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The 2026 Pine Barrens Functional Freestyle Canoeing Workshop will be held on October 9-11 at the YMCA of the Pines in Medford Lakes, New Jersey. This is a chance to learn effective canoe paddling control techniques on both a lake and the famous Pine Barrens streams. Registration is now open...

"A river reaching the sea is the assumption built into the word river, and across the American West it is increasingly not true. The Colorado has not made the Gulf of California under natural conditions since 1998. The Gila, once one of the great tributaries of the Southwest, runs dry through...

"California has lost more large, historically significant lakes than any other US state. A “lost lake” is a natural lake whose normal open-water condition was eliminated by human water development, even if water occasionally returns. These losses can destroy wildlife habitat, reduce groundwater...

Doesn't look like a Yost design. Which will be the bow and stern?

In this linked article, Marc Ornstein focuses on the physics of: (1) the forward stroke, and (2) heeling and pitching the hull. https://freestylecanoeing.com/the-physics-of-freestyle-without-the-numbers/ "Freestyle canoeing has been described as 'The Art and Science of Quiet Water Paddling'...

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-mysterious-island-has-emerged-in-a-canadian-lake "Technically, it's more like a raft than an island, with trees and other plants growing on something seemingly buoyant, like driftwood." "The reservoir is managed by BC Hydro, a power company that harnesses...

Rutabaga Paddlesports in Madison, Wisconsin, will have a one-day sale called Bagafest on Saturday, September 5, 2026. There will be discounts ranging from 10% to 60% on everything. They are calling it a "one day mini Canoecopia." https://www.rutabagashop.com/pages/bagafest-2026

"A New Zealand man said his solo paddling adventure through Canada’s wilderness taught him about the Great White North’s majestic landscapes and the beauty of human nature." "Tom Hudson boarded a canoe in the Rockies and, over the course of 216 days, discovered Canadians keen to help him...

Many canoeists have paddled the Green River, which is the Colorado's largest tributary. We have trip reports of the Green on this site. But did you know there is: ". . . an American mystery which has baffled geologists for a century and a half: How did a river carve a path through a mountain...

"More people are getting outside than ever before. Since the pandemic, parks visitation has hit record highs. In 2024, the U.S. National Park Service reported a record 331.9 million visits. North of the border where I am, more than 23 million people visited Parks Canada sites in 2024-2025, up...

Dams have been unfairly and unwisely d*mned, including on this site. Without dams, both the lentic and lotic canoeing waters of the USA would be impoverished. Let's start with extreme lotic waters: whitewater rivers. Without dams, whitewater runs for normal paddlers would be limited to a...

"The best viewing conditions in a decade for the Perseid meteor shower — under a new moon? And a total solar eclipse at the same time? It’s all happening on August 12." "You can expect to see an average of up to 100 meteors per hour during the Perseids' peak." "The Perseids can be seen from...

It depends. "When engineers pull the plug on a dam, the lake behind it does not just quietly fade away. A reservoir is an artificial, still-water (lentic) system, and removing the barrier that holds it back triggers a rapid shift back into a flowing (lotic) river. Of course the water drains...

This is a Yakima Skyline "landing pad", four of which you screw into the roof of vehicles that have factory-drilled screw holes for roof racks. The towers with crossbars can quickly attach and detach from the landing pads. You can see the screw in the middle of this landing pad going into the...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/danube-river-wwii-shipwrecks-mammoth-bones/ https://nypost.com/2026/08/05/world-news/sunken-nazi-ships-woolly-mammoth-bones-surface-as-danube-rivers-water-levels-drop-to-record-low/

This is NOT a topic to debate the virtues of innies vs. outies. I'm just asking about what do you use for an innie if you do use one. I've used an innie (and an outie) for many years with my 3-person backpacking tents that I've used for canoe camping. It is a nice lightweight fabric innie from...

At my age and health situation, virtually all of my canoe camping is now multi-day base camping out of my car. I have a three-person REI tent that I like a lot just for myself, but it gets cramped with gear and literally must be crawled in and out of on hands and knees. That was okay when I was...

It was a "first" for a motley crew of open canoeists from Florida (Marc, Molly and Rascal), Pennsylvania (Bruce, Tim and Maureen), Michigan (Lynn, Raphael and Cooper), Maryland (Russ), and Connecticut (me). We ascended the East Branch of the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks, NY, from a parking...