Recent content by eckilson

It is a little early to be coming up with year-end totals – there are still a couple of months to go. ;) I don’t track miles, but I do keep track of all my trips. So far this year I’ve done 42 trips with 15 flatwater, 13 whitewater, 11 sea kayak and 3 tripping. My 10-year average is 54...

Wow - you have a club that is all canoes, and the club has "grounds". I'll say it again - wow! Looks like a great event.

Color scheme is called magma, which works. Also looks like fall foliage, especially this time of year.

Its that time of year when dam operators across the northeast drawdown water levels in reservoirs in anticipation of winter's snow and rain. A lot of these drawdowns are scheduled on weekends so whitewater paddlers can take advantage of the release. Yesterday was the second weekend for the...

I have both a composite (white gold) WildFire and RX Yellowstone Solo. Love them both. Back in the day (2009) when P-net had lots of open boaters, the composite vs RX Wildfire debate was pretty common. At some point Charlie Wilson chimed in with the story of the development of the composite...

When I started paddling (2005), the Great Canadian Canoe Company was located on Route 146 in Sutton, MA. It was probably located in Worcester, MA at some time before that. They were a distributor, not a manufacturer - importing canoes and kayaks from Canada and reselling them under the Great...

Thanks for posting this. I've been thinking about getting a reflector oven. I found this one Piragis and got it, along with a new pot grabber. :) I love bringing my Dutch Oven along when camping. It is great for stuff that requires long periods of even, sustained heat - anything thick and...

For years I had the Bell Canoeworks version of this pad. https://www.comfykayak.com/products/foam-canoe-kneeling-pad?com_cvv=8fb3d522dc163aeadb66e08cd7450cbbdddc64c6cf2e8891f6d48747c6d56d2c&srsltid=AfmBOopU348i3j2_jVAsDo8WTyFNwN7OorUc-S_PVhOwF_NWqzjrpV6LwL0 It was fine, but when it wore out...

A moose on the Allagash - took one look and kept on eating.

I never paddled as a kid. I was 29 when my father got me out in a canoe for the first time. We paddled the Pontock Rapids on the Androscogin River with the Boston AMC in his then brand new Mohawk Whitewater 16. I loved it, but had a 2-year old at home, and another on the way. It was 15-years...

Getting there, but I think it will be a couple more weeks before peat. With the drought, everything is kind of dull and brown this year.

By the way, loving my Millbrook Outrage. This was my second trip. It surfs great and I bail it out with a sponge. The only problem is dumping the boat is no longer an excuse to get out and stretch. :)

Scheduled releases on the Fife Brook section of the Deerfield River end in October. With three weeks of travel for work coming up, I knew I would have to go this weekend if I wanted to catch one. When I saw a trip on the MOC Facebook group, I decided to join. We had a group of 6 - 2 canoes, 2...

Keep the tent closed up as much as possible. They still get in, but it has never been that bad. I'm more of a spring/fall camper, so I am in a sleeping bag. Swat the ones you can, hide from the ones you can't.

I've witnessed a couple of heart-stopping run-ins with strainers. One was a kayaker who tried to go over a log, but flipped over backwards and ended up going under it upside down and backwards. The other was a swimmer who went into the strainer feet first, but somehow managed to twist himself...