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Rolled up wad of clothing.

My PFD. I hardly ever need it, but I always wear it.

Yeah, about 1 more inch of zipper would be nice. I guess they're not used to old beefcake guys like us.

The best solo canoe would be a 35 foot motor yacht with a jacuzzi and bar.

Have fun carrying your kayak and pack on that upcoming 1/2 mile portage, not to mention the 1/2 hour on either end unloading and loading your gear into the kayak cargo bays.

Red Throated Loon in non-mating colors. Wheeler Marsh, Housatonic River, CT. Nov 16, 2023

I am mostly flat water paddling. 20 ft 1/4 inch floating painter on the bow, always. I have an optional 25 ft floater for the stern. It's enough to line a boat up past an old dam or short section of fast water. In cold water, I clip a 75 ft throw bag to the canoe because I'd rather just swim to...

I watch reruns of the "Dating Game". I'm in southern connecticut, so I can canoe as long as the ice doesn't get too thick.

One year, I took 50 canoe loads out of a favorite marsh. I learned that it was an accumulation of many years of stuff. For instance, plastic bottles are often several years old, they just survive so well (or awful). This shot is of a 200+ lb big lake buoy that had drifted into the cattails and...

polypro long johns with thicker poly fleece stuff. And a cheetah print speedo, of course.

Not sure why a magazine would bother to print an article by a new guy with little canoe experience or, apparently, any back country travel - he got lazy and didn't seal the drybag with his sleeping bag? The article belongs in "House and Garden" or "Readers Digest".

Left to right - Snowy Egret, immature Little Blue Heron, adult Little Blue Heron, Great Egret, immature Little Blue Heron. In the Menunkatusuck, Clinton CT. October 1

There are no inukshuks or rock cairns marking routes in my area. I knock rock piles down, as should the dorks that build them. And I try to not leave any sign of my own passing.

In Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" there is a detailed chapter on meanders and how farmers who lived inside the bends and miles away from the river would reroute the river by digging ditches across oxbow bends such that their farms would have close access to the steamboats. Only a narrow...

They're not storm troopers.

The best Pelican canoe is the one you didn't buy

In 1976 you wouldn't have known that until you got there.

we followed the Kuskulana Glacier to its headwall. We turned back at 13,500 not having enough food left to continue. Two big crevasse fields ate up a couple days. I think someone climbed it from the south, but south on that mountain is pretty wide. We had planned for a bush plane to drop food on...

I don't know what you'll think of the low light capabilities. Here's a list of why I like i 1 it is similar to my previous camera, the one i drowned. That one lasted 10 years. 2 I find canon menus to be logical - stuff appears in the right order, where I expect to find it. Exposure and iso and...