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My friend John in his SRT on one of the few full reservoirs in Utah this year. High Unitas mountain range

First paddle of the year today. Still more ice than open water. That mountain in the back is the new open pit mine in G-Town. The...

15 solo open canoes today on the Batsto River in the NJ Pine Barrens. 4 Savage Rivers (Ornstein designs), 4 Swifts, 3 Northstars, 2...

I'm just back from a week in France. First stop was the River Drome for the French Canoe festival which is the biggest in Europe. The...

Island Lake near Long Beach Washington

Evening paddle up Moose Creek, between Saranac Lake and Bloomingdale, NY

Spring

In prep for my week in the Jersey Pine Barrens, one short paddle last week was not enough for me to familiarize myself with the...

The way you've secured your boat trailer, it does have stabilizers at the front and back, but... the trailer completely lacks any...

OK guys... thanks for the input. As I suspected, and as confirmed by a few of you, the four corners technique apparently works... I...

I'm sure I could get by just fine without a watch but I like having one because it helps me estimate travel times. If I know I've...

I wear a Garmin 265s daily. I like it a lot. I do a fair amount of running and it's nice for that. When using it purely as a watch it...

Bill Mason demonstrated this at the end of his Song of the Paddle video. See the segment starting at 38:36 with the link below. Benson

I restored this Chestnut Bobs, it’s a fine paddling 15’ lightweight wood canvas canoe, not sure how much wind it can handle.

I was out in a blow with my wife and a friend we had as the saying goes “a bone in our teeth” and the mast broke. Didn’t end up in the...