Recent content by Steve in Idaho

Around here, one night add blue/green algae to the mix. In other places, dangerous reptiles. ;)

I sure miss my old Trooper with its steel gutters.

Well, I found a killer deal on some used unknown brand of gutter mount bars (maybe Thule or similar "aero" bars). From all I read, the load capacity should be at least about 90 lbs. That will do for any of my solo canoes, the heaviest being about 45 lbs. It will certainly be fine with the 30 lb...

I see what you did there. ;)

It's an interesting question. I don't know how to answer, because I can't imagine how one would reliably determine it. My local lake has somewhat restricted access, and is aligned pretty close to the prevailing wind. It's about seven miles long, so it doesn't take a really strong wind to build...

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...