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Dang, I forgot about all of those thousand mile races. I stand corrected.

You can make up for the wax by taking more steroids, if that .05 mph is all that important.

Ottertail or beavertail. I make my own. I have a BB Expedition, but that is my rock and ice paddle, definitely not as nice to use as the long blade traditionals.

Rock stacks.

Okay, the guy is a great whitewater paddler. It's still a stupid pointless stunt. "Jackass" for paddlers.

Sounds like the Umpquah.

Spotted four Ruddy Ducks in the Mattabesset River near Middletown, CT. We're at the very northern tip of their migration territory. First time that I've seen them in the wild. Nov. 23, 2022

Hudsonian Godwit that I spotted Oct. 31, in the Wheeler Marsh, coastal Connecticut. Not a great photo, but a seldom seen bird. It's a long migrator - nests on Hudson Bay and Arctic coast, winters in Argentina

Why? Time spent on twitter is deducted from your life.

We missed paddling this lake, but only by 15,000 years. If anyone is a geology freak, I recommend looking into the Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington. Nick Zenter from Central Washington University does some great lectures available on youtube. Lake Missoula was over 2000 ft deep and...

I let my gunwales get scratched. It's a canoe and if I worry about what it looks like, it might as well not be a canoe.

I have learned from solo travel that I will always feel out of sorts for the first couple days. After that, I'm pretty well adjusted to being alone. If you keep a clean camp, you're biggest danger is when you are moving. Solo travel means paying attention to what you are doing.

I kneel about 2/3 of the time, but especially when I need power or I am in waves or moving water. I kneel on 1/2 inch closed cell foam pads that are glued in. Like Glen said, shoe choice is important - a flexible enough sole/upper that still gives some wading/portage support. My seats are tipped...

My first thought on all of this was someone needing a carabiner to pull a deadfall out of the way and getting hit in the face by a cheap broken junk piece of aluminum. spend the extra $3

I think that 1,009 will be enough.

barf... I always wanted a canoe that required a mallet.

If you buy good carabiners, then you have carabiners for any situation.

Yeah, I remember fondly a soggy down sleeping bag on an Alaskan glacier. It only took 5 days to dry out... it was a -20F bag, when dry. You're right, I never let that happen again.

Aluminum rental canoes used to figure large in drownings - like 60-70%. And here, when they say "kayaks" you can bet that those boats are cheap flatwater rec boats. They should really differentiate between whitewater and sea kayaks, and the ten foot long drag-it-across-the-parking-lot boats. Of...