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Early morning fog on Lows Lake, NY ADK’s

This is fellow forum member Penns Woods today on Hitchens Pond in the Adirondacks.

It's getting cold up here (water and temps) so I won't be going out much more this year. I noticed you have a Northstar Trillium. I have...

Though I have some experience canoeing from boy scouts, I only got serious about paddling in the last few years. My wife continually...

If that's not bad enough they're probably disrupting native fauna by eating local food sources and/or forcing the natives out of the...

As to "functional" being a relatively new term, it is, sort of. As I understand it, the early development of freestyle (originally...

When i am coaching freestyle I try to keep the clients/coachees/ paddlers stick to 1 side so their learning curve is the steepest...

That would be me. I'm not even a little bit interested in performing interpretive freestyle, but I appreciate those who do and those who...

We are drifting away from flat water freestyle, but switching hands is an important functional paddling issue. Lennart's reference is...

Oh, brother, yet another introduced species that ought to be dealt with before they become a big problem. But people will think they're...

TLDR: With a temperature drop from 70°F to 20°, a 16' Royalex hull wants to shrink over 3/8" but a wood gunwale only wants to shrink...

Perhaps Marc Ornstein will chime in but for me the difference between functional freestyle and functional paddling is that when I'm...

Comparative activity levels Based on recent forum activity in late 2025, Canoetripping.net appears to have higher recent activity in...

I just purchased a Tensa pole to set up single-tree hammock hangs for just this reason. The pole is a bit heavy but for camping and...

I was doing some web exploring regarding heeling and turning/carving (to make sure I'm not totally confused) and this article on the...