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". . . one small Missouri city has become a hotspot for people looking to float their way through the Ozarks and has taken ownership of two impressive titles. Noel, Missouri has a tagline on the city's website that reads, 'The Christmas city and Canoeing Capital of the Ozarks.'"...

That is a good video. Thanks for posting it. Demonstrating in the air with the canoe on picnic table is a clever idea in addition to the underwater videos Rolf has produced to explain strokes.

Nice set up—structurally, aesthetically and very practically for centralized solo paddling. The only thing about that seat will be, like all bench seats without a softly sloped front edge, it may cut into the back of your thighs or butt when kneeling off it. Of course, kneeling paddlers have...

These guys are said to be going on a Canadian canoe trip trip later this summer. They say they capsized while both doing a "T stroke on one side." The canoe was a 17' Clipper Ranger. PFDs but no bailer.

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This picture may be a first for this thread: Boats on a vehicle on (I assume) a boat.

Wow. Good for him. Maybe the the rapid was very different in the days when I paddled it. I definitely remember entering right of center and aiming for an eddy on the left bank about half way or more down the rapid. Maybe the one just upstream of where your green and blue lines diverge...

I only paddled Zoar Gap in the 80s and early 90s. I recall eddying out at least once and maybe twice in left bank eddies before the final tail of the rapid. One time I paddled tandem in a black Perception Chattooga canoe that Jim Michaud had given to the Connecticut AMC chapter. Jim was the...

I'll be there from Tuesday afternoon (7/15) to Sunday morning. Franklin Hall dorm. I'll probably bring my Keewaydin 15 to try to sneak in a half day paddle somewhere.

I'd go with glass. It will do the trick and new Kevlar won't color match the old, so there will be a noticeable repair there with either fabric. Not if you just want to play with it occasionally. If you want to pretty up the outside, a full paint job may be the best option. It would add...

Lovely equipment and boat content. Could be the site's first tasseled, oriental canoe dog rug.

When I paddled with whitewater clubs there was an expectation that paddlers would disclose any medical condition that could put other paddlers, or the trip as a whole, at risk. A heart condition would be an obvious example because other paddlers would have to risk themselves rescuing and then...

I too think the new logo is not as attractive. Are there smaller words under the "HEMLOCK" on the side?

I suppose the relevance of this topic is whether one should administer mouth-to mouth resuscitation to someone with celiac disease who drowned on a canoe trip. Well, would they prefer a bout of intestinal discomfort or death? Or maybe it's just that on Father's Day (tomorrow) we are thankful...

Yes, whitewater C1s in the Berry/Sweet days were based on slalom C1 designs, optimized for two-dimensional turning and speed. Many of the modern, short, scarab-beetle-shaped C1s are not designed for speed at all, but rather for three-dimensional aerial flips, twists, end-overs—I don't even know...

This video shows some prototype outfitting for a C1 whitewater canoe, including a bench-type seat that pops free and ratchet-tightened thigh straps. A quick release mechanism catapults everything loose so the paddler is not entrapped by the Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions.

That was a nice feature and tribute to Rollin and Jerry. Thanks for posting it, Benson.

I didn't realize until the article linked in the OP that two of the six dams on the Klamath remain in place. Emperor AI tells me that they are needed for flood and agricultural water control, while the four dams that were removed were hydroelectric dams.

Microtus, thanks for taking the time to post the trip report and pictures. I don't think we have many trip reports about the Sylvania Wilderness in Michigan's UP. Whether the trip was good or bad, easy or hard, cold or hot, sunny or rainy, trip reports are always informational, educational and...

Two weeks ago, in the case Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, a unanimous Supreme Court of the United States significantly narrowed the circumstances under which NEPA can be used to block projects having environmental impacts. Without going into the details of...