CaptainOllieWest

Having relied on my father's hand in beginning my wilderness travel navigation instruction in heavily wooded Adirondack topography well...

Well as the seasons change here I haven't had a lot of time for the boat. Just a little bit here and there. I got out for one last...

Sometime in the past three years, likely as the result of some Canoecopia presentation or perhaps the River Kings Namekagon video...

The last moments of Summer in SW MI. Monday was the last sunny, hot, dry day of a long heat wave. Still in the 80s when I took the pic...

Long Pond, St.Regis Wilderness Area.

This week on the Namekagon

Autumn is comming.

In October 2025 in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, open canoes paddle through a canopy tunnel of coloring leaves and then disappear into...

Nor'easter approaches the Catskills.

This box was a gift for me from a paddle friend last weekend. 🥰 He handed me the box and said: Look, I brought you something... it's...

I fired up the stove today. It is gravity feed fuel and totally silent. Since it is gravity feed it has a breather hole in the tank lid...

I would love to go but, Google Maps says it's a 42 hour drive!

Hemlock Canoe is having lawn sale Saturday October 18th 20225 from 10 AM-3 PM 5407 Route 15A Hemlock, NY. Come shop the demo fleet, new...

Kunjamuk River near Speculator (ADK's)

Trip of a lifetime to Woodland Caribou Provincial park.