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So the air stays pretty wet here in the Virginias and my sleeping bags of choice are typically synthetic. I love the weight and compactability of down, but I often wake up in the deciduous rain forests of West Virginia soaked, and down loses most of its appeal when soaked. But so I've needed a...

That is a fantastic photo. Right place right time.

I've used the Water Tennie for a few years and simply prefer the low cut design of the Eddy for kneeling. I can't kneel comfortably in high tops. But both shoes have 5.10 rubber. And that's the schnizzle. I got my Eddys direct from 5.10 about 3 weeks ago. Maybe I bought the last pair😶, for which...

Back in the later 90s (I suppose back when many on this forum were retiring), a company called 5.10—maker of sticky rubber climbing shoes since the mid-80’s—developed a low profile water shoe, kind of a mesh sock that buckled to your foot and held as its sole that secret indian rubber stuff for...

I'm pretty monogamous with my boat of choice at any particular time. Meaning, I guess, that I can't successfully jump from boat to boat and expect a far reaching relationship. Or maybe I can't learn a boat well without devoting myself exclusively to the vagaries of her lines within (and...

I typically leave my Jeep wherever, generally with the key in the ignition, generally with thousands of dollars worth of molding gear fogging up the windows. But then, from in front of my house (I live in a small city), my entire Jeep was stolen, with boat and gear attached/inside. I did get the...

Jim: It's been an interesting week. Boat was on my Jeep where it stays quite a bit. Probably too much. (I often run to the river for lunch and do a quick loop up around an island downtown. Especially in the summer. Or I've got a downtown 10-miler I do after work when I have later light and the...

Canoo Peeple: My Esquif Vertige X was stolen from Lynchburg, VA last week. It's a blue boat with all stickers removed. (No esquif logo or factory pinstriping remains. It's all scraped clean.) It's a blue boat with about 900 gentleel-ish miles on it. I mean, it ain't beat to hell but it's...

Ahhh. The separate constellations are for messaging and voice options ONLY. That explains why Iridium can have 100 satellites up there while GPS is sputtering with 26. Gotcha. Thanks.

Bothwell you sound like you might do some surveying! The SPOT receivers use a different constellation altogether, known as GLOBALstar, and do not pick up signals from GPS, GLONASS, or GALILEO. But yes, many handheld receivers are now receiving signals from GLONASS as well as GPS, and high end...

As much as I am loath to admit to the underlying idea, capitalistic economies are not driven by altruistic tendencies. They are driven by profit. (Which is in turn driven by the need to maintain investments, or a position in the "capitalist class," or simply the drive to survive, however you...

Sand. It works its way into everything. Gear bags. Boats. Clothes. Food. Gaskets (yikes!). But still. Nice to sleep on. Nice to dig your feet into from a low chair overlooking the river. And once you get used to the sort of gritty texture of your sandwich its not too bad, really. If you're...

Whoops. Sorry. I tend to click private whenever I see the word.

Slightly off-topic in terms of tandem roles but I don't do tandem. So there. I do, however, paddle a tandem boat solo. And it's FANTASTIC, albeit a little wide for a lot of cross-stroking. I can camp out of it for many days (I'm planning 16-18 in January 2017, by the by) and can still move it...

Water. Bags. My number one rule is that if I take it on the river, it will eventually get wet. I suppose that in the end, there is nothing outside of human skin that water will not eventually penetrate. Water will find its sneaky little way in to the best laid plans of mice and men. But my...

Pretty awesome. Kind of reminds me of the ICEMULE. I appreciate the stealth aspect, especially with more and more individual government entities creating their own rules about what you can and can't have while taking out at the "public" boat ramp. Or what can and can't be in your possession in...

I print my own maps as well, using the revisited 2013 USGS quads as base maps and then culling from as many sources as possible (including other maps, of course) to create a fairly comprehensive "guide" to wherever it is I'm going. I pull in free shape files downloaded from...

Wow. Awesome find, Robin. One of these years I will be ready to actually paddle such a boat. Until then, I continue to pretend.

So like yeah. People: NoDrama: No dry ice. The gases will explode something. (The cooler is air tight.) Unless I guess you regularly release the gas. Check their recommendations. Yeti has suggestions concerning dry ice. Like: DON'T use in soft shells. DISCLAIMER: If you really want to keep ice...

One handcarved Italian spoon in each hand, a satchel full of Nietzsche, and Alan charging through the whoopty hoopla like a boss! My vote.