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I was very impressed with your solo expedition and my wife was totally blown away! She strongly discourages me from even much more modest solo trips. Thanks for all the effort you put in to document, photograph and write up the trip. Hope you can continue to enjoy canoe trips as a septuagenarian.

I enjoyed your report and was surprised to learn that there is an area of Germany with such a concentration of lakes and rivers to enable a trip like yours. It looks more like Finland. Great photos also. Thank you for posting.

Thanks Goonstroke for that interesting story. I have wondered for years how waterways come to be designated as “rivers” or “creeks”. Tiny streams which often wouldn’t even be named where I grew up back east are labeled as “rivers” in Utah. It appears that Salmon Falls Creek in Nevada is...

Thanks Glen- you are correct, the put-in is at the intersection of the river and the highway below the “e”. I can’t believe that I have lived here for over 30 years and had no idea that Salmon Falls Creek existed. I would have run it many times if only I had known! The scale of the map...

Hey Bob- glad to see that you and Jack made it up to Three Forks and that you liked the performance of the Loon in moving water. Your trip will be an inspiration to many of us here. It was a pleasure meeting you and your pup- good luck and enjoy the preparation for the journey. Have you...

Until recently, I wasn’t aware of any canoeable rivers in next door Nevada, other than the Colorado below Hoover Dam. However, my friend Jason found references to one within a four hour drive. Two weeks later we loaded four solo canoes on my Tundra and Jason’s 4 Runner and headed west from Park...

As far as I know, all Royalex Mad River with wood gunwhales have the Royalex edge exposed. This photo is of a 1982 Explorer which we rescued two years ago. The foam was kind of degraded in spots, similar to what you described. It darkens from multiple coats of Watco Teak oil over time. My...

Enjoyed the photos. Do you know what model of Mad River was being poled?

I’ve had Redbone Hounds before. Great dogs-I miss mine. Thx for the story and photo!

I have a 1988 Kevlar Malecite- same color- which I bought and rescued a couple of years ago. It had worse spider cracks than yours at several places along the hull. It looked like the prior owner had some pretty good side impacts, but short of wrapping it. The cracks have not had any effect...

One hot, moonless and crystal clear night really stands out in my memory. We were camped on one of our favorite island sites in the St, Regis canoe area in the Adirondacks. Close to midnight, in an effort to escape the heat, we donned our PFDs and swam out into the lake. Hanging motionless in...

I just finished “The Boys in the Boat” on Audible. While not about canoeing, per se, it was a gripping true story. It may very well be on one of the other reading lists. First published in 2013 and a long time best seller. Entertaining and inspirational. Highly recommended. (It is about...

My son has a Mad River ME which developed serious cold cracks - some clear down into the bilge. It was one day away from being thrown in a dumpster by my son in law, who had stored it outside over the winter for several years. We repaired it with Gflex and tape and it survived. The photos are...

You don’t have to take the gunwales all the way off, especially since the cold crack is near one of the ends. I have just loosened the section around the crack when repairing several Royalex Mad River canoes with cold cracks. Being in AZ you shouldn’t have an issue with the gunwales rotting...

More info on hearing aids. I have had mine for nearly a year and like them. I have Phonak brand and got them through an audiologist for about 2k. The cost will vary depending on the type and severity of hearing loss. I really like the bluetooth connection to my IPhone. I can listen to...

I am always carrying drinking water when running silty desert rivers, I.e. the Green, Colorado, Yampa, etc. anyway, so I now freeze Plastic 1.5 liter orange juice bottles and carry them in softside coolers and/or my Yeti 50 hardside cooler. I transfer the water to my hydroflask as it melts and...

We made an unusual and kind of scary find on a multi day trip down the Green River south of Pinedale, Wyoming. It wasn’t on a portage trail, but in the river. Our group of about six canoes- mostly 8-15 year old kids had just passed under the LaBarge road bridge when someone shouted that they...

We did a 3-4 day trip on the Green River in Wyoming about 25 years ago. I just looked at the route on Google Earth and it doesn’t look like it has changed much. We put in on the New Fork River south of Pinedale and took out at the top of the Fontenelle Reservoir. We saw no other boaters but a...

The center photo clearly shows the cracks from side to side on the exposed cross section. You can look for similar cracks along the full length of the boat. What is shown should be an easy fix with only a couple of screws to remove on each side.

I have a Kestrel 2000 - a cheaper version of Nomad’s 2500, and use it for wind speed and occasionally temperature. I like correlating weather forecasts with observed conditions to get a feel for the probable accuracy of future weather forecasts and how wind from various directions affects wave...