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My usual winter time allotment to be spent on my indoor Paddlesports Concept2 machine has been overtaken in this 1960's remembrance style winter is being spent on roof rakes and snowblower. My GPS says that I walk a bit over 2 miles while literally wrestling with my 24" snowblower on my lakeside...

it is not a pack seat. it is a rail mount, able to slide fore and aft for trim (though actively not while seated). Joe made a few of them for racing, which he also uses on his own boat. It also has a slight degreee of forward tilt which is better for race paddling. He mounted an extra block...

I am very rarely a kneeling paddler. I train and race sitting using a single blade bent carbon paddle, or trip/recreate with a version of a straight wood otter tail. I prefer to have an elevated seat for ease and efficiently of single side paddling. For the previous three solo canoes i bought...

It's not a rower, it is a paddler. I first saw a dozen of these machines on display at the US Nationals canoeing in Syracuse a few short years ago. Half were set up for canoe paddlers, half were set up for kayak paddlers, with completely different attachment sysems connected to the base...

I don't know about any such Ezpass experience, since I tend to avoid or rarely travel where such is necessary. But I do know that with a carbon canoe overhead that satellite radio signal has a difficult time punching through to the roof mounted antenna. Not had any problem with wood or kevlar...

Yeah, but when FB started it was all about what so-and-so had for breakfast this morning, and how cute her puppy dog is, seeking commentary from anyone and everyone who would sign in to read. I think this forum and a very few others like it are an entirely different category of critically...

I was amazed and shocked over the years at how much many of the merit badges and other requirements were dumbed down from what was once required. During my short time as a young scout, I had to learn and be tested in Morse Code to make it to First Class rank. Nothing llike that any more.

I spent a very few short years in scouts as a kid, until my rural small town troop disbanded when the scoutmaster quit and no one else was willing to step up to the task. Many years later when my son entered Cubs, my wife volunteered as den mother. When my son advanced to Boy Scouts I became...

This has been an unusually cold and snowy winter so far here in north central NY State, on the western edge of the Adirondacks. I have a simple one room hunting camp that I inherited from my dad. It is in the highest snowfall area east of the Rock Mountains, directly in the path of the highest...

I would look foward to a demo day in the Adirondacks this seasson. The last time Bill had a demo in Saranac Lake, I ended up with a new Cruiser. After having purchsed no less than three new carbon canoes over the past two years, please nobody tell my wife that I just viewed Bill's new Cirrus...

Nehasane Forest Lodge on Adirondack Lake Lila when I was there some time before 1979 when it was razed by the state because the land it was on became a designated wilderness where no man made strructures were allowed. Not knowing that, my wife wanted to visit the "Great Camp" the next season...

A trip I have wanted to repeat for more than 60 years is to repeat a trip I made with my father and mother in my tathere's then International 4x4 Scout. I was probably only 8 or 10 years old at most. We drove north from Ottawa through Senneterre on what was then only a dirt road all the way...

So my sad story turned out to be a good one. I have had a first generation Placidboat RapidFire (with relatively heavy wood gunwales compared to the later "cobra sox" gunwales) that I bought from Joe Moore new quite a few years ago. Not sure how long it took to build since I ordered the color...

Well take heart, today, our buddy "Phil" has prognosticated that we still have to wait out six more weeks of winter before spring "officially" arrives. A check of the calendar shows there are just six and a half more calendar weeks until the first day of spring. Who would have thunk it, on this...

Amen. I grew up not far from the Adirondacks on a good size slow moving river where I did not get into canoeing as much as with a tiny Jon boat for rowing and fishing before I later got a small motor. I bought my first canoe (light thin skin 17' Grumman which I still own) while in the Air...

When I was making a lot of solo bushwhack wilderness trips, I would leave a written semi-itinerary, although I often modified some of my destinations and routes in real time. The DEC forest rangers would know where to look for me from my baseline route. Often when on a multti-day trip I would...

Regardless of where you roam, wilderness or not, as a minimum you will always see numerous commercial airliners in clear skies overhead leaving streaks of contrails during the day and flashing lights at night. And they are not completly silent either. There is no escape.

Choppers are most likely from Army Fort Drum, on the northwestern edge of the Adirondacks, east of Watertown. F35s are from Air Force Vermont National Guard. Previously A-10 tank killers could be seen training usually in pairs flying low level over the high peaks and through the valleys...

i have always sought solitude in places where I see no one for many days. Very near my home are many state forests and wilderness areas of the Adirondacks. For my pleasure, since I was much younger, I have gone into the wild areas portaging between ponds with a lightweight canoe, such as a...

Here's what I am dealing with tomorrow, very typical for here ever since I was a kid. at least they are measuring it in inches. A couple of weeks ago the warning was for 3-4 feet. This latest snowfall will be on top of that which is already here from before. Lake Effect Snow Warning URGENT -...