Odyssey

First paddle of the year on the Athabasca River near Jasper, Alberta.

Cree River, Summer 2023. Paddling Pitt, isn't it nice to know you were correct the first time? ;) The big excitement for this rest day...

Getting my wood canvas canoes up on my trucks roof racks is still doable but getting harder each spring so I found this on Face Book...

The walleye season confuses me. So it closes mid April and reopens late May? I assume the closure relates to spawning?

In general, an artifact has a cultural context. Time is irrelevant in whether or not the item is an artifact. Field archaeologists will...

Should've replaced those CarbFibe rails with ash gunnels. lol

Cripes, I forgot what lake ice looked like in spring. Last time I spent any time on it we were playing shinny. Nice pics of a great...

It's been all work no play this year, haven't been outside at all this winter. Walleye season closed this weekend, so Irene and I...

Aslowhand and I drove for several hours into the French part of Switzerland to paddle on Lac de Joux. The paddle in to this favorite...

We launched from Kanu Klub Thun put-in. I also had a borrowed life jacket from them. It is the most comfortable and secure life jacket...

[Admin note: I have moved the following two posts by @Erica into their own thread in this forum from the Photo of the Day thread.] For...

funny story about spam- one time we were snowshoeing into an area looking for a lost lake that even the locals didn't know existed, it...

I have to challenge the idea that a skeg will automatically add efficiency to a canoe. I call on my sailing dinghy experience for this...

No need for a skeg or rudder on a canoe. Maybe it could be useful if you only paddle lakes for the rest of your life. I built a sea...

Many of us here own multiple canoes, for a variety of reasons. I'd like to think it is because each canoe does something better than the...