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This has been a reasonable discussion sticking to the issues, not the politics, of a proposed project that is controversial. If that's so, the project will be halted by the courts in an appropriate lawsuit. Related to the current scope of NEPA, as I discussed in another thread, in May 2025 a...

I didn't realize Penetrol works on oxidized plastic as well as oxidized composite canoes. The way I understand how it works is that the oxidation creates zillions of micro-pits in the outer layer of the hull. When light strikes these micro-pits, it reflects off in all directions, resulting in a...

Ambiguous terminology strikes again. There are two different utensils called "sporks". One utensil has a spoon on one end and a fork on the other (perhaps including a cutting edge, too). The other utensil is a spoon with small tines on the end. Here are a variety of sporks. I once had the...

Al, I've paddled whitewater extensively on various sections of the upper Hudson River and, for other reasons, am very familiar with Glens Falls. I don't associate whitewater or whitewater courses with Glens Falls. Do you perhaps mean The Glen on the upper Hudson? I remember kayak and rafting...

Oh my. I have to look at a map of North America. That's the only continent on which I've paddled. Maine (where I started canoeing every summer from age 8) New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut New York New Jersey Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida...

Since starting this thread, my Google Fi cell service moved solely to T-Mobile towers. There were spots in the Adirondacks where I couldn't get a signal last summer. T-Mobile is currently reputed to have the most 5G towers, but they are clustered around cities and I don't think 5G is important...

That's an interesting viewpoint, Al. I don't even notice that notice anymore. But you may be right. So, I've turned of that notice feature. Similar Threads will no longer appear when someone is writing a new topic, but they will continue to appear when reading topics.

I've never published a policy or rule about posting cross-links to threads from other paddling sites because it rarely happens. However, I would discourage it because I'm in the business—and it is a business—of promoting this site, not some other paddling site. That said, you are an exception...

The Hudson River from Riparius to The Glen is where I took whitewater instruction from John Berry in 1983. It's a 2-2+ run when the Hudson in running at about 3.5 feet. The open boat level on the Hudson is between 3.0 and 4.0 feet. The hardest rapid on this section, having an almost-invisible...

Gumpus, you could contact Jeremy Vore of Redleaf Designs (@JV_RedLeafDesigns), who has probably paddled and raced all the Swift Cruisers.

Our nomadic mycologist shows up in Switzerland . . . and I'm reluctant to drive to Walmart . . . so this trip report is very motivating. Is that Aslowhand's canoe? I've now forgotten what he paddles, although I have a dim memory from years ago that he used to borrow a friend's canoe. Is it a...

Jason, first let me welcome you to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to...

We don't have an off-topic forum here, and won't under my administration. Politics is strictly forbidden by the rules. On the other hand, I don't mind an occasional tangent or some thread drift when a thread topic seems to be exhausted. I'm not sure I've ever locked a thread for that reason...

I should have made clearer in this thread and the age poll thread, where I said something similar, and in all places where I have said similar things in the past, that when I refer to the decline in "canoe discussion" sites or "canoe discussion" enthusiasts or posters, I am excluding all social...

MB, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details...

Packrat, since you've publicly acknowledged that you turned 90 in February, you are to my knowledge the "senior-ist citizen" on the site. I'm curious, did you do the Bowron circuit alone?

Here is a graph showing the average number of daily "users active" each month from our migration onto Xenforo in August 30, 2021, through today: The highest actual daily total was 185 active users on February 19, 2025. What constitutes an "active user" each day is a bit murky. "Users" only...

As I pointed out in the thread on site member activity, what's clear from the 2016 poll vs. the 2026 poll is that the modal age, over the past 10 years, has moved from the 50s, skipped right over the 60s, and is now in the 70s. This suggests to me that folks interested in discussion forums about...

One thing obvious from the 2016 age poll vs. the 2026 poll is that, in ten years, the modal age here has jumped from the 50s, right over the 60s, and now into the 70s. Combine that with the obvious fact that kayak sales have significantly outpaced canoe sales for the past 40 years, and one can...

. . . to which at least @ppine and @recped had replied. There was nothing wrong or against the rules about the subject matter of the thread or the replies. It's just that, very coincidentally for administrative reasons, I don't want LLM AI bots reading or cataloging that subject matter. Sorry...