Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

Glad to see the site could facilitate another boat transaction. Post some pictures when you get a chance. That is an iconic canoe.

Many canoeists have paddled the Green River, which is the Colorado's largest tributary. We have trip reports of the Green on this site. But did you know there is: ". . . an American mystery which has baffled geologists for a century and a half: How did a river carve a path through a mountain...

I can't be sure and didn't count the dots, but I doubt the blue and yellow dots on the EPA natural lake/reservoir distribution map are attempting to show all 111,119 lakes sampled. It's more likely just a graphic summary. Here is what the text of the report says, which seems to indicate that the...

"More people are getting outside than ever before. Since the pandemic, parks visitation has hit record highs. In 2024, the U.S. National Park Service reported a record 331.9 million visits. North of the border where I am, more than 23 million people visited Parks Canada sites in 2024-2025, up...

It's blindingly non-obvious to me why no one has suggested the blindingly obvious: a coffee mug with a spill-proof lid. Then . . . in any wind or wave conditions in your canoe . . . you can . . . Let the Good Times Roll.

Looking forward to it, guys . . . this decade.

Tangent: You and everyone else will have the opportunity to make contributions on November 1, 2026, when our first fundraiser in three years will begin.

Dams have been unfairly and unwisely d*mned, including on this site. Without dams, both the lentic and lotic canoeing waters of the USA would be impoverished. Let's start with extreme lotic waters: whitewater rivers. Without dams, whitewater runs for normal paddlers would be limited to a...

Chesapeake Light Craft sells two varieties of foam pads for crossbars, one variety specifically for aero bars. Here's the page from their website: https://clcboats.com/products/aero-roof-rack-pads

That's quite deep. Just curious, where do you see that spec, Brian?

Deal/Hemlock SRT power! Thanks for taking the time to write up your report and posting it here, @gadabyte.

WNW, thanks for taking the time to document your first canoe build on our site. I'm not a builder, but I've looked closely at the specs, price, pictures, and videos of this canoe and have some comments. There probably are zero mentions of a complete CLC strip kit here. The retail price of...

"The best viewing conditions in a decade for the Perseid meteor shower — under a new moon? And a total solar eclipse at the same time? It’s all happening on August 12." "You can expect to see an average of up to 100 meteors per hour during the Perseids' peak." "The Perseids can be seen from...

What I don't understand, because I've never researched the subject, is what happened to the original purposes for which the 2,300 removed dams were originally built. They weren't built as hobbies. I assume they were built for important (or seemingly important) purposes such as hydropower...

It depends. "When engineers pull the plug on a dam, the lake behind it does not just quietly fade away. A reservoir is an artificial, still-water (lentic) system, and removing the barrier that holds it back triggers a rapid shift back into a flowing (lotic) river. Of course the water drains...