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Earthquake, eclipse, cicadas...I'm getting my rapture go-bag ready. It's definitely rapture time.

Nice paddle. Trust the oil, don't varnish the blade.

The canon. When you're outside, an eyepiece is best. A real camera also let me zoom, hold a focus, take a still, adjust the exposure, with one hand at any moment. I tried, but I just never liked the GoPro. Here's my first helmet cam - I later modified it for the larger canon sx30hs - had to run...

After making a series of videos using a canon sx30HS (mid level point and shoot with a good zoom and full camera adjustments), I tried a GoPro. It was clearly good for action videos and it was waterproof, but I did not like the image format and the limited camera adjustments. It is always easier...

I live in CT. I've been canoeing all winter in the Housatonic and Connecticut River and their tributaries. I haven't come across ice that would slow a canoe.

The geology of that whole thing is mind numbing. For instance, the river channel predates Manastash Ridge by a lot of millions of years. Manastash is a fold, the river just kept nibbling at it as it grew.. When we left the canyon, the river was about 8 inches deep, 30 yards wide - uniform depth...

I searched around and that particular box doesn't seem to be available. I've had it for 10 years. It's nothing special, just a stiff hinged box with a rubber seal and a hefty latch. I glued a block of closed cell foam inside with a slots for an extra battery and memory card. Glued some cordura...

I use a Canon point and shoot with a good zoom. It is about the size of an SLR with a standard lens. I have a waterproof box that I found at Home Depot for about $15. It has long outlasted the more expensive Pelican that I started with. The box is on a lanyard connected to the thwart, before I...

Yakima River in eastern Washington. Most people there probably think of it as a big irrigation canal and rarely paddle anything other than 20 miles of the Yakima Canyon. We went all the way to the Columbia - 155 miles. Although it wasn't ever remote, it maintained a feeling of wildness. It...

If you read the journals, the L&C expedition was shooting 3 or 4 Grizzly bears each week while they were in eastern Montana. Many of the tributary mouths have naturally shifted position since then as well.

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The whole idea of a canoe is that it is not perfect for anything. Canoes are not the fastest, not the most seaworthy, not the lightest etc. Canoes are the jack of all trades - you can carry it, you can paddle big water, lakes, chains of lakes, rivers, tiny little creeks, or swamps. You can load...

Culturally modified tree - CMT. I did some archaeology field work in Washington. This drift log that has been washed out of the bank is a Western Red Cedar with a quite probable peel scar. The inner bark of WRC's is premium basketry material. Native Americans harvested it by taking a long strip...

agreed

I grew up in Minnesota. I still want to paddle the Mississippi from Itasca to the Twin Cities.

If it was me and it was nearby. I'd buy the boat and do the fix.

Most of the time, water is soft. If it feels hard, then it is 32 or below.

Thank you!

That storm sent a lot of water down the Connecticut River. It even topped the July storm flood level. My friends in Vermont also had flooding instead of snow. I think we had our first below freezing night earlier this week.