Mason

Not the same Monarch. The Monarch Alan brought up is the expedition solo by Mad River, used/designed by Steve Landick. Verlen Kruger...

Can't wait to see what $10,000 can buy you!

Maybe things have changed, but we filtered our water for an 11 day trip in 2000 with no problem (though slower after I gummed up the...

If only homophobia didn't have different connotations......

I've had a couple of 16 Penobscots, and it's a nice river tourer, probably the fastest (i.e. most efficient) Royalex canoe out there...

And then there was the school teacher up there that was killed some years back.

In contrast to Wayback, this summer's flights to/from the Horton, in a Pilatus Porter, came to $20,000 CDN!!!! It worked out to $4K US...

Riding with the Wayback Machine, in 1977 we flew into the Allagash (Chesuncook???), and they shuttled my car to the takeout at Allagash...

Brings back even more memories! I ran into W. Nealy at a state park in southern Utah back in 1980-81. I remember Whitewater Home...

I have a friend that used to solo canoe (MR Rx Explorer) part of the Owyhee on an almost annual basis (his dog is even buried there...

I used to surf that hole in a kayak in the 70s. Back then it was rated IV. I've looked for other stuff I paddled back then, and most...

And his "Franklin, Oops Mud and Cupcakes" book is available on Kindle, just the thing for reading on long trips. It fits in nicely with...

Way overbuilt. Single 2x4s all around are adequate for 70# canoes. I've stored 3 canoes on 2x4 uprights attached to a log home with...

That'll go over well with this crowd!

As a wildlife biologist (especially in Alaska), I spent a lot of time in both fixed wings and rotaries. Airplanes: Super Cubs, Maule...