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High 78° low 50° 5mph wind on launch day :- )

Yellowcanoe there's a Mexican Hat to Sand Island launch available 5/11 right now. Thats a nice canyon run with some good off river hiking. Call Jim at 435-672-2455 for your shuttle and leave a message, cell service over there is poor. Another problem solved :- )

Meet me at Montezuma Creek, UT 4/7 in the AM with your canoe rigged for Class III and chowed up for 13 days. I'll call Silas at the BLM river office and have him add you to my permit. He'll say 'right on bro' because we've done the Grand Canyon together haha Problem solved :- )

All my rods are 4 piece, just makes life easier :- )

A speed run was done this year and a record set by a guy in a sea kayak. Good story if you haven't already checked it out. Running the GC in a duckie isn't on my short list haha if I had that in mind I'd do it in a Dagger Katana 10.4 or another crossover kayak. The SOAR inflatable canoes are...

Well played sir :- ) It GC tradition for some to name the boat in reference to the first rapid it gets flipped haha Last trip a crew flipped right below 'Indian Dick' rock, a large phallus shaped formation haha The rapid is a no-namer in the guide books, but has some big laterals bouncing...

You must have me confused with some other guy, that's just crazy talk haha Next thing you'll do is is bring up how many beers it takes to the put in from last ice with factored in 'rigging beers' for the launch party haha Then it's river temp beer for the next two or three weeks :- ) All...

First thought about the high kneel pic is, he must really know how to pack light :- ) The second thought is he reminds me of me.....in my other life. I was a post Desert Storm USMC Rifleman. I shot on the Marine Corp rifle team for years, where we spent all out efforts and focused all our...

I've read 'Canoing With The Cree' several times first time in the 70's. While it's a good book I've always thought thier river tripping skills were pretty sketchy haha As far as tandems and double paddles go, my wife and I had an 'Easy Rider' for quite a few years and yak paddled it for awhile...

My favorite general purpose outfit is a 9ft, 6wt Sage rod and a wide arbor Ross reel. I have a 8.5ft 5wt Sage and standard arbor Ross reel. I tried a 4wt outfit awhile, but didn't stick with it. I'm not picky, I fish wet and dry, work streamers, popped bugs. My favorite fishing are the big...

Oh yea, we raised our family in Sheridan WY and later moved to Bozeman MT. I was taught fly fishing very young by dad, uncles and grandparents. Floated all over with a driftboat and waded creeks and fished highcountry lakes. Haven't wetted a line in in 5 years since buying land in AZ, thats...

Good to have you Paul :- )

That looks good Mike. You mentioned Belknaps maps in another thread and I wasn't sure what what maps you were talking about . Now I do :- )

In MT it was PBR in the SW more than likely it will be Tecate. Savy trippers all know that Tecate cans are thicker and thus more durable than domestic cans and don't get pin holes in them by week two all dumped loose in a drop bag haha by then you can't hardly read the cans anyway because the...

My wife and I have done a lot of mixed boat trips on big water with pretty much complete strangers. What I have to say about this discussion is that: "There's no disgrace in any job well done" Young white water kayakers always crack my wife and I up on trips :- ) Ah to be 20ish again haha...

I didn't notice till I looked at the picture, but my little basket of knives are all different but the same haha I have given away a bunch of the Mora Companions :- ) Before they were popular Sportsman Guide sold them as military surplus 'Swedish Hospital Knives' they were something like $24.95...

We use some some kind of lens cleaner on the Go-Pro that also reduces water spotting and I was planning on using that with the AW130 and I will pack a small cleaning kit. I'm not really a photography enthusiast and pretty much bought this camera on ruggedness ,ease of use, internet reviews and...

It's all about the rio to me, I've owned and operated whitewater kayak's, whitewater canoes, a flat water canoe, a couple fishing drift boats, an original Briggs whitewater dory and 16' and 18' foot catarafts and if I lived near big open water I'd definitely own a sexy sea kayak and do coastal...

In the SW we're all brothers and sisters on the rio and there's tolerance in my heart for the SUP drivers :- )

I think you might be overstating things a bit :- )