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Mushroom Cloud on the Smallwood Reservoir in Labrador (2022). The "funny" part was that it coincided with a test ICBM launch by Little Rocket Man.

There are written reports (with pics) of this trip and others in the same area at the Al Stirt website. https://www.alstirt.com/kogaluk-river

All carbon wear......top one has a few years of moderate use, the bottom one (mine) 9 years / 8000+ km of excessive abuse.

This HD-1 has(had?) an electric bilge pump installed in the pedestal, at the opposite end of the pedestal there was a back up manual pump! The bike and the boat belonged to my 2nd regular tripping partner (1999-2011). The owner, a rafting guide and part time park'n'play paddler taught me a...

Solo's I own......in order of purchase (all used) - Mad River Guide, this was a major improvement over using a tandem as a solo. - Swift Raven, I bought this mostly for my tripping partner to use since he only had a small ww boat (Perception HD-1) - Mohawk XL14, a major step up from the super...

At least half the paddles I own are on the river salvage! Back in the days when I used to dump at least once on every trip and frequently more often I was known for never letting go of my paddle. Unfortunately all of the nice paddles I've found were dropped by one of my companions so I had to...

I am NOT a "teddy bear"!

I wouldn't speak for "I" but speaking for myself that is exactly what I will be doing 37 days from now! (I will be dragging around the one C5).

I have "goon stroked" about 5,000km with my all carbon Bandit. Cupped blades take a little bit of time to get used to. I usually carry an ottertail as a spare but only use it on calm lakes or minimal current rivers that have a reasonable water depth. 60 years of paddling and I've never mastered...

I had a foot long crack in my Explorer, not a cold crack but in the typical location for cold cracks. The crack was through both inner and outer layer. I had broken both gunnels so had someone experienced repair/replace the gunnels. All they did for the crack was to fill it with epoxy. This...

Here is today's image from space....from Zoom Earth which uses the same Sat images as the NASA site but I prefer the Zoom interface.

Snow depth in this image is in centimetres.......besides depth, the density is also a factor. (image is from Windy.com)

I'm from Ontario, my family owned a Peterborough and when it was stolen in the mid-60's a Lakefield, both were w/c and both plus any of the same type were always referred to as "cedar strip" in these parts. Tarting them up as faux birch bark was somewhat common especially for the lower priced...

On that day I was onboard the train from Cochrane to Moose River Crossing, a "special eclipse train", there was a large group of people from all over Ontario/Quebec and the US. A mix of academic types and amateur sky watchers. We were lucky enough to have reasonably clear skies. This link...