Alan Gage

I picked up this late 90’s RX 16’ Penobscot a couple years ago on eBay with the intention of turning it into a solo river tripper. I am...

Whew, I'm tuckered out just reading about this Frankenstein trip: Plans discussed on CTnet. Thousands of miles of driving. Trains...

Hello all, It all comes to a happy end. The border went smooth as most thought it would. I had the same border guy as I saw when I...

I've learned not everybody enjoys rugged, difficult, scary sometimes painful adventures. Kids need easy trips where they feel safe and...

I spent much of my childhood going on fishing and camping trips with my father, uncles and cousins, always in the Adirondacks. Couldn't...

My first canoe trip I was still in diapers, and with a father who worked as a summer ranger for the old OLF before it became the MNR...

In a surprise to probably no one, especially my wife, I went ahead with the purchase. I want to thank everyone who contributed to the...

I paddled a beat up aluminum canoe once a year at church camp 3 years in a row when I was a kid and didn’t touch one again until I...

This is a 32 mile relay race from Catalina Island to Newport, California. It's a relay because different paddlers switch into the boats...

There’s two seasons in my household, hockey and canoeing. My kids live for their yearly canoe trip. It’s a necessary escape from the...

Such utilitarian pragmatists. Sheesh . . . where are your aesthetic sensibilities? Do you not polish your scuffed alligator leather...

A scratched canoe is a happy canoe! :ROFLMAO:

I canoed with my father a few times/year as a kid fishing the local river and I paddled a couple times solo on the lake to go fishing...

My kids (now nine and eleven) have been paddling with me since they were 4 or 5. I never pushed it, but always asked if anyone wants to...

Here's my 61lb heeler in the Shearwater last weekend, he likes to be in front of me or he scoots himself half under the thwart