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The Dead is great - one of my favorites as well. 14-miles of spruce trees and class II/III rapids - at least at the levels that I run it. This was my first trip back to the Dead since before COVID. Webbs/Riverdrivers stopped doing the shuttle around that time. For a while you needed to self...

Yup that’s it - same level too. In that video you can see a canoe going down the right side of Upper Poplar. That is the open boat line. On Lower Poplar he takes the right line that we were on. At about 3:14 you can see him go between a couple of big boulders and catch the eddy. The green...

There are rivers that aren’t too difficult if you take the right lines, but can be brutal if you don’t. I was on one of these rivers on Saturday – the Dead in ME, and I paid the price for a bad line on the last rapid - Lower Poplar. My first swim of the year. The Dead is one of the longest...

I’ve also joined the Millbrook club. I just bought a lightly-used Millbrook Outrage. This is the second boat that I have in both Royalex and composite versions - Wildfire/Yellowstone Solo and now the Outrage. I haven’t had a chance to paddle it much yet. I did do a short early morning paddle a...

I'm not much of a racer, but I did enter a flatwater race on my local river the Blackstone back in 2010. Looking back at the results, the fastest time was a tandem canoe at 1:52, but that team was only a couple of minutes ahead of the fastest kayak at 1:54. I remember being surprised because I...

A buddy of mine has a Starfire (at least I think it is a Starfire), but it is a solo and royalex - good tripping or "big-boy" boat.

To each his own. I have been trying to master the double blade for a couple of years now, but in a sea kayak, not a canoe. We rent a house on the beach for two weeks each summer and this is the first year that I didn't even bring a canoe - just my sea kayak. I use a 210 Werner Shuna paddle with...

I find it much easier to get up and out from a kneeling position. Lean forward with a hand on each gunnel. Bring one knee up so you have a foot on the boat. With those three points of contact centered in the boat you can get your body up and your other foot out over the gunnel on to shore. I...

You are going to get in right in front of the seat. Lean over the boat with one hand on each gunnel. Trying to keep you weight centered, bring you first foot into the boat. Once you feel stable on those three points of contact bring your other foot in. Stay low and keep your body centered in the...

Definitely - it needs to be a group effort or it becomes catering. That's no fun.

We were both kneeing. The boat is set up with thigh straps that would have helped, but I don't usually put them in anymore. It's bad enough getting my feet out from under the bench seat. The straps would just be one more thing to get hung up on.

He was at the top, but not at the bottom. Doesn't look like I am on the seat either. We hit a rock at the bottom that knocked us both off our seats.

There are end bags in my Mohawk tandem that stay in all the time. They don't need to be there most of the time, but I am too lazy to take them out. The center bag only goes in when I need it - like this drop that got my partner grabbing the gunnels...

I agree that it is nice sitting down at the table for a meal all at once. There definitely is a sense of camaraderie to it. It is not without its challenges. You need to accommodate people with food allergies, food restrictions, or food preferences. I like meat, so it is a bit of a...

Turkey dinner for Canadian Thanksgiving - I like that. It is pretty amazing what you can cook in camp if you don't mind lugging it all out there.

On most of the trips I do, everyone takes turns cooking groups meals. Just curious how common that is.

The ultimate poling boat. you lucked out getting that boat. Did you buy it new or find it used.

The trip was open to all, but it ended up being all men. We usually have at least one woman (like you), but she is on a month-long trip in the Yukon. The club also does base camp trips around New England and the ADK, and those get a good mix of women and men. On this trip, I think the lack a...

The best thing to have along on a trip is a good cook, and we had several on this trip. ;)

The Big Daddy skillet. Lisa Dehart did a video on the Big Daddy. This is the 20" version and it is stainless steel. We did breakfast for 8 in that one pan - bacon, sausage, homefries and eggs. Didn't make it into my picture album, but here is Dan adding the eggs. The other thing that I had...