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I personally dislike campfires. They take time in the morning when we want to get on the water, and they stink up gear, mainly clothing and tents. We do have fires when it's cold, or small ones to burn paper and burnable garbage, de-smell food cans, those sorts of things, but they're uncommon...

Boy'ndogs, Not trying to belittle your idea with my previous post, but I seem to remember seeing it proposed before. Maybe it was on another site? Not sure. Anyway, it wouldn't work in most of the rivers I've paddled, which are mainly small, some of them tending to meander some. I could see it...

Alan! Just make it twice as big! < Huge GRIN >

I'm likely not going to be as helpful here as I'd hoped to be with usable info on the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande. Looking through gauges and stages, etc., across a few years doesn't suggest a season as truly reliable to me. duNord also indicated essentially the same in his note above...

Because it's desert doesn't mean little or nothing grows there. In fact, if there's water, chances are there is profuse vegetation in any soil that allows plant growth in it. Thick and impenetrable is the usual description of it. The Green and Colorado are good examples. Another is the Rio Grande.

Desert Sports, the outfitter we used for a shuttle, does guided trips there. I was capable of doing it myself so wasn't interested in paying guides, still am not. Reliable season looks to be late fall into winter, but it can be easy to get into high water, too. Knowing weather generalities...

Let me do a little bit of research and get back to you. Don't take me or my info as gospel as I've done one (that's 1) trip on the river and section, by which I mean you can't draw a curve from a single data point. The river's flows fluctuate wildly and conditionis can change quickly (like most...

It's more of a pool drop, but the pools aren't pools, there's usually current because at low levels the water is usually pretty shallow. Not always, but usually. Overusing that word? If you do end up planning on going upstream, take a pole with you (and maybe a spare?) and practice with it...

Alan (and duNord), The Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande are very beautiful and interesting, very remote. So remote that there is very little invasion of illegals across it to gain entry from Mexico to the USA. Illegals do cross there, just not very often. It is definitely a whitewater trip...

I've done both in the past. It's theoretically "higher strength to weight ratio" to use the one piece lengthwise with the narrow patches up just under the gunnels. It's also less noticeable, which may be a bigger factor for "pretty boat" category, and you'll use less glass. It won't be very...

"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." -- Adlai Stevenson II (Radio address 29 September 1952) Notice the date on that.

Keep going with your story, Silent. Don't sweat the grammar and such too much, but do feel free to fix if Glenn will let you (I'll applaud your efforts to do so). I think you can only edit for two days after posting if I remember right. I've done the Bowron Circuit several times over a long...

West system hardener does go bad eventually, or at least I had some that did. It was quite old, likely at least a dozen years at the time (could have been 15 or more?). I don't remember if it was the fast or slow. It was the last bit of a batch from a friend that he gave me. I tried it as a...

Thanks Al and others. Yup, it did work just enough. There are other rapids downstream where we had other close calls, but not as close as this one. I could upload the sequence of Blossom Bar but they aren't anywhere near as intense looking. The water was up enough that the one eddy we were...

A post in a thread several days back made me think of an image or two in this slide sequence one of the other participants took of my wife and I on the Rogue River in Southwest Oregon years back (Late June, 2006), one of the few runs on that river that we paddled together OC2. I no longer...

Lowangle, I'm assuming you're referring to beam wind? If you're into a headwind, yes you're leaning into it (forward). If side (beam) wind, and strong (a relative term), I would lean into it, and generally paddle on the windward side. If your boat is empty, little gear, this effect is more...

Can't really see anything in the pic provided so far, but my initial perception is cold-molded mahogany (or other various woods). Could be composite, also. The latter is even more likely, but my guess still leans more toward the molded mahogany, of which I really know little about. I've seen a...

You label this story as "fantasy," which to me implies "magic" appears in it. Doesn't have to of course, possibly just my own SF/Fantasy perceptions taking over. If it's more "action/adventure" just taking place on a fictional world, that would be great. I'm all for realism, "real people, doing...

Why not mold the blade right onto the shaft rather than make a blade then glue it to (into?) a shaft? I'd think it would be stronger this way, though maybe not significantly so? Maybe lighter, too, though again maybe not significantly so? A lot of possible construction variables for sure.

Rather than untie my bags and throw them out in the middle of rapids for easier bailing, then haul bags back in and retying them all, I find it much, much quicker and easier (and safer) to just paddle to shore and dump my boat out, then climb back in and push off. I even do it in the...