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And even that convention is not reliable. There are three "pitches" on the Rapid River in Maine that are all runnable. You look at it, you make a judgment, and you deal with any consequences. That's about all one can do. Given the condition of Scott's canoe after his tango in Mosquito Rips, I'm...

Well, honestly, just about any freshwater river or lake in the State of RI fits that bill. True, we occasionally see the wandering yearling bear in the spring, none of whom seem to be able to read a road map, but the chances of running into one of the 3 or 4 we might have in the state at any one...

1. Beware the dri-ki trap on Flagstaff Lake...easily visible on aerials, but the NFCT map shows it as water. 2. At the end of Flagstaff, once the portage trail intersects a cart path you can wheel the rest by going left out to the main road, and then right. At the next fork, go left (although...

A surplus of those bungie-ball deeliebob things that came with a new canopy resulted in a whole slew of Eureka moments. They are now used to: 1) secure my folding saw to a thwart; 2) provide multiple tie-down points by inserting them and securing them to slotted gunnels; 3) provide quick way...

I usually just put mine into my large back-pack style Sealline dry bag, without any extra protection. I have a thermarest sleeping pad, and I once immersed it into a pond looking for a leak. It dried out in no time, like 20 minutes in the sun. You could almost towel-dry it if you had to if it...

I'll usually wear my EMS Gore-Tex rain jacket, which has held up really well over the years. I have a back-up Marmot light rain shell if the primary jacket just gets too wet and clammy. If it is really miserable, I'll put on Marmot rain pants over whatever else I am wearing (usually shorts or...

If you don't want to bother with a net bag or some other method to carabiner the sponge to a thwart, it is pretty simple to install a bungy cord un a thwart or next to a seat, and just secure the sponge under the elastic cord. -rs

I already read through this from your Facebook post but, dammit, I couldn't resist burning some work time here reading it again. Thanks, Conk!

Thanks again for the ideas, Mike. I've never really worked at all with any fabric, and intend on picking the brains of both Doug and Mike to get a better idea of what I need. They can clue me in to mystery terms such as "seamed edge tape" and "peel ply". I don't have any Kevlar skid plates on...

Thanks, Mike, You are probably right about the gunnels, and I bet my wife would agree with you, dang her, but I absolutely loathe vinyl gunnels. I'd feel like I was killing off the spirit of the canoe. It makes no sense, and I'm usually the most practical guy in any room, but there you have...

If I didn't already have one, I'd consider making an offer. But the one I have is still in pretty good shape. The brightwork needs some attention (I'm horrible with the upkeep of woodwork, and I see at least some new gunnels in my future, probably in the next five years or so), and I'll...

I've never canceled a multi-day trip due to weather forecast, but I usually have padded the schedule a bit so that we can take a day or two off during the trip and still make our mileage if needed to avoid mad windy lakes or torrential downpours. We've only actually done so a couple times...

Yeah, I'd be willing to bet Baker is still iced in. There is a youtube video of this year's ice-out...really good aerial views from a drone of moving ice. So not really "ice-out", I suppose, but at least it is moving and the ice jams are clearing up. And they claimed in the written...

I'll be with a group to the St. John in Maine this May. Ice-out was around April 10th, but there is still plenty of snow still to melt in the watershed, so we'll be canoeing on liquid ice, essentially. It can sometimes hit the 70's or 80's in Maine in May, but we'll all be wearing either...

Goonstroke: For what it is worth, maybe ten years ago when I first met the Surprenants who own Chesuncook Lake House, they told me that they would sometimes drop their sons off at the Pine Stream bridge you describe, along with a canoe (or was it a couple kayaks? I don't remember), and the boys...

As I started wading up a section of Spencer Stream in Maine, my canoe following me at the end of a short leash as I tracked it upstream, the horseflies and deerflies found me. The deerflies were more annoyance than anything, flying circular sorties around my Tilley, but not scoring any hits...

I know a couple of you mentioned aspects of the trip that I have some recent experience in, so I thought I would chime in here in the hopes it is helpful to anyone else doing the trip. The Road: We drove the road in September 2015 all the way into Chesuncook Village. It was rough, but...

It's not too difficult to stretch it out to 7 days at a Menacing Duckhead pace, lol! We are starting at Baker Lake. I think our general plan is late mornings and early afternoons, with a muckle or two during the day. If we get ambitious and bang out 50 or more miles over two days we can enjoy a...

I found a record indicating that Nolan Whitesell ran every rapid in an OC-1 in 1984. I believe he is still the only open boater to run the Niagara Gorge.

Representing north-central RI, we got about 5" after all was said and done, after which it promptly froze to the consistency of concrete. About 10 miles north of me in the NW corner, they got 13". -rs