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Tsuga8, I think lots of lessons can be learned from this, though, of course, those lessons won't reach the vast majority of the folks who need them. Wind options vary a lot. Staying near the shore may not always be enough. I haven't paddled enough on Shoshone Lake (5 days) to know it much at...

My wife and I did this same trip on Lewis and Shoshone Lakes back in late August and early September of 2016 after doing a Yellowstone Lake SE arm trip just before it. I can attest to the wind problem. We ended up camping with a young couple one night at one of the sites near the Moose Creek...

Or put those bottles you're trying to cool the hot water in back in the original (cool) water they came from, lake or stream, that big heat sink. Properly leashed, of course.

No Skodas here (that I know of), but I remember when I first started canoeing in the Chicago area and after joining the canoe club there, if any member saw a vehicle with a canoe on the roof, they knew who it was. This was 1965, greater Chicago area population about 6.5 million at the time...

alsg, It is counterintuitive, but it's all in nuances of boat lean and how far from the boat those onside strokes are done. Set the circle going with the offside stroke or two and correct boat lean, and then switch to onside strokes close to the boat, and when needed -- just every once in a...

I was 22 when I got my first canoe, which I bought outright, brand new. I started canoeing earlier, but borrowed or rented boats before getting my own. I wanted to do a long canoe trip after graduating from college, so ordered a custom fiberglass one from a builder in Chicago shortly before I...

Chip, I've seen a canoe like that before, but not sure of the brand name. Try Lakefield, which was located in Ontario somewhere, likely now long defunct? (sort of like the canoe)

Thanks for these, Glenn. I attended a weekend seminar taught by Tom I think back in the early 1990s. One thing I remember about it was after the first day on the water I was so sore from doing moves I was unaccustomed to that I couldn't sleep much that night. Part of that was my arthritis, but...

And have a spare speaker (from Piragis) ready for when the one broadcasting is smashed to pieces with a canoe paddle? < Another Huge Grin >

Chip, I've been in both Moore's and Kraus Hotsprings on the Nahanni run, which weren't real clear either time we were there (I've done the Nahanni twice). Kraus's water was clearer as the river comes up fairly regularly and flushes the riverside pools out, but there was lots of algae in it...

My last Grand Canyon trip was 2002, and that was before the release of the beetle as far as I know (around 2010? I'd have to look). On the Green it's a tammie reduction, not an elimination. My guess would be that in Canyonlands, it's down to half or less of what was there 15 years ago. Still...

There's basically no gradient on the lower Green. If I remember right, I think all the way from Green River town up at the I-70 bridge down to the Colorado River Confluence, it's only about a foot a mile, foot and a half at the most. That's basically because continual slippage (over geologic...

Regular isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol - "rubbing" implies elbow grease?) works on Douglas fir pitch, which I assume is similar enough to pine pitch and should be harmless to resins used in composite boat hulls. Good luck. I mainly use it on my hands after cutting firewood (we heat our...

Hey, Glenn, do "soft" decks count in the "no decks" rule? (I'm joking here). Gotta keep warm somehow when paddling north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

The first book of Patterson's I ever ran across was Finlay's River, which I checked out of the library when I was in college. It was the only title of his they had if I remember correctly. I ran across Dangerous River much later, and as a matter of fact have run the Nahanni twice now. I ran...

I'll have to see if I can find a copy of Davis's treatise. I didn't know about it. Thanks for mentioning. I know that Ray had help getting up to Virginia Falls and above. He describes getting up as far as Rabbit Kettle Lake, mostly through his thinly disguised handling of the location of Hole...

In another thread I mentioned the works of R. M. Patterson, most famous as the author of his adventures and exploration on the Nahanni River in 1927, which I'm sure many members here know of. I did a cursory search for his name here on CanoeTripping.net and turned up very little, though I could...

Most members here would know of R.M. (Raymond Murray) Patterson who wrote "The Dangerous River" about his adventures in the Nahanni Country. Some may not be familiar with his other writings. He's not really an "instructive" writer in that he's offering advice for canoeing, though he does...

Rubby, Probably vinylester, almost certainly not epoxy. Still, I'd use epoxy for any actual repairs needed as it usually adheres better to other resin systems. Not everyone may agree. I don't know for sure which it used, just a gut feeling. Someone else may know for sure.