Woodpuppy

I normally take 2 when solo or 4 in my 3-seat Polaris with two kids. My extra is and isn’t a spare, as I don’t really have duplicates...

Paddle with a carbon double but bring along a cheap plastic brute for boney spots but mostly as a walking stick for rough portages.

I have broken a paddle while pulling upstream in shallow water. That experience scared me into always having a spare along.

I always take 2 when tripping. A carbon bent shaft ZRE as well as a longer straight shaft for whitewater or heavier conditions. I've...

I just carry two ash beavertails wherever I go, that’s all I have besides some old Chestnut Canoe company paddles. I started using my...

On paddling trips I take two paddles (Grey Owl Sugar Island / Grey Owl-Northern Light) and a divisible double paddle. As my Wilma is...

As long as I remember to bring any, there was one time I left the paddles at home, I always have a spare unless I'm testing out a new...

My wife and I were on a local canoe club trip years ago, mid 1980s, I'm sure, on the North Fork of the John Day in Central Oregon. It...

I thought that canoe was loaded on a vehicle behind the Subaru! Til I read 13’ 😁

Wow. That would be hard to witness. The circle of life is brutal.

Maybe it got nabbed as it came to the water's edge for a drink? Or perhaps it was picked up by a hawk or owl and then dropped in the...

This was the smaller of the two that crawled out of the lake & past my dad's cabin the past few springs. Not seen from the canoe but it...

Oooops. Sorry. The turtle. No, he did not catch it but instead quickly exited the water. I've got some incredible photos of these beasts...

Did he manage to catch the snapper? And are we talking the yummy fish, or the ornery turtle?

Rodent version: Drowned rat by Alan, on Flickr Alan