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The good thing about living in southern New England is that we can usually paddle all winter. The bad thing is that we rarely get...

White's? That was THE boot when I went looking for field boots that met firefighting requirements. I ended up getting a pair of Nick's...

I had the opportunity to paddle in the bow of Grumman canoes a few times when I was younger and enjoyed it but wasn't overly impressed...

You mean an Illusion? ;)

Looks like a scam, or at best a reseller. The nrsoutdoorsafety.com domain name is registered in China and has been around less than a...

I was just doing some window shopping at NRS and came across this page...

I'm running into the same kind of thing with bicycle accessory companies. First hint is the too-good-to-be-true prices.

They mimic NRS's website very, very well. At first I thought it was some kind of alternative online store for water sport/safety...

Not much here in Troncones, Mexico!

Those little suckers also need a host so deep snow with bitter cold can help control their population if enough deer starve to death...

We have a 'wedding cake' of snow on top of the deck table. Benson

I haven't measured it in southern Ontario, but it's over my knees, and so deep (maybe 2' on top of the 8' a few days ago) that it took...

After 40 or so years of building paddles, I finally built one that will likely never be used. It will hang on a wall, in my home. It's...

That's a work of art. Beautiful. I got pretty good at growing quality timber but never did figure out how to make use of the lumber.

Not sure what you mean about pushing the design envelope. If it's shallower depths to decrease wind resistance, I don't think so...