Recent content by bcelect

I was there, even the same site the last week in July. They had some nasty storms the week before, damaged canoes and a midnight ranger evacuation. I try to get up somewhere once a month until ski season. We did have a nice snowy, hot tent winter camp and paddle before the ponds froze last...

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Wow has it been over eight years already?

Nice writeup, a lot of us are just itching to get back onto, not so much into, the water. What drysuit did you go with and did you try one on beforehand? I believe you have justified my decision to get one.

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Long Pond, St.Regis Wilderness Area.

Knobs with Allen Cap Screws.

I am assuming that the Swift threads are just a Rivnut and can be a bit delicate in the carbon fiber gunwale. Be careful not to lift the boat pulling up on these but they will hold the yoke in place with no problem.

How did you make out Blackfly? I just made one for mine. I bought a cherry Yoke from Northwest Canoe Outfitters. The knob I used, is a round knob, from Ace Hardware and the bolt is a 3" stainless steel, Allen cap screw, fully threaded, and cut down to allow five turns into the rivnut. The knob...

They started to hatch in and around Paul Smiths today, they weren’t too hungry yet.

I haven't been to Lows in a couple of years, I should get back there soon.

Not liking the new format on ADK. Anybody else?

I was on it this morning.

You probably cant go wrong there this time of year, it may get busy on Friday and Saturday but if you are there early enough on Friday you can most likely snag a choice site. I carried from Floodwood to Long Pond back in August, I was able to get the least desirable site early on a Friday...

Have you tried the DEC website? https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/mapbogrivcamp.pdf Yes the lower dam is where most put ins occur, parking is tight in the lot on busy weekends and summer weeks. Parking along the road is acceptable. There are even a site or two along the driveway to...