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I hope you are enjoying this report, and I really appreciate your patience! I have only one more day to post, but it will be more than a week before I can get to it. Lake Tahoe calls for some R & R. Cheers! -rs

Day 7: The confluence of the Wood and Pawcatuck Rivers to Post Office Lane below Potter Hill Dam, Westerly, RI Once again, we woke up to a phenomenal sunny, dry day with nothing to do but paddle to our next campsite. *yawn* Our only obligation was to get to the paddling access down in...

A good craft beer IS the good stuff.

I recently received something called the "Impressive Flask Award" from the "Adventure Flask Society" (look them up). It was an impressive flask for sure...this puppy can contain an entire fifth of liquor. Despite regulations that may have dictated to the contrary, it arrived via the U.S...

I have been sending a lot of folks to the site and letting them know they have to register in order to see photos. I don't know if that is true or not, but what the hell, maybe it worked.

Welcome from a neighbor in Rhode Island! I hope your spring canoe trip plans come along nicely, and good luck! Nothing like camping out of a canoe.

Day 6, down the Wood River from Barberville to its confluence with the Pawcatuck River. It was cool overnight, and a cool, dry morning as we awoke. We convened in the conference room for a mosquito-free breakfast of leftovers: hot dogs, potato salad, egg salad, and strawberry rhubarb crisp...

Day 5: Portaging out of Big River Management Area out to Congdon Hill Road, up to Route 3, over to Austin farm Road, and through Arcadia Management Area to reach the Wood River and paddle down to Barberville. A few scattered raindrops fell early in the morning, and that turned out to be the...

Day 4: From Riverpoint Park, West Warwick, all the way up the South Branch Pawtuxet River, across Flat River Reservoir and up the Big River to camp in Big River Management Area, West Greenwich. I got up after a restful night and mentally checked my social calendar for the day. Let’s see…three...

Nice write up, and the pictures tell a great story. It looks like the food was worth having the guide along, IMHO! The BWCA is definitely on my bucket list. -rs

I have found the key to racing for me is good drafts, and I mean that in two contexts. First, drafting behind a fast boat (i.e. paddling only a couple feet behind the boat and taking advantage of their slipstream) can allow you to paddle at the same speed as they do with far less effort, since...

Day 3: From “The Oxbows” all the way up the Pawtuxet River to Riverpoint Park at the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Pawtuxet. Once again we were up early, and were packed and on the river by around 8:10. We hadn’t even started upriver yet when I head a shout from shore...

The effort I like to put into having some beer amounts to the equivalent of popping open a can. And there are so many good beers now that come available in a can that, to me, it is worth the effort and weight over the portage trail. I am intrigued by the idea of dehydrated beer, and I have read...

The cart Glenn has is the same as I and probably YC has. They are almost, but not quite, bomb proof. When a couple pals of mine were wheeling their admittedly over-loaded canoe with one of those carts, and not paying attention to the orientation of the wheels while horsing it up a steep grade...

If all you want is a cart that will transport an empty boat over a portage (or a nearly empty boat), then nearly any cart will do. A center mount cart will be easier and keep the frustration factor low. If you need it to carry a load, something heavier duty is in order. On a recent trip I did...

Day 2: Central Falls, down the Blackstone, Pawtucket and Seekonk Rivers and a bit of Narragansett Bay to "The Oxbows" State Park on the Pawtuxet River, Cranston, RI On these sorts of long distance canoe trips, it is usually nice to wake up knowing that there is no rain in the forecast. But...

Ah retirement. I have heard of such fascinating periods of life. Yet every time I look down the road, my retirement date seems to pull away from me further into the future. Assuming that one of these days I can retire, and assuming I am still healthy enough to paddle, this sounds like a...

Day 1: Blackstone River, North Smithfield to Central Falls When I arrived at our put-in at The Meadows town park, Billy and his sister were already there. As I started to unload, our friend Tommy, who was part of last year’s attempt but unable to accompany us the whole way this year, came by to...

I should preface the trip report with some background information. Two questions probably have arisen already: What’s the big deal with canoeing across Rhode Island? It is, after all, the smallest state in the nation. As one smart@$$ put it, “Sure, but what are you going to do on the next day?”...

I need to figure out if something similar can be done from Picasa. Working on a trip report last night, I was able to load photos at a decent size, but had to do so by loading/inserting it as an "attachment" from my hard drive. It worked, but it was clunky and not intuitive (I'm no tech wizard)...