent or straight paddle? In rewatching the videos, did you find many things that you...

Tony, thanks for the report. What kind of tent is that?

Could be. But none of the actual known deaths had on life jackets or rescue teams on shore.

There is a section of the River Wharfe in Yorkshire, England, called The Strid. The Wharfe is about 25 meters wide as it flows through the countyside, but at The Strid it squeezes down to less than two meters. It is said that the river essentially turns 90° on its side, and its depth has been...

Yeah, but what about the small alligator crawling along the shore?

I just learned a new word, so I feel compelled to use it once in my life, especially since I believe I've experienced it. Have you ever experienced visual or auditory pareidolia on canoe trips, such as in the woods, the day sky, the night sky, the horizon, outside your tent, or in the water?