Mason

Yep, that's when I started. Payson Kennedy's "Carolina Whitewater" was the bible. Blue Hole canoes, Romer helmets, and Seda vests...

Yes, fly in and out (we use PakCanoes). We didn't see any polar bears, but we did see 8 grizzlies. We spend a very leisurely 32 days...

Yeah, big trips are good for the miles. 365 this summer on the Horton. I had planned a weeklong Quetico trip following, but had to...

Electric fence on Icy Bay, Alaska--weeklong kayak trip. Electric fence on 11 day raft trip, Alsek-Tatshenshini rivers, AK/YK/BC...

They'll put out 5000 volts. Although I haven't used the UDAP one, battery operated fences are commonly used in grizzly country around...

UDAP has one that weighs less than 4 pounds (electric fence). One BearVault weighs 2 1/4 pounds.

I guess our wolves aren't so bad.

I paddled the Nantahala a fair bit in the mid-late 70s, and remember it mostly as a gas station and restaurant. It quickly changed! By...

I have a friend that has mentioned doing it next year, but he has other trips in mind, too (which I hope to do with him). I'll throw...

It's interesting this thread popped back up. Adam Shoalts has a new book out about Hubert Darrell, who disappeared on the Anderson...

When my daughter and I were going through the papyrus waterways of the Okavango via makoro a few years ago, all of a sudden the boats...

Here's another from my Horton Trip--Arctic ground squirrel (sik-sik). This time I added something for scale.

Yeah, I usually give something for scale, but.... I believe this was an old female. The skull was smaller than expected, and the...

Muskox tracks along the Horton River, NWT.

Grizzly skull, shore of Franklin Bay near mouth of the Horton River, NWT.