Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

I've had a Nemo Roamer single XL pad for over a year now, which is a 4" thick foam-air mattress. It came with an air-capture bag pump, but even that is somewhat of a hassle since you have to breathe moist air into it. Deflating the mattress to fit in the stuff sack is an even bigger hassle for...

Well, if there were concrete kayak competitions, would they be allowed to be posted here? Who runs this joint, anyway? I was curious and I looked it up. Europe also has a concrete watercraft race called the Betonkanorace—and, ironically, it is held every year somewhere in . . . the Netherlands...

You don't like concrete? Where would the 22,500 km of Netherlands dikes be without concrete. Oh, maybe a lot more canoeing water. The concrete canoe competition has been going on among U.S. universities for about 30 years. It is an engineering competition for the students, who likely don't...

How freakishly unusual for @recped! He may rarely "get the worm," but like the equally famous Gary Cooper, he usually begins the blazing action in his stories sometime after "High Noon." And this story sounds like it will be a good one, guys. Lots of interesting detail. Thanks for taking us along.

The REI six-person tents have evolved over the years. The Kingdom 6 was introduced in 2011 and was a very popular tent. It was replaced in 2022 by the Wonderland 6, which I sense was less popular. The Wonderland 6 was just replaced in the spring of 2026 by the Westward 6 tent. Overall, I like...

"A New Zealand man said his solo paddling adventure through Canada’s wilderness taught him about the Great White North’s majestic landscapes and the beauty of human nature." "Tom Hudson boarded a canoe in the Rockies and, over the course of 216 days, discovered Canadians keen to help him...

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After a lot of research, watching of YouTube videos, conversing with AI LLMs, and ultimately visiting an REI store, I returned my REI Halfdome 3 tent three days before my one-year return period expired and bought an REI Base Camp 6 for myself. They honored the 20% discount coupon with which I...

The professor in the video seems to be advancing a hypothesis that is somewhat different from the lithospheric drip hypothesis, since he doesn't really focus on a subsidence of the mountain range caused by a heavy drip formation in the crustal mountain range root, followed by a re-uplifting of...

Ah, nostalgia . . . for us 1960s and 70s geezers who furnish our tents, if not our canoes, with lava lamps, bean bag chairs and shag carpets.

My paddling (?) partner (obsessed with photographing loons), canoe designer, paddle maker and freestyle instructor, Marc Ornstein, at the put-in of Boreas Ponds in the Adirondacks, NY. I forgot to post my on-lake photos in the Boreas Ponds thread, which I shall now do shortly. Marc and I both...

Alan, I recall you are watching some geology courses, but I believe the phenomenon you are describing—mountains that silted over with debris and hence became flat land—is one of the theories that the brand new (February 2026) "lithospheric drip" hypothesis rejects. As the author of the study...

"The modern Colorado River's headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains, flowing southeast to the river's mouth in the Gulf of California." Well, what do you expect. The second article is from the lamestream media (NBC), while the first is from a physics journal.