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After thinking for the third time, "Surely this is the end of the rapids and lac Octavie will appear around the next bend," the water...

LOL. There is a current trip report from a paddler who just finished it. The trip report is being done in installments so it's not...

There are a lot of trees in the water that I assume are from Spring floods. I grew up paddling whitewater so I didn't find any of it...

Ozone. I use an O3 generator to deodorize my hunting gear. O3 is widely used in industry for odor elimination. A couple precautions...

I had planned to canoe the Allagash River from Churchill Dam to Allagash Village, starting on September 30th. However, with the flow at...

This thing has had a bit of a workout now so I thought I'd give one final update. I used 3/16" strips with 6oz E-glass on the outer...

I am intimately familiar with odors caused by prolonged exposure to biologics. If the odor is microbial, this stuff is the best I have...

Pre-trip Preparations Without our usual paddling partners, we had immense flexibility in trip timing. My son is homeschooled, so not...

Sometime in the past three years, likely as the result of some Canoecopia presentation or perhaps the River Kings Namekagon video...

On October 5-9, 2025, I paddled various parts of the Pine Barrens prior to the Pine Barrens Functional Freestyle Canoeing Workshop...

In October 2025 in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, open canoes paddle through a canopy tunnel of coloring leaves and then disappear into...

This week on the Namekagon

Wet, lichen covered rocks, are always a hazard for me as well. Shoe soles come in many different configurations, some of which are more...

The thing I like about Mount Hagens is that it doesn't have the usual bitter taste that instant coffee normally had. And I'm not on...

Whenever I am contemplating a new purchase, I check this guy's channel to see if he has a video covering the subject. Whaddya know....