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  1. VA paddler

    Reservoir Manicouagan QC Aug/Sep 2025

    Ok, so we all know the Toronto bluebirds are playing in the special baseball series or whatever it is - and between the silly games and your addiction to the Circus (which I recognize is a terribly disturbing and distracting clown show at the moment) I understand that your attention is...
  2. VA paddler

    The local canoe club invited to its annual end-of-season paddling event

    Love the guerrilla tape patch job. Glad to see that’s an internationally known solution!
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    Reservoir Manicouagan QC Aug/Sep 2025

    It's certainly an acquired taste. Luckily, my mentors instilled the crack-of-noon paddling discipline into me in my formative years, so Recped and I jived at first blush. Been duck-soup since...
  4. VA paddler

    Mégiscane River, Québec

    Ditto. Definitely looking forward to hearing about more Megiscane misadventures!
  5. VA paddler

    Allegheny Islands State Park, Pittsburgh, PA

    Ah, well. Perhaps best left to our imaginations…
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    Allegheny Islands State Park, Pittsburgh, PA

    No pictures of the two jet skiers….???
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    Is this Old Town worth $250? it has many scratches and well worn gel coat

    In Maine, you only have to register a boat (of any kind) if you are putting an engine on it. It's like a license plate - they want to be able to id the person who was being irresponsible with the motorized craft. Hard to be much of a danger in a canoe. I certainly never registered a...
  8. VA paddler

    Show us pictures of your canoe dogs

    Me and Duke in his prime - on the St John 2006, Bonaventure 2007, New River Gorge 2007
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    Is this Old Town worth $250? it has many scratches and well worn gel coat

    If they send you the serial #, the last two digits will be the year it was produced, and you could probably determine the model with a little research. I'd ask for pictures of the boat sitting right side up, and ask for shots of the hull's interior. It looks like a royalex Tripper, and if so...
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    Is A River Alive?

    Just finished Is A River Alive? , recently published by Robert Macfarlane. He seeks to answer the title’s question from a philosophical perspective by traveling to rivers in Ecuador, India, and Quebec and immersing himself in three different rivers’ stories. Fascinating & thoroughly enjoyable...
  11. VA paddler

    Pocket Coffee

    Have always just stirred coffee into a pot of boiling water, let it steep a few minutes, then thump the pot on the ground, give it a minute to settle, and its coffee. Simple as can be.
  12. VA paddler

    Reservoir Manicouagan QC Aug/Sep 2025

    Food is love, brother.
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    Reservoir Manicouagan QC Aug/Sep 2025

    You could have boiled the bird carcass down and made a nice chicken soup stock to go with the tiny ziploc bag of pasta I'm sure was floating around in your supplies...
  14. VA paddler

    American Whitewater Accident Report - January - July 2025

    The St Croix is bumpy - lots of rock dodging. But a 'long' rapid there is maybe 100m - not very long, and it's typically pretty shallow, and barely classifies as C2 water. I suspect the head injury was the culprit.
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    Reservoir Manicouagan QC Aug/Sep 2025

    Clocks, schedules, timetables.... Recped dismissed all such nuisances once he had his chicken and apple pie in hand.
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    Field sharpening

    I’m with Alan, a $15 double-sided diamond stone that slides into its handle resides in the kitchen set. Cooky needs a sharp knife, and his sous-chefs and dishwashers can be a bit careless!
  17. VA paddler

    The Maine Guide Paddle

    Not offering any opinion here, just evidence, neither for nor against. My wife’s great grandfather was the owner operator of Camp Caribou on the western shore of North Bay in Moosehead Lake back in the teens, 20s 30s and 40s - near a place on the map called Ogontz, though for a ‘place’, there...
  18. VA paddler

    Two days on the N. Branch, Potomac

    I spent my formative years ('94-'20) in the Shenandoah Valley, and the forks of the Potomac and the Cheat were our playground, always just over the mountain, ready to paddle after any sizeable rain or good snowmelt. If you get the chance, run Smoke Hole Gorge (overnight trip and tricky to catch...
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    Back to the crater (this time for real?) Manicouagan Reservoir

    Awww. Methinks you and Fuddle are gonna miss yer ne’er-do-well mates, but we’ll be checkin’ on ya from Elon’s eye-in-the-sky. I’ll be sure to send ya a couple “cmon, you’re burnin daylight” rise&shine messages. At least this trip should be ice free. Be careful - you’re not 70 anymore!
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    Megiscane Misery & The Clash: Trip Report spring 2025

    Ok, not my best work, but it paints the picture.
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