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Well, things changed in a few weeks. Not long ago, I shared with you my deeply personal decision to retire and to close Rutabaga...

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Small project that should prove useful for my most common paddling partner. My dad's not really a paddler, but he's always been a good...

It's certainly an acquired taste. Luckily, my mentors instilled the crack-of-noon paddling discipline into me in my formative years, so...

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Day One Four o'clock did indeed come quickly. I grabbed what I thought would be the last hot shower for the next 8 days and roused the...

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...