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Thanks Robin! That means something coming from you. Yea. I got home last night and couldn't stop fiddling with the dang thing until around I looked up and it was after midnight. House dark. Wife asleep. Cat scratching at the door. Turns out those little clips take up LOTS of memory and my...

So I borrowed a few GoPros yesterday and attempted a short video. Har har har. My first. All-in-a-day backyard canoe outing. Amateurish and unschooled, definitely. Some dead batteries. Millions of miles of useless tape. My story lines tend to be informed from an English Major's literary...

Got brain? Use brain.

Suuuup paddling dude! You'll have to forgive me. The day is absolutely perfect and I’m stuck at work behind a computer, drawing lines on an expensive etch-a-sketch. The horror… the horror of an impossibly close Nirvana is breaking me down. But the topic of flying solo flying loaded flying...

Hammock guy most of the time. Though I do as well have an Outdoor Research bag with the hoop for your head that I can slide under a tarp for particularly cold beaches (sans trees for hammock or simply too cold for a hammock). But you will only find me in the bivy on cold winter nights when the...

Well told. I like this cat already. Joe, the mechanic. I'd like to see him flying. Maybe the story continues in the air once he gets it all back together. Shuttle bunny!

Yes. I certainly did read the speed story. Two separate speedsters broke the "emerald mile" record twice in three days! (Which included a night swim of Lava?? Sheeeeet...) Humans are nothing if not driven. I've pretty much parked my whitewater kayaks. For the same reason my wife has never...

I've watched a few dories come down through the New River Gorge, and they certainly have a sort of regal elegance. Not been bitten by any bugs to oar anything yet, however, though I've done a wee bit of oaring. Mostly my time at the oars ends up with me in the water or me under an upsidedown...

The Christening of Blue... In honor of our upcoming trip down GC, blue has received an official name. Her post-christening maiden voyage took place today, on our local backyard after work run.... It's official now.

Nice looking map case! Classy for sure. If I'm organized I laminate my quads before a trip and keep them clipped to my float bag so when I crash and lose my boat I'm completely lost. If I'm not organized--and I'm usually not--I keep the quads folded in my drysuit so when I crash I know which...

So the old man and I finally took a long awaited springtime trip down to North Tennessee to run the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. It was a new river for both of us, though I think he may have run the "upper" gorge some twenty-five or thirty years ago. He couldn't quite remember and...

Poop tube works fine and fits into the boat like a dream. My only complaint is the WEIGHT. Direct deposit into this one can be a little tough (it's a little long and I've got to bury about six inches into the sand to get it low enough), but I'll be using the intermediary wag bags for...

Hey now! Zee boat est lookin good! Ready for some sporty scanoo camping! I love canoe camping the Class III/IV rivers. Get yer sporty downriver on while spending a bunch of nights on the river! (I'm not a big fan of the portage, anyway.) So nice job on the outfit. I guess the open spaces you...

Blanket-and-quilt-sleeper-types: Has anyone tried the Sierra Designs zipperless "bed style" sleeping bags? I have been eyeing them for a while now if only because zippers become so wearisome. They appear to have some pretty interesting features. I as of yet don't personally know anyone who has...

As well you should be tempted by such paddles. I have found that once I feel the call to experience some particular place or paddle some particular river, that alone will be reason enough to move forward with plans. Let something else bar the path. And such a mix of emotion! Yes, haunted. Yes...

Finally getting around to this book. Pretty excited. On the back: Such, such were the joys...

Some of them important and influential folks just finished a trip. Might be worth investigating. Start here:

The Maples are budding. It's heading up toward 70 degrees today. And the old men are emerging from hibernation.

You're welcome Cary. And don't be fooled by the downhill feel of Appalachian Rivers. There's quite a bit of scenic and historic flatwater floating (of which I do a fair bit) and quite a bit of river to be run by anyone willing to do a little portaging of the occasional drop (which at my current...

Jag, I'm loath to report that I'll not be able to make the San Juan on April 7. I'm unfortunately juggling too many balls for me to make a clean break for two weeks right now. I have nonetheless ordered my handful of books for study and the river will now be in my headlights. I shall have to...