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When I bought my carbon innegra crusier from Bill last year, I told him would like to use an existing wood yoke width already sized that I also use on other solo canoes that accept its original clamped nuts. That would not work in the cruiser. Bill included his bolt assembly and knobs with...

Assuming communication is available, that idea is not much different than witnessing a drunk swerve all over a highway. Call someione in charge, dont make matters worse for yourself. if It was me, I would monitor the canoe's activity as far as I could and prepare for a possible rescue.

I have had my BSA guide students and scouts ask this very question, possibly alternatively using watertight floating bags. I call attention to a famous swimming bear on Lows Lake in the Adirondacks, affectionately known as "yellow-yellow" from her DEC attached ear tags. For several seasons, Y-Y...

Nice high elevation shots of clouds below. Reminds me of when I was working at the USAF AMOS observatory on Maui. We could often see the 10,000' triangular shaped mountain profile projected on the ocean to the east or west as it "eclipsed" the rising or setting sun. I have a few photos stashed...

I have been on the instructor staff for the BSA National Camping School's high adventure trek leader guide training program for 30 years. The class certifies as trusted trek guides, typically college age students who would like to have a job at an Adirondack BSA resident summer camp leading...

There are certainly areas of the Adirondacks where this is true. When you encounter such a magnetic anomaly, it usually does not last for very far. That is when you switch to natural backup clues to navigate, sun, stars, watch cloud movement, terrain association with your map, etc. It is a...

My canoe race partners and I for many years have enjoyed paddling the "Cannonball-90", completing the entire Adirondack 90-mile race route all within a single 24 hour period. We like to begin in Old Forge at the stroke of midnight so that we finish about 18-19 hours later while the sun is...

Part 1: it was never my intent to besmirch any religious faith. Just to point out some strange legends (to someone who has grown up with deep study in mathematics the physical sciences) . Astronomy has a long history of finding the “truth” regardless of cultural or religious beliefs, some of...

and smoke payote and get high. No thanks, I'd much rather get high on learning and observing how the universe works.

The original forecast from 3 days prior said that my brother's cottage on the Lake Ontario shore north of Watertown, would be the best place to be. Sunday was a bluebird clear day, deep blue sky horizon to horizon. Bummer. Then a pesky warm front developed and traveled faster than expected from...

Your experience would have been 1000x different and so much of a better lifelong memory had you got into the 100% zone. That final tenth of a percent of light from the solar disk is still like a bright flashlight shining upon the entire visible landscape.

The First Aid instructor we sometimes use for my SAR team certs is a professional contractor working for Fort Drum NY army base as a combat medic instructor. A former combat medic himself, he has all kinds of war stories to tell during his teaching that go way beyond the standard civilian...

Here's the best I could do through a high sometimes tinner than other times full cloud deck. If only it could have been yesterday with bright blue sky horizon to horizon. From three Mile Bay on Lake Ontario NW of Watertown.

Yes, street lights will come on. It is always best to get the heck out of town for many reasons.

Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack for Quick, Easy, and Healthy Eating on the Trail by Linda Yaffe Really gets you into home dehydrating good stuff. Some may sound a little strange at first, but it is a good lead into what you can do on your own. Hawk...

I have a Swift Cruiser 15.8 that I bought last year. I met Bill at a demo day in Saranac Lake last spring and again in Old Forge a month later where I decided to get one I had a couple of speicial reaquests with the seat and carry yoke. Bill had the boat built and personally delivered it to my...

I felt it in Forestport at 1025. More like the almost familiar sound of the snow sliding off my camp roof as it has been doing lately. But definitely something quite strange about it. My wife, at home15 miles away said the house shook like jelly and it was loud. I remember several years ago...

But I will cocntinue to say that it isn't just the 2.5%, it is a lot more like an infiinite difference if you have ever experienced it. Anything short of 100%, even 99.9% might as well be 0% as far as the difference between that much partial and full total is concerned. Again, it is your own...

That certainly is your choice, but a very few miles travel north to gain an extra 2.5 % will yield a memory experience and story to tell for the rest of your life. Living in upstate NY, surely you can find an isolated quiet rural road that will take you there. You will never reget the small effort.

I've been hoping this since my first trips in the region in the late 1960's and early 1970s. I actually did one time make the trip from Lows to Stillwater with my Hornbeck, hopping via connections (mostly) all on state land. Very wild and beautiful country.