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Spotted four Ruddy Ducks in the Mattabesset River near Middletown, CT. We're at the very northern tip of their migration territory. First time that I've seen them in the wild. Nov. 23, 2022

Hudsonian Godwit that I spotted Oct. 31, in the Wheeler Marsh, coastal Connecticut. Not a great photo, but a seldom seen bird. It's a long migrator - nests on Hudson Bay and Arctic coast, winters in Argentina

Why? Time spent on twitter is deducted from your life.

We missed paddling this lake, but only by 15,000 years. If anyone is a geology freak, I recommend looking into the Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington. Nick Zenter from Central Washington University does some great lectures available on youtube. Lake Missoula was over 2000 ft deep and...

I let my gunwales get scratched. It's a canoe and if I worry about what it looks like, it might as well not be a canoe.

I have learned from solo travel that I will always feel out of sorts for the first couple days. After that, I'm pretty well adjusted to being alone. If you keep a clean camp, you're biggest danger is when you are moving. Solo travel means paying attention to what you are doing.

I kneel about 2/3 of the time, but especially when I need power or I am in waves or moving water. I kneel on 1/2 inch closed cell foam pads that are glued in. Like Glen said, shoe choice is important - a flexible enough sole/upper that still gives some wading/portage support. My seats are tipped...

My first thought on all of this was someone needing a carabiner to pull a deadfall out of the way and getting hit in the face by a cheap broken junk piece of aluminum. spend the extra $3

I think that 1,009 will be enough.

barf... I always wanted a canoe that required a mallet.

If you buy good carabiners, then you have carabiners for any situation.

Yeah, I remember fondly a soggy down sleeping bag on an Alaskan glacier. It only took 5 days to dry out... it was a -20F bag, when dry. You're right, I never let that happen again.

Aluminum rental canoes used to figure large in drownings - like 60-70%. And here, when they say "kayaks" you can bet that those boats are cheap flatwater rec boats. They should really differentiate between whitewater and sea kayaks, and the ten foot long drag-it-across-the-parking-lot boats. Of...

GPS. I have an old and almost dead Garmin Rhino. It was handy when I was doing archaeology surface surveys, but that was it - It's nice to have a precise location to pass on to someone for that type of work. Using it for any outdoor navigation just took my head completely out of the game. I...

Needs gunnels, seats and thwarts, and maybe some hull work, but it still floats. Used only once. Always stored inside. They don't make Royalex anymore, so these are really in demand! Easy to portage! It weighs only 8 lbs!!! $800.

nice writing and photos. good job

I'm doing good if my feet are still in the canoe

"Trade Route" 38x56 inches, hand sewn beadwork I finished this piece in 2021. Instead of beading the water as water, I filled it with reports, charts and data about the Yakima River (Eastern Washington). The title refers to the trading of salmon spawning grounds for irrigation. The Yakima is...

Today's photo from the canoe. Checking for boat traffic as I was about to cross the river...thought I'd wait for them to pass.