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Yep. They even cut & pasted the "about" write-up where they talk about their Moscow, Idaho headquarters. (they did, however, remove the...

My brother, a formerB-52 pilot and a then TWA pilot, was an early adopter of modern sport hot air ballooning beginning in the mid 1960's...

The 2034 Winter Olympics will be in Salt Lake City, if Lake Placid made a bid for another winter games it would probably be for 2046 or...

I lived in Saranac Lake from ‘72 to ‘77 and left when we heard the Olympics were coming in the ‘80’s just didn’t want to see the...

No snow, but a quarter inch of ice on a bowl of water set outside. Mangoes and bananas are hit hard. :(

No snow from this system here in Iowa. We had some heavy snow early but not much since then. On the other hand it hasn't been over 20...

I'm running into the same kind of thing with bicycle accessory companies. First hint is the too-good-to-be-true prices.

They mimic NRS's website very, very well. At first I thought it was some kind of alternative online store for water sport/safety...

I was just doing some window shopping at NRS and came across this page...

Good way to meet girls. Hey, I was young. Turned out to be a good way to see animals. Alas, no girls😕. I guess a serious response is...

That's a road though, right? So a cart would be usable?

I've never tried tying the paddles in. Thanks for the recommendation. I had remembered the portage as 1 mile. Caltopo has it as 1.5mi:

I remember those days. My first trip (BWCA) included wrapping the center thwart in pool noodle & duct tape... didn't work badly IMO...

Are you required to pay if you're willing to carry? Diablo to Ross in 2021 was my first ever portage. That said, we were a day or two...

My father... He was an avid hiker and mountain climber. He climbed Mount Raineri in 1962, and led a lot of winter hikes in the White...