Recent content by Steve in Idaho

^Yes, loading and carrying - those are the things that seem to get harder quickest without training. I use some free weights and elastic bands for keeping those muscles in reasonable shape. I paddle and pole as often as I can, as long as the water doesn't get hard. Usually short trips of a...

Welcome to the forum, NoyoPacific! And thanks for confirming the nature of that Traveler III. Enjoy!

Good points. The mostly flat stretch of our local Snake River from Swan Falls dam to Walters Ferry has claimed a lot of lives. Though flat and wide, it's pushy and littered with strong eddies, boils, seams, and sucky whirlpools. Not a good place to swim. I don't fear it - maybe I should - but I...

This was a safety award at my job, back in '89. Not my best or favorite spinning kit, but it's actually pretty good although not as sensitive as my good rods. It goes with me whenever I think things might get rough, and the thing has caught a lot of fish. No idea what's currently available along...

LOL. Mom gave me one for Christmas when I was a kid. It actually went with me on some bicycle trips, and it did catch fish.... sometimes. I still have it tucked away somewhere.

My vote would be for the Penobscot. I haven't paddled the other two, but I had a Penobscot that I paddled solo and poled. It did fine in short class 2 drops, but that was without a tripping load. Just the same, I think it would be fine with a reasonable load paddled solo. Pretty sure it's going...

I've toyed with the idea of a drop stitched Sea Eagle canoe. My experience with inflatable SUPs makes me think it would be an acceptable performer for times when a hard shell would be problematic. I've only seen one in person one time though, and it was a very brief encounter.

Humor is all about timing. :)

Poor Bogan. And worse - the cat taunts from freedom. ;)

Oh man.... I remember desert boots. Didn't take me long to hate those. Should've called them sand collectors.

Not canoe related, but one of my favorite funny memories.... A buddy and I were up in the woods near the Seven Devils wilderness, hunting turkeys. We had set up a decoy in a small clearing at the foot of a hill, and were calling from our hidey hole at the edge of the clearing. We had a little...

:ROFLMAO: That is hilariously irreverently hilarious!

Awesome birthday cake, @memaquay ! Talent on display there. I love what you're doing there with the kids. And happy birthday!

Whitewater doesn't scare me. It's the rocks and trees that are hiding in that water (very common around here) that scare me. That was the demise of Walt Blackadar on the nearby south fork of the Payette. If you don't know who that is, you should, and it should give you pause. I have a rule...

Crocks, huh? That one surprised me. I find a lot of those floating in eddies on my local river. Never a matching pair. I never gave them a thought for my use. But - antimicrobial? Maybe I'll take a closer look. My current three favorite luxuries.... 1) Was my Helinox chair, but a couple years...