yixak

It's interesting how things fit together. As I mentioned in another thread last spring, although I've been paddling off and on for...

Thank you Dana. Tomorrow. I made her, for me, what I wanted, but always in mind that she'd be for sale. A trophy for the den of a...

PNW Stowaway

I was all-in on avoiding staples on my first strip canoe but words written by Nick Schade resonate with me: "A wooden boat will suck up...

Dam beavers... They've been busy, blocking this tunnel between the first or upstream lake where our cabin is and the lower lakes of...

By Daniel Pike (Facebook post) We were trapped in the wildfires in the Wabakimi area. This is what happened. Our party of 6...

Here is the one from the time I made the cover of the Copper River Journal.

yixak, Just had lunch with a good friend from Fairbanks. He is showing a slide show of his ascent of Denali in 1970. 32 days on the...

I hadn't planned to go to the BW this year, but when my favorite nephew David and his friend Eric invited me along - how could I say no...

As a former aerodynamic loads engineer, one canoe on a roof can be quite aerodynamic (it does depend on the shape of the vehicle), but 2...

My little Ford Connect van takes a fuel economy hit when there’s a boat racked. Many factors at play, particularly air temps, so it’s...

Doesn't matter where you are. In my experience as soon as the clothes come off a canoe rounds the corner. At least that's how it always...

I made the cover of the Copper River Journal with a canoe on the Gulkana River back in the mid 90s. But you are right, it doesn't happen...

Not every day does the local paper picture a canoe above the fold.

That looks like a much better canoe trailer that what I tried last summer. The fellow at the local bike shop said, "I used to work in...