Recent content by Glenn MacGrady

In my whitewater days 40 years ago, I had a nice rubber bladder canteen that would collapse somewhat as it emptied. It also had a convenient string attached to the screw cap so you wouldn't lose it when trying to sip water between rapids. Blaze orange color and it floated. I have no idea what...

Brookie, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running...

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Clint, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running...

"In March our phone rang, opening another chapter in our FreeStyle Canoeing story. Tryon Lindabury, and his late wife Anne were, without any doubt, the best tandem instructors in the FreeStyle world. We were fortunate to take lessons from the Lindaburys for many years. Tryon is now living in a...

Gadzooks, I'm old. I recall like yesterday when John Berry sold Millbrook Boats to Kaz in 1988. I still have my Berry-built Millbrook ME from 1982, which was refurbished by Kaz around 1994. According to John Berry's personal notes, the ancestral roots of Millbrook sprouted in his Bethesda...

Can we conclude that if we are outdoor-oriented and nature-loving canoeists—who happen to be inclined toward asociality, misanthropy or anthropophobia—we might actually favor increased biophobia among other daggum homo sapiens? Asking for a friend.

Lots of "phobias" and "isms" in the modern culture wars don't make etymological sense. The word you are looking for could be either "misanthropy" or "anthropophobia."

For at least 25 years, the only televisions we've had are two old, standard definition, 4:3 Sony CRTs. I didn't mind because I rarely watch TV and, when I did, I could watch the Spectrum channels on my laptop computer. But this fall Spectrum shut off my cable boxes and sent me new ones, which...

"Scientists have a name for the creeping dislike or even fear many people feel toward nature: biophobia. A new review of 196 studies reveals that this aversion to the natural world may be growing, with researchers warning of potential threats to both human well-being and environmental protection...

Did you watch the video? The entire premise of the 1 (min.)-10 (min.)-1 (hr.) Principle is to wear a life jacket. If you are (or if you can somehow climb onto a an overturned boat), the first module of the in-water training is how not to panic for the first one minute by learning how to...

I've never paddled the Mohawk or Dagger, but I've paddled the Penobscot solo and tandem on lakes and rivers. I'm probably in the minority in saying I'm not a fan of the hull. I'd be more tempted by the specs of the 15' Dagger Reflection for a solo trip. I suspect it's more stable than the...

If you dump into cold water, you have some time.

André, does the lake ever freeze to ice?

In this photo, the ranger seems to be holding the top of the blade with his right hand. I never thought about doing that with any of my paddles, but it certainly would be possible with the very long and narrow "quill blade" paddles. Maybe that's how some paddlers of yore executed corrections...