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I’ve done the dollar general challenge with our scouts where they have to get all their backpacking meals for a trip from there. Not particularly healthful but it makes them think creatively.

Good one Gamma… Here’s my favorite from the NPS:

No complaints other than that the factory roof racks, which will handle a single boat, have a sandpaper like coating that eats up wood gunnels. Easy to sand smooth though.

The start of what appears to be an epic adventure Erica. Inspiring!

Wow, beautiful spot.

I’m sure you’re be right Benson. I should have done the research before posting that. My apology. Rob

This adventure was inspired by Robin and his canoe restorations. In particular, his rail replacements on different boats over the years. I wanted to see what it would take to mill rails from one of the last of our dying white ash trees. The first wave of the ash borer took out most of our ash...

This popped up recently. Cold cracks in vinyl rails

Great documentation Glenn. Thanks. I had dad duties this weekend otherwise I would have been there. Next year maybe I’ll throw him in the car with me.

Great writeup and photos Gamma. I grew up up the Mon (Monongahela) in West Virginia. The “industrial” rivers have a lot of potential for exploration. I hope to get on the Allegheny before long. That canoe is a dandy. I bet it was the nicest looking boat in the river that day.

Yes, just drilled through the roof bars and used fender washers as the metal was pretty thin.

These rails are 80” and made of ash bolted through the existing racks with the old hardware from my Yakima racks. I used to use rope and a truckers hitch but I’m sold on the NRS straps now. Makes the load feel really secure and I don’t feel the need for any sort of load stabilizer. I use hood...

We passed one with a canoe on our way back from Temagami this summer. Yes, the canoe was pointed up at about a 30 degree angle and looked like a flaccid airport windsock. The curvilinear canoe mounted on the back of the angular vehicle. It was a, “what’s wrong with this picture” moment as the...

The color looks great Robin. The sikaflex is a nice detail. Rob

Photo from Keewaydin Temagami Endseason last weekend. The campers have tumped up the boats as part of a skills competition. The boats are waiting their turn for a camper to flip them up, load them on the water with duffels and loaded wannigan and then paddle them through a course tandem and...

A really nice community of dedicated paddlers and instructors, many of whom travel great distances to attend. I’ve learned a lot there as well and am fortunate to be close by. You get to hang out with the rock stars of the freestyle world and it turns out they’re just regular people like the...

Paddled through the upper Cuyahoga, yes, that Cuyahoga, yesterday. Water levels were up and that allowed for paddling around sweeps in the main channel more easily. This section passes through woodlands of maple, elm, swamp white oak and the remnants of ash. It then opens up into a button bush...

Makes me wonder if a person’s eyes would see past a black rope more easily when visibility is poor?

I inherited a couple sets with the rubber tube when I bought my used Phoenix and it feels like the webbing is getting a little crunchy on them but they haven’t broken yet. The owner said they were cheaper ones she had picked and the webbing seems less robust than the loops I’ve had from Piragis...

I wrote about this situation over on the WCHA forum: “I just found out while trying to register my 1965 Old Town WC canoe that Ohio now requires that boats without a 12 digit HIN (hull inspection number) be assigned one before they can be licensed. The original original serial numbers are not...