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I've been thinking of options for a canoe-camping trip over Columbus Day weekend, and when I came across this it seemed quite serendipitous. Like it was meant to be. Nothing like an Adirondack trip in the fall (my favorite time to visit) and it would be good to meet some new folks...Robin is...

Excellent! I'm glad you had a good trip! The Demo Road to Moosehead Lake stretch is one of 2 or 3 segments I need to finish the NFCT. You lucked out on Moosehead. I've never seen that lake glassy.

I've been busier than a one legged man in an arse kicking contest since I got back, so this is the first I have a chance to read this thread. It was a good trip, and the water levels were fine except for the very last day. That pocket bellows is the crap! It came in handy not only on the river...

http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bnatr...f/risnakes.pdf I think the last sighting of a Timber Rattler in RI was in the late 1960's. Copperheads have been documented nearby in CT, but never recorded in RI. -rs

Doesn't that mower deck detach and come right out? It is a bit of a pain in the butt on my mower to get it detached (something like 7 C-clips to remove, and then put back) but it only takes maybe 5 minutes, and I can just slide the deck out and have my way with it. Much, much easier to clean...

I use a different cart (the Instep canoe cart with 16 inch bicycle wheels) so your experience may not be the same, but for nearly all terrain except going up the steepest of hills, I find it easier, with better control, to push and/or follow along as the case may be from the rear of the boat...

And even that convention is not reliable. There are three "pitches" on the Rapid River in Maine that are all runnable. You look at it, you make a judgment, and you deal with any consequences. That's about all one can do. Given the condition of Scott's canoe after his tango in Mosquito Rips, I'm...

Well, honestly, just about any freshwater river or lake in the State of RI fits that bill. True, we occasionally see the wandering yearling bear in the spring, none of whom seem to be able to read a road map, but the chances of running into one of the 3 or 4 we might have in the state at any one...

1. Beware the dri-ki trap on Flagstaff Lake...easily visible on aerials, but the NFCT map shows it as water. 2. At the end of Flagstaff, once the portage trail intersects a cart path you can wheel the rest by going left out to the main road, and then right. At the next fork, go left (although...

A surplus of those bungie-ball deeliebob things that came with a new canopy resulted in a whole slew of Eureka moments. They are now used to: 1) secure my folding saw to a thwart; 2) provide multiple tie-down points by inserting them and securing them to slotted gunnels; 3) provide quick way...

I usually just put mine into my large back-pack style Sealline dry bag, without any extra protection. I have a thermarest sleeping pad, and I once immersed it into a pond looking for a leak. It dried out in no time, like 20 minutes in the sun. You could almost towel-dry it if you had to if it...

I'll usually wear my EMS Gore-Tex rain jacket, which has held up really well over the years. I have a back-up Marmot light rain shell if the primary jacket just gets too wet and clammy. If it is really miserable, I'll put on Marmot rain pants over whatever else I am wearing (usually shorts or...

If you don't want to bother with a net bag or some other method to carabiner the sponge to a thwart, it is pretty simple to install a bungy cord un a thwart or next to a seat, and just secure the sponge under the elastic cord. -rs

I already read through this from your Facebook post but, dammit, I couldn't resist burning some work time here reading it again. Thanks, Conk!

Thanks again for the ideas, Mike. I've never really worked at all with any fabric, and intend on picking the brains of both Doug and Mike to get a better idea of what I need. They can clue me in to mystery terms such as "seamed edge tape" and "peel ply". I don't have any Kevlar skid plates on...

Thanks, Mike, You are probably right about the gunnels, and I bet my wife would agree with you, dang her, but I absolutely loathe vinyl gunnels. I'd feel like I was killing off the spirit of the canoe. It makes no sense, and I'm usually the most practical guy in any room, but there you have...

If I didn't already have one, I'd consider making an offer. But the one I have is still in pretty good shape. The brightwork needs some attention (I'm horrible with the upkeep of woodwork, and I see at least some new gunnels in my future, probably in the next five years or so), and I'll...

I've never canceled a multi-day trip due to weather forecast, but I usually have padded the schedule a bit so that we can take a day or two off during the trip and still make our mileage if needed to avoid mad windy lakes or torrential downpours. We've only actually done so a couple times...

Yeah, I'd be willing to bet Baker is still iced in. There is a youtube video of this year's ice-out...really good aerial views from a drone of moving ice. So not really "ice-out", I suppose, but at least it is moving and the ice jams are clearing up. And they claimed in the written...

I'll be with a group to the St. John in Maine this May. Ice-out was around April 10th, but there is still plenty of snow still to melt in the watershed, so we'll be canoeing on liquid ice, essentially. It can sometimes hit the 70's or 80's in Maine in May, but we'll all be wearing either...