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Right on. Right on. I'll let you go with the SKY BLUE / Turquoise Old Town (what color IS that?) if, and only if, you flip that thing over so it rides on the gunnels and doesn't collect rainwater when you're driving toward the Arctic Circle to paddle your next river. Cooper we can live with...

Nicely done (except for the doggy cam, which was too wobbly for me). I'm still in the initial stages with my GoPro device as well: trying to find all the possible mounts and perspectives that might be interesting to record. And then, most of the time I think I'm turning it on when I'm turning it...

Alan Gage I-10 it is! Probably not a lot of time for side excursions on the way, but the return trip will be a more leisurely affair and I'll keep Bowie in mind. It's actually all dependent on my father, who is riding out there with me. He's a retired speech professor who loves to travel and...

Nicely done. If you paddle anything like I do, you'll be repairing the boat before you have to repair the bags...

Ya. I'm pretty stoked. It feels like the story is funneling toward some big dramatic point. And hopefully not the Ledge Hole in Lava or big nasty in Crystal. Muskrat thanks for the backyard offer. I'll keep it in mind, though we're coming up through Phoenix for a stop at my sister's so...

So L-burg's finest stumbled over my boat last week while investigating a murder over in the rough section of town. I was sitting on my favorite stool at the local Irish pub when I got a picture from the detective of a blue boat half-buried in some brush. "It says B. Holmstom on the side." he...

And don't rule out shorter! Though again, so much depends upon the red wheelbarrow and the white chickens... And but so take what I say with fistfuls of salt. I'm still young enough next to these old geezers (mid-forties) to enjoy canoe-tripping on both flat and white, so I currently take...

AND then. For those interested. A brief film by Amos Burg which attempts to chronicle B. Homstrom's second float down the Colorado. He was never very happy with the fifteen minutes of fame that resulted from the film.

Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom. He did the thing.

Thanks for the reminder. These tales are something I need to hear from time to time. Just when you get comfortable and start leaving things behind for the quick paddle on your backyard run... Glad it turned out well for you.

On withstanding a hell-a-wind in a mind-numblingly complex tent: Of primary import when setting an expedition tent up for gale-force winds is the external and internal guy system. The trick is to guy the fly outwards as often and as taut as possible (probably 3 points of attachment per side for...

Indeed! Henry James once suggested: “How do I know what I think until I’ve written it down?” I should probably also here admit that I have great admiration for an odd little man named Richard Hugo, who once upon a time lived in the Pacific Northwest, worked for Boeing Company, and put English...

Yes, my son and I hiked around in it last year and I've been thinking about that river ever since. And don't let the trip fool you. I actually do not have much daring left and my skillz are pretty abysmal. But there's only about 26 miles of whitewater. And but a self-support solo canoe trip...

Ladore Canyon is the closet I've come to a desert river. It was pretty desert-y, in terms of the introduction to sand, but I am looking forward to getting a full and proper introduction. I suppose if the desert river has water in it you're doing pretty good. Our trip through Ladore they required...

I've never been much of a tarp guy. Not for a primary sleeping shelter, anyway. I mean, sure, string one up to sit under, play banjo under, eat supper under, but when the snow falls and the temperature drops or the creatures slither up from the soil or the skies open up I like the security of a...

Good stuff, Alan. I'm intrigued by the selfies of the first and last installments: two different people, from the looks of them. And why would that be? Your style has an easy readability, a kind of simple straightforward momentum with simple sentences that show a care and attention to detail...

My house was built a number of years ago, like 152 years ago, and sometimes it feels like it’s falling down around me, like it’s finally moved somehow into the autumn of its existence. I’ve got two hundred projects I’m not doing, and I’m really not one for yard work or gutter maintenance, which...

I usually buy cheap arse cars that double as paddle and boat racks, but you's guys have lots more paddles and boats than I do. Since my daughter moved out I do now have a sort of gear room, to hang drysuits and PFDs, and I do keep a couple extra paddles stacked in the corner.

This site is one of the few places I can go on the web and not be absolutely overrun with adds and banners and sidebars and pop-ups. Thanks for keeping it clean.

Despite that Mr. MacGrady's adjectives (and adjectival phrase) do in fact accurately describe many aquatic environs, and lest We of the Single Blade lose all hope for any rising generation of great canoeists, I shall point your SINGULAR attention now to one of KAYAK SESSION'S 2016's short film...