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Interesting boat and sounds like a fun project. I'll be interested to see it come to fruition. Are you thinking strip or composite...

The videos are insane. The scour line is over two hundred feet high in some places.

Know what's happening upstream indeed. A friend of mine was walking along one of our smaller rivers hunting birds with a buddy. It was...

I organized a White Water Rescue course for my students this year with Boreal River Rescue. A very good course, one of the best I have...

I used a 4-season Hilleberg Keron 3 on the combined Noatak/Colville. It's pretty when big traveling solo and bombproof. With no portages...

Crossing into CA has never been an issue for me. They ask, I say, no, no, no, no, no. They say, have a nice time. I drive away. On the...

LaVerendrye, Qc. August 2026

I was in my canoe on the river between Long Lake and Tully Reservoir in Royalston, Massachusetts, yesterday when I stopped among the...

Today I had company on my paddle.

A gray day after the rain passed, but so quiet and still that paddling was a joy, I stayed out for a couple of hours just paddling in...

My post has been corrected, 9:35 was when I turned on my GPS, My first paddle stroke was at 10:18 (you no doubt left a couple of minutes...

Thursday July 16 - Part 2 My new sleeping pad is very comfy and about 4" tall. So when my hand slipped off the side it made an actual...

This is a timely post for me because I made a run yesterday that should have been a 3 hr easy trip and turned into a 7+ hr ordeal with...

Wednesday July 15 (Day 3) Since my tent was just a pile of soaking wet fabric as a result of it's launch into the river last night I...

A good question. The Westward tent is brand new, the store didn't have one, they seemed to be on some sort of back order, and there...