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I have never done it either, living in a slightly milder climate, but I've never heard of problems with other than Royalex family canoes in this expansion/contraction issue. If they have pop riveted gunnels, good luck. I have a couple Royalex canoes but store them inside. The building isn't...

Thanks Benson. Might be able to lean it far enough over to get the stem on top of the log to go over, but it would be dicey, as well as getting the hull back upright to finish the slide over. Shouldn't have to lean to come off the log if the try was successful. Hard on bark and the minimal...

Wouldn't work well with the Kootenay sturgeon-nosed canoe described by Adney in his "Bark Canoes and Skin Boats..." < HUGE GRIN >

My sister was visiting a couple years ago, and my wife and I took her canoeing on the local reservoir during her stay here. The reservoir is only a couple miles long and the boat ramp is right at the dam. I found a parking place maybe a block from the boat ramp and parked, then unloaded the...

Glenn, I used to have a black-gold Wildfire myself, bought a demo model directly from Ted Bell at the Outdoor Retailer show back about 2000 or so, then sold it to a local club member after my shoulder surgery ten years ago because I wasn't sure I'd be using it again, not quite trusting the...

I agree mostly with pblanc above. Both Kevlar/Twaron and carbon also have very high stiffness to weight ratios, so they help with the weight reduction in canoes in that respect, also, in that less material is needed to have a stiff enough hull to not deform appreciably when paddling it. If...

I have a stainless steel shoulder, right one, though I'm left handed. The "new" joint doesn't really affect me all that much. I had the total shoulder replacement done in early in 2014, so it's almost 10 years old now. That's long enough ago that I've well gotten used to it. It was a result...

I think the OP was from India or somewhere close to there. Lots of buffalo there, though they're water buffalo, not bison buffalo like the ones here in NA.

I was on a South Nahanni, NWT run back in 1993, also. August if I remember right. There was one day it hit 96 degrees F. What were we, a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle? Five days later it snowed. Great run except for the last couple days.

This one isn't a "weather" event but instead a "ground" event? It's still pretty big. I actually wasn't along on it, had taken a pass on going along this trip, but a friend I've done many others with and who was along gave me the story. It was an I think April 1993 Grand Canyon run, private...

ppine, I think it was '97 or '98, winter, our second trip into the 'Glades to explore it for a few days. We rented a Grumman (we'd flown to Orlando)_and spent I think three nights in a loop out of Chocoloskee, the western end of the 100-mile canoe trail there. We camped on a ground site the...

SK, I'm not gonna buy a cover or change my driving habits for this, either, but I think it could become more important to future canoeists if electric vehicles start to invade the canoeing world. If anyone else runs across more info, I think there are likely people here who'd like to hear it...

I don't have any experience with canoe covers myself and tend to agree with memaquay above on their usefulness -- at least for me, as I have inside storage capacity for all my boats that excludes UV (no windows). Others have different conditions, of course. One aspect of this I was introduced...

There's a thread going here on a canoe trip in Yellowstone that went bad, but here's something similar where it turned out okay. It's a long, windswept trip that happened back in 1987. Unfortunately it was paddled in one of them hated k*y*ks, but it is still a crazy trip worth mentioning...

Glenn, I've always felt much safter in class 4 whitewater than I usually do on big lakes also. I understand whitewater, don't big open water. I don't paddle on the ocean at all. That thing can kill your *ss.

Tsuga8, I think lots of lessons can be learned from this, though, of course, those lessons won't reach the vast majority of the folks who need them. Wind options vary a lot. Staying near the shore may not always be enough. I haven't paddled enough on Shoshone Lake (5 days) to know it much at...

My wife and I did this same trip on Lewis and Shoshone Lakes back in late August and early September of 2016 after doing a Yellowstone Lake SE arm trip just before it. I can attest to the wind problem. We ended up camping with a young couple one night at one of the sites near the Moose Creek...

Or put those bottles you're trying to cool the hot water in back in the original (cool) water they came from, lake or stream, that big heat sink. Properly leashed, of course.

No Skodas here (that I know of), but I remember when I first started canoeing in the Chicago area and after joining the canoe club there, if any member saw a vehicle with a canoe on the roof, they knew who it was. This was 1965, greater Chicago area population about 6.5 million at the time...

alsg, It is counterintuitive, but it's all in nuances of boat lean and how far from the boat those onside strokes are done. Set the circle going with the offside stroke or two and correct boat lean, and then switch to onside strokes close to the boat, and when needed -- just every once in a...