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GladMax, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running...

Not in camp, but at home my mother used to make little pizzas with English muffins. Very nostalgic for me. Looks very good. Naan bread (India Indian) is very pillowy and tasty.

Does this happen? Where? And what kind of species? It certainly seems possible. What prompted my interest was THIS ARTICLE on the golden mussels danger to Lake Tahoe. "Last weekend, watercraft inspectors found golden mussels, a highly invasive aquatic species, on a 45-foot boat that was headed...

Pizza is one of my favorite foods, and seemingly a simple one, but I've never seen anyone make it in camp. This article . . . https://paddlingmag.com/skills/how-to-bake-backcountry-pizza/ . . . claims that "[d]one poorly, campfire pizza will have uncooked toppings and half-melted cheese on a...

Hudson's Bay Company, which was North America's oldest company and once owned one-third of Canada, has closed all its stores and shut down. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/2025/06/01/remembering-the-bay Of course, HBC was intimately involved with the spread of canoeing in Canada...

I agree that a wide seat will be more comfortable for paddling heeled, Canadian style, as you say you intend to. Ed's and Essex Industries make wide cane and webbed seats for sale, and you can probably contact them to get an idea of weights. If you want a wide, lightweight, aesthetic and very...

Financial grants, typically around $500, are available from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) "to assist with the funding of activities by individuals or institutions whose efforts are consistent with the mission of WCHA—preserving, studying, building, restoring wooden canoes, and...

I doubt Mad River made any special hull for Orvis. They may have licensed Orvis to put its name on one of the Mad River hulls. The Mad River Winooski was 14' long and 39" max beam. It was sold as a tandem. In the 1989 Canoe Magazine Buyer's Guide, the Winooski is listed as being manufactured...

Two gigantic rivers. I read today: There is disagreement as to whether the Amazon or Nile is the longest river system in the world. The Amazon has the greatest drainage area in the world and has by far the greatest water discharge. The Congo has an almost unbelievable maximum depth of 720...

Finally, here are the C2 Class A Finals for the women's 200 meter and 500 meter and the men's 500 meter races. The USA and Canada have entrants in both women's races. Note that a few of the C2 teams paddle on the same side of the canoe. Note also that every paddler uses carbon paddles with...

Lauren, welcome to the site. You will get more interest if you post pictures publicly right in this thread, so everyone can see them. It's easy. For each picture, just click the Insert Image icon (looks like a mountain) to upload the picture from your computer or phone. More detailed info on...

That chart makes no sense to me when, for example, comparing the Traveler to the shorter, lighter and more rockered Flashfire. The chart says for two-week expeditions the Traveler is only Good while the Flash is Better, whereas for shorter one-week trips in the BWCA the chart says the Traveler...

Here's a newspaper report from 2006 on killing of the snorkeler exactly where I remembered. I used to eddy out at the confluence of Sweetwater and Juniper Springs, and then paddle up Sweetwater to the rental cabin, which I explored. The next time I was there, the entrance to Sweetwater Springs...

Mitscan1, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account...

This post will feature the women's C1 Class A finals in the 200 meter, 500 meter and 5000 meter races. Here's the 200 meter final, which includes two Canadians in the field, Katie Vincent (the 2024 Olympic champion at this distance, 3rd lane from bottom) and Sophia Jensen: Here's the 500...

Here's another alligator attack on paddlers in Florida, which resulted in the temporary closure of one of my top 10 lifetime paddling spots, Juniper Springs, which has a very active canoe rental concession. I recall about 15 years ago that a gator in Juniper Springs killed a swimmer or snorkeler...

Work? Those guys only paddle for 40 seconds. Such wimps!

Don't know about the pullover, but I had Patagonia baggies shorts in the mid-1980s. I no longer have them, but I do have many paddles and other canoe gear (and canoes) from the early 80s. My oldest canoe is my 1980 Mad River Royalex Explorer, seen here with my daughter in Maine in the...

Actually, your J stroke looks very automatic and effective to me. How would I know that? I was looking on your YouTube channel for the self-rescue video you've posted here a few times, and noticed you had several other videos. So, I watched one of you and Sadie paddling your local river. I...

Having just learned about all these Android features just three days ago, I hesitate out of my ignorance to venture any more answers about them. I'm sure they all can easily be researched. Or perhaps someone else here already knows for Android phones.