Recent content by Steve in Idaho

I like it.

Good idea. I've never used AC when actually camping in the RV, and never really missed it. You might want to look into portable diesel heaters. But anyway, I've been getting by with a Buddy propane heater when winter camping in my truck cap.

Much activity around here is scheduled around the expected appearance of bg algae. Previous reports have stated that the brain eating amoeba is found primarily in warm waters. I wonder if the geothermal contributions to Yellowstone waters are in play here.

I didn't have any early childhood experience with canoes. I practically lived on bicycles instead. First floating object I paddled (and poled) was a huge chunk of styrofoam (probably part of someone's previously destroyed floating dock) on the tidal waters of the Napa River. In my teens, I...

Oh, I see now. Looked at the website. I like the idea of fully customizable, and at that price range.

What are we looking at here? It looks like a bay door behind a partial bulkhead (?) with windows and some kind of pass-through?

My first, what I would call a trip, was poling upstream on the South Fork of the Payette from Grandjean, into the Sawtooth Wilderness. Before that, everything was just messing about locally for part of a day. Grandjean is at the end of the road where designated wilderness begins. There is no...

Thanks for the etrailer suggestion. I should have thought of that.

I just bought a JK series four door Wrangler. Anybody else here carrying canoes on one? What kind of rack system are you using? The roof gutters don't seem robust enough to me for gutter mounts.

I think the Clipper Solitude is maybe somewhere in between, but leaning towards cutting through waves. It's what I take to the lake when wind is in the forecast, and what I paddle upstream in the Snake. Very stable, turns well enough when heeled. I'm pretty sure it's not as fast as slimmer...

Ever since the new Bronco came out, I have suspected that someone on the Ford design team is a canoeist. Why else would those handles be there.

Welcome, @Okraman . You live in some beautiful country. I haven't paddled there yet but it's on my to do list.

Welcome @Moonswept Blackwater . I think you'll like that Malecite. Still one of my favorite canoes. You'll notice that it feels a little unsteady without a load and at rest, until you get used to it. It's one of the nicest tandems for paddling solo.

I wasn't looking for one, but a year or so ago I picked up a like new Bending Branches Viper double bent because the price was too good to pass up ($50) and I thought it would be interesting to try. I didn't think I was liking it at first, but I kept trying it over time, and it's growing on me...

Well then..... Getting pretty popular around here.