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Welcome to the campfire Tom. That is some wild crazing on that malecite. I’m not sure how I would handle that but they don’t look like...

A fairly long posting here, for May 25, one of the very best days, as in "mesmerizing" of our entire winter sojourn. We sat outside...

That long hem is now sewn and except for the ties to join it to the side wings and pull outs it is finished and ready to join to the...

Since the back panel or roof has been sewn already I now could measure its width to start on the awning. The canvas was rolled out and a...

Every time I complete the steepest part of the Turtle to Clamshell portage, and am resting by that big boulder at the top of the trail...

I too need to "slouch" a bit more than normal to get comfortable while seated... car seat is way back, I use a standing desk at the...

Thanks for the correction. It’s been a long time since I read those books. Jim

Kathleen and I paddled the Seal River in northern Manitoba in 1997. From the mouth of the Seal River on Hudson Bay, we took this image...

I was on the shore of Lake Champlain on Grand Isle many years ago (20 or so) and thought I was having some sort of hallucinatory event...

Watching an enormous bird flock had me mesmerized in 2017. I couldn’t turn away. Lake paddling in the Adirondaks in the fall did it...

We enjoyed walking on the lake ice during our winter sojourn. But we were ready to paddle down the Anderson River to the Arctic Coast...

One clear and crisp fall night I was walking from my car to the house and heard a strange bird call that made me stop. It wasn't quite...

I love the sound of ice groaning and cracking and reverberating. Thanks for bring that up it definitely is one of those mesmerizing...

Got her loaded myself. 20# is considerable savings. I’m a Swiftie!

Paddlefest 2024 seems like it is a little bigger than last year, though not at the beach like pre-pandemic. Seems like a lot of the...