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That seems to be correct. Thank you for the clarification, Dana. What I meant to say relates to using the Insert Image tool (mountain icon). If you choose Upload Image option, the image will be uploaded to our server. If you instead choose the By URL option, the image will appear in the message...

You don't need to resize images before posting them. Xenforo will accept images up to 8000 KB. If the image is larger than that, it will be rejected. If the image is accepted, it will automatically be resized to a maximum of 950 x 950 pixels when it is inserted into a message. If the image is...

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The Boreas Ponds have the reputation of having perhaps the most beautiful lake-in-mountain scenery in the Adirondacks. I've seen video. Historically, the ponds were a bit of a hike to get into with no campsite nearby. Last summer, @Conk told me the access, parking and camping situation has been...

Or Old Town throwing a Tripper off their factory roof in 1973 to demonstrate the durability of "Oltonar," which was their name for Royalex. There was a picture of that in Canoe Magazine ads, but I can't find one. Maybe @Benson Gray can.

That's enchanting if you live where "the woods are lovely, dark and deep." But here's the dirty, messy reality of winter for many folks: Extra credit for identifying this canoe vehicle by model and year.

This is an interesting question. Here is what Cliff Jacobson, now 84, says about his 72-year canoe career, about the same as mine. https://paddlingmag.com/stories/columns/butt-end/cliff-jacobson-on-canoeing/ I'd say what what's changed for the better in my lifetime is the improvement in...

Maybe. Then there's the thing in the lower left corner that looks like a paddle blade with a reflection of a rare Quebec rodent-fish. (I have never been a taxonomic biologist.)

Gram weenies, pay attention! Matt Morris of Waterloo, Ontario, has made an 11.6 lb (5.3 kg) canoe that he tows by bicycle for urban paddling in Kitchener. Note also his homemade paddle collection, including a very clever "hand blade" paddle and a wooden feather blade paddle that weighs less...

Just catching up on this Agatha Christie plot twist thread. In the century-old tradition of "The Perils of Pauline", in which each episode ends with a damsel-in-distress cliffhanger, Erica punches out the best cliffhanger closing lines I've ever read in a trip report, including the "wrong...

Gamma, I think you mentioned in another thread that you make wine but not from grapes. Did I get that wrong? Anyway, could you explain what you will do with all that wine, especially if you keep making more. Do intend to use it all, sell it, give it away?

Thanks for the interesting snow trekking and camping report, Michael. The fluid colors in this photo create a surreal effect:

Thanks for the mid-winter paddle report and the pictures. Were you in your MR Explorer or what?

While the headline uses the word "navigation," the text of the article doesn't claim Apple iOS Compass is a navigation app. Here's what it says: "The compass app installed on every iPhone is accurate and handy. Teaching navigation to college students, I often deal with students arriving to...

I'm not familiar with these kind of apps, but this article reviews seven of them. Chip in if you have experience with these apps or others. https://paddlingmag.com/gear/accessories/electronics/best-navigation-apps/ Best for topo types: CalTopo Best for river trippers: NRS PaddleWays Best...

Interesting. He skied down K2 in 2018, seven years before Everest. I watched the movie. The drone photographic technology was not nearly as good as it is now. Here is a version that edits out all the narration splices and history and just focuses on the descent. I like watching climbing...

Non-skier here, but you ski folks are amazing and your photos are awesome. This reminds me of an impressive video I watched last week of Andrzej Bargiel, who summited Everest in September 2025 with no oxygen and then skied all the way down from the summit to the base camp. His slowing, turning...

Indeed technology has advanced exponentially during my lifetime, but tempus fugit. 1956 was three generations ago.

Not photos of my father's originals . . . But when I was 12 in 1956, I was communicating with all of you at 5 WPM with this device. A year later, when I qualified for my general license, I was communicating with you at 15 WPM (or faster) with this much more modern device—a "bug"—which had a...

Thanks for that video. I've never drilled or used a canoe with lining holes, but my understanding is that they should be low enough so that they are just above the cutwater when the loaded canoe is being lined or tracked. Robert, your DF 15 is so customized that I don't recall whether it has...