Recent content by Steve in Idaho

It's been a while since I had the Fisherman, but I think I can still comment. Because it's so short and wide, I don't think you can get a good vertical forward stroke with a bent shaft as you will need to avoid yaw - and especially from either seat. When I paddled the Fisherman solo, I found...

Kinda figured. I'll be leaving my ADA compliant EDC knife home.

Oh, I am so gonna do that!

Thanks for confirming my suspension about Duraflex. I continue to be impressed by the durability of even my kevlar Solitude with its S glass skin. Also reaffirms my thought that the Clipper P14 should be a great whitewater tripper.

Oh, good points! The waves I run from on the bigger lake are very different from what I was just on. Way more fetch. Way deeper water.

It occurs to me that I have never experienced a tailwind while loaded for a multi day trip. It's always been on day trips with not much more than myself in the canoe. So I did a test with the Solitude the other day. I've never paddled it with more than a day tripping load before, and I thought...

I hadn't even considered bear bangers. I was assuming they're not allowed in Bowron Lakes. I've always wondered.... aren't they kind of a fire hazard?

I only have two canoes with gelcoat, and I haven't done much scraping with them. So I can't say whether they will slide off a rock as easy as royalex. But what I do know is an outer layer of glass slides off just as well as rx or better, and with much less damage. My Millbrook Coho has a...

What's the latest on restrictions? I'm not having luck getting authorities to respond with useful information.

We actually had a discussion about that among local friends not long ago. Two recent incidents in which individuals were swept down the class 4 stretch of the Upper Payette next to highway 55 brought that to mind. If only one of the people who happened to be there and trying to help had a throw...

It's shocking to watch, and tempting to criticize. The video is instructional, but I hope if I witness such a thing that my first reaction will not be to record it, but rather to do something helpful.

Google wants me to take 3 from Osoyoos to Princeton and then 5a north from there. That's shorter and avoids the Kelowna traffic, but is it good road?

First time for me coming up soon. Of course Google gives me the shortest route. Can someone tell me what is the easiest route?

Don't count on it. 😄 The kayak I built back in '74 was similarly ugly camo, and it was stolen a couple years later.

It was an overnighter, but we cheated. We set up camp where you can drive to an access in the middle of our trip, and shuttled to the top by auto. Made it a very comfortable family trip with two easy days on the river. There's a big undeveloped camping area there, not far from the little town of...