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Comparative activity levels Based on recent forum activity in late 2025, Canoetripping.net appears to have higher recent activity in its canoe forums than Paddling.com. While both sites remain highly relevant, their activity levels and areas of focus have diverged. Feature...

Tom, I'm not clear on this because I am not informed on hit & switch racing subtleties. Your push-pull leg technique heels the hull away from the paddle side, but then heels the hull to the other side when you switch paddle sides? So, you are essentially rocking the canoe left and right every 6...

She was a mile off shore in the Peace River. No PFD. Reports don't mention booze or drugs, but I wouldn't be surprised. News report: https://www.winknews.com/news/woman-rescued-after-treading-water-for-12-hours-in-charlotte-harbor/article_073d5187-98ec-4e53-934f-8360a8950f24.html Video...

"The calendar page turned to July 11th, 1925 . . . . It was a hot, sticky, bug-infested afternoon in the Barren Lands, 500km from the nearest settlement. Bullock and Hornby kept pushing in their canoes down the Hanbury River. Exhausted, severely malnourished, they decided to lessen their load."...

On October 5-9, 2025, I paddled various parts of the Pine Barrens prior to the Pine Barrens Functional Freestyle Canoeing Workshop, being held right now from Oct. 10-12. Included among the paddlers on various days were seven USCA Freestyle instructors, including CTN members @Marc Ornstein...

"Traditional solo flatwater paddling was the order of the day at the first-ever Style Canoeing Rendezvous East, held over five days in mid-July 2025 at Murphy’s Point Provincial Park near Perth, Ontario." "The gathering featured a sequence of paddling clinics offered by legendary instructors...

This is a fall foliage day trip on the north end of Candlewood Lake, which is the largest lake in Connecticut (a reservoir). The north end has long arms, islands, forested hills, and is relatively unpopulated. The trip will start at the beach parking lot of the Sherman Town Park (74 Sawmill Rd...

"This is the terrifying moment two couples from the UK and the US cheated death when a rampaging elephant flipped their safari canoes and struck one of the women with its trunk." "They were being poled 'gondola style' through the shallow waters of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, on Saturday. "...

"Series of video clips, mostly in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, of canoers using their freestyle paddling skills to gracefully and efficiently maneuver tight turns and avoid objects in the water." There are only a few days left to register for the 2025 Pine Barrens Functional Freestyle Workshop...

In 2011, I bought a Nemo Losi 3P tent, which had won lots of awards and which I liked very much for solo canoe tripping. However, I hadn't used the tent in 10 years. When I looked at it for a trip this summer, I found the waterproof coating was degraded, the glued-on Velcro ties under the...

Bugs get into tents a variety of ways. I'm mainly talking about mosquitoes and black flies. What techniques or products to you use to: (1) keep them out, (2) kill them if they get in, and (3) tolerate them if you can't kill them all? As to (3), I can't sleep in warm weather all bundled up with...

"The text sent to Cook County’s 911 dispatch center said a person in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was literally in flames." https://www.elyecho.com/article/3534,search-and-rescue-receives-multiple-false-alerts-from-satellite-enabled-iphones-in-bwca Sounds more like human than...

"Rutabaga paddlesports owner Darren Bush announced that he will close the Madison, Wisconsin, paddling shop at the end of the year to pursue a calling as a hospice chaplain. Bush will continue to own and operate Canoecopia, the largest consumer gathering in the paddlesports business." "'Some of...

Collinsville Canoe in Connecticut is having a Bill Swift day on Sunday, September 21, 2025, and all in-stock Swift boats will be on sale. https://www.collinsvillecanoe.com/swift-canoe--kayak-demo-days---collinsville-canoe--kayak.htm Here's the in-stock page...

On Sunday, September 7, 2025, the NW CT group from this site met for our second day trip. It was on Twin Lakes in the the northwest corner of Connecticut, which are connected by a double-bridged channel and then drain down Schenob Brook. The paddlers were: Alex (@Tsuga8) in his new-to-him...

I believe I've paddled all the wetlands on this list, at least insofar as their names appear on maps or have been told to me by locals. But I'm not sure I can define and differentiate them. Can you help? Swamp Bayou Vly (a fairly common word in the Adirondacks) Marsh Bog Fen Muskeg Mire...

"Nothing says wilderness adventure like previewing your tent pad on a smartphone." "These days, it’s foolish to travel without reservations. Maybe the same is true for wilderness tripping. The go-where-the-wind-takes-you mentality has faded, a relic of the past, like John Wayne and his horse."...

The first NW CT bootleg day trip was held on Sunday, August 31, 2025. The trip lauched at Pond Brook, down to Lake Lillinonah (the dammed Housatonic River), and up the Shepaug River to lunch at Roxbury Falls. In attendance were Scott (@ScottS) in a dark green Wenonah Solo Plus, Keith...

Has anyone used the new ZRE "Revolution" paddle blade? If so, do you have an opinion as to how it compares to the Power Surge blade and original Z blade? The ZRE webpage says about this blade: "Our newest and most efficient blade to date designed by Bob Zaveral and tested by Serge Corbin. The...

On Sunday, September 7, 2025, I will be circumnavigating Twin Lakes—Washining Lake and Washinee Lake (meaning "laughing water" and "smiling water" in Mahican)—which are in the extreme northwest corner of Connecticut. The lakes are interconnected by a channel. This trip should be very accessible...