DaleS

Paddling season seems a long way off. I look forward to mornings like this.

Some pre-Super Bowl paddling with my Son on Willapa Bay.

Snowshoe day trip in cuyahoga valley national park with my wife, father in law and Abby just before a snow squall hit yesterday...

Thanks, It a 14’ chestnut Fox replica built by Schuyler Thomson off of plans supplied by Doug Ingram, Red River Canoe. I finished it...

Time for some varnish on the gunnels, otherwise the shop dust came off and she looks ready to go.

Bucks on the creek bank.

My sisters and I in 1965. I still own this canoe.

potato pancake - jummy

What on earth would cause a turkey to stalk a panther?!... Is there a turkey on YouTube doing insane survivalist challenges?

Panther tracks on my access road: Wild turkey tracks at the same location I know they were less than 24 hours old because I had...

Yes. We used the engineers rule. And the architects rule. I have an undergrad degree in geography. When I started environmental...

Still use the foldable ruler, and I'm young enough that they were mostly on the way out when I was a kid. Good, solid, high-contrast...

i have one of those triangular scales, as well as a couple of slide manual rules. I did not much have need to use the scale as intended...

I ran across this old engineer's scale, from my cartographic drafting days. I started hand drafting maps from pencil manuscripts to...

I found my old slide rule recently while digging through storage. Might have to relearn how to use it just for fun. Dad's engineering...