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From the article: "Law enforcement agencies have conducted searches from where the vehicle was located to several miles throughout the Gabriels area and the town of Brighton." Brighton is the township where the WCHA Assembly is held each year and where I paddled for three days after this...

Thanks. Fellow I had in mind is from England.

The winner of the cardboard "canoe" race struts her stuff at the 2025 WCHA Assembly paddle-by. Each kid gets three pieces of cardboard and a roll of duct tape to build a canoe, which they then race against each other from the dock, around a buoy and back to the dock. (@Conk, I believe...

Lennart, what year was that photo? The man in the foreground looks like someone I know.

Well, Fyodor is an Eastern Orthodox priest. Among many other adventure record achievements, in 2016 Fyodor set the world record for circumnavigating the world solo in a hybrid hot air balloon (11 days) and only the second soloist to do it.

Darren Bush goes into more detail about his career-switching decision in his substack blog: https://canoelover.substack.com/p/how-do-i-tell-the-world-whats-in

Sounds lovely. We look forward to reading and seeing pictures of your trip. (Tangent: Google AI says there's no such vehicle as an Eifel Yeti. Yet I see one. The digital world is often so unreal. Go canoeing!)

"Rutabaga paddlesports owner Darren Bush announced that he will close the Madison, Wisconsin, paddling shop at the end of the year to pursue a calling as a hospice chaplain. Bush will continue to own and operate Canoecopia, the largest consumer gathering in the paddlesports business." "'Some of...

Tell us more about the paddling location. It is unknown to us.

HOW you should swim aggressively to shore after a period of being in the passive, on-your-back position is literally a time for "different strokes for different folks." I have never been a strong swimmer, especially with the Australian crawl or freestyle stroke. I learned breast stroke as a kid...

I agree. Since you are undoubtedly one of the most experienced Canadian wilderness trippers on this site, I was mainly interested in whether you hide your food barrel/pack far away from your tent or hang it in trees. I take it you don't do either, other than sometimes putting it in a separate...

I missed the end of this thread. Congrats to you and your family, Jake! If you've got a solid job, that's a great area to live for canoeists and outdoors folks. I was there several times this summer. Make sure to visit the WCHA Assembly at Paul Smith's College next July, right up the road from...

What is it? So many cars look so much alike since 1980. Interesting rack system for a sedan: one roof bar and a hitch T-mount. Edit: Never mind. There was finally a fusion between my eyes and your existing thread on the vehicle and rack.

You embedded a looping Imgur video? That's a first! What river is that?

The popular Blue Hole OCA and Sunburst canoes had aluminum gunwales, thwarts and decks, and usually solid plastic seats. A Mad River with vinyl gunwales usually had wooden thwarts and plastic decks with cane seats. This hull looks like a Blue Hole as does the logo sticker on its bow: Maybe...

Erica, those look like two different canoes in the two pictures. The first one appears to be a green Mad River with black vinyl gunwales. The second appears to be a blue or green canoe with aluminum gunwales, perhaps a Blue Hole from the logo sticker. In fact in your OP, the first two pictures...

I meant the same thing. Last ditch: go into a forward crawl swimming posture, swim aggressively at the sweeper for momentum, and then try to launch your torso up onto the sweeper/strainer high enough so that the current doesn't pendulum-drag your legs under it. This theoretically should give...

Swimming in whitewater with a PFD is only marginally related to regular swimming in flatwater with no PFD. There are different scenarios that involve different techniques and hence muscle groups. 1. You have lost your boat and paddles and are swimming alone. The technique is to get on your back...

@recped, looking at the picture of your barrel and pack next to your tent, I wondered what procedures (if any) you employed for bear protection of your food on this trip, or in general on your many long wilderness trips. Maybe you've stated before in threads, but I don't recall.

Mad River is out of business, so I'm not sure where you might get comparable vinyl gunwales. Maybe someone sells them. However, I don't think I'd replace them if the only damage is that one small missing chunk of outwale. I'd probably try to fill the void with thickened epoxy, building a "dam"...