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I don't carry myself and I can't remember ever feeling threatened. To me the attitude Knees illustrates is similar to one described in a juvenile novel by SF writer Robert Heinlein (I think his mid 1950s "Tunnel in the Sky"). In it a student about to graduate high school in the future has the...

The Buffalo River in Arkansas, 1973 (Easter Weekend) My immediate family had set up a sort of mini-reunion with parents and some of the kids. Not all would be there. It was finalized that I would be coming down to Missouri (south central, near Springfield, where my parents lived with my...

Some nice pics of your own, too, @eckilson. Thanks for contributing. Looks like there could be some (almost?) oops moments there.

From what I remember of your trip reports, it seems you seldom paddled where there was any wood to burn.

I've built campfires in the past, some even relatively recently, like 2015. Almost all the recent ones were small just to rid of us of extra paper and garbage on trips and over quickly, not for warming or gazing or chatting around. Heck, just a few weeks ago I had a huge fire going for two days...

Thanks. That lightish wind, no matter where I stand, turns my body into a rock in the stream that makes an eddy and draws the smoke toward me. Can't avoid it. I don't want to smell like smoke so I usually just stay way away from fires if at all possible, especially as I (and the ones I'm with)...

My problem was that it never seemed to be "just a little." Maybe woodstove skills are different than campfire skills?

Does "west" stop at the Canadian border? I see to have been rained on more than a few times on summer trips up there (usually late summer). I'm just joking with you. Otherwise, it usually does happen as you say here in OR, and it's worse east of the Cascade Mountains. And to keep it more on...

NV likely has lots of decent weather. Where I have often paddled never seems to.

That's correct, as I allude to in my post above. It could be especially effective in an upstream wind, also noted above. The trouble is, if there's very little breeze, it's very easy to paddle faster than the current as the canoe is already going almost current speed. It doesn't take much effort...

The BLM logged off some of their property about a half mile upwind of us earlier and are burning slash piles today. It really stinks outside right now. So bad that, though I need some firewood for the stove for the week of rain forecast to start tonight, I'm debating on whether to get it right...

Gamma, I think you can get smoke smell in an aerosol spray can for when you miss it too much and can't get on a trip for a campfire. Spray your clothes down and never have to go without! < grin > To each his own. We heat our house with a woodstove, so smoke smell is around our place a lot...

May not be as new as I think. We've been in smaller groups lately, though see it when camped with other groups, and it's only been lately. We've been doing a lot of desert paddling in the last 15 or so years, and that terrain isn't conducive to hammock use. I've seen exactly one on the Green in...

It's been somewhat a problem in some of the campsites we've shared on a few river trips as well as on the Bowron Chain in BC a few years back. I'm sure it's gonna get worse. Will campgrounds rebel? Most have a number of tents limit per site already, I think. Ain't any such thing out in the...

I personally dislike campfires. They take time in the morning when we want to get on the water, and they stink up gear, mainly clothing and tents. We do have fires when it's cold, or small ones to burn paper and burnable garbage, de-smell food cans, those sorts of things, but they're uncommon...

Boy'ndogs, Not trying to belittle your idea with my previous post, but I seem to remember seeing it proposed before. Maybe it was on another site? Not sure. Anyway, it wouldn't work in most of the rivers I've paddled, which are mainly small, some of them tending to meander some. I could see it...

Alan! Just make it twice as big! < Huge GRIN >

I'm likely not going to be as helpful here as I'd hoped to be with usable info on the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande. Looking through gauges and stages, etc., across a few years doesn't suggest a season as truly reliable to me. duNord also indicated essentially the same in his note above...

Because it's desert doesn't mean little or nothing grows there. In fact, if there's water, chances are there is profuse vegetation in any soil that allows plant growth in it. Thick and impenetrable is the usual description of it. The Green and Colorado are good examples. Another is the Rio Grande.

Desert Sports, the outfitter we used for a shuttle, does guided trips there. I was capable of doing it myself so wasn't interested in paying guides, still am not. Reliable season looks to be late fall into winter, but it can be easy to get into high water, too. Knowing weather generalities...