Recent content by yknpdlr

Congrats on the new Blackwater. You will love it. This was my second season with mine, which I absolutely love. Fast and highly stable, much more stable than my PB Shadow, both with a higher than standard custom elevated seat. Even without any rocker, it turns tight in buoy turns with an...

After my daughter certified to work as a camp waterfront director at BSA National Camping School, the first thing she did upon arrival at her BSA camp was to inspect all of the PFDs. Those that did not pass or were marginally serviceable were cut in half with a box cutter so they would need to...

Other than my Hornbecks, each of my solo canoes was ordered with a 1.5" riser above the highest available stock high seat. All are paddled with a single blade paddle, single side. I had to argue with Joe Moore when he did not want to do it with my PB Shadow because he has had three previous...

Looks like the Paddlesports trainer that I use during winter months. Beginning around Christmas time I start with 20 minutes at 60 spm, increasing to an hour as time goes on. it is a good machine for building up power strokes and timing. Unfortunately it does not replicate doing buoy turns very...

Is that a profile of a bison on photo #2? I was working a SAR incident a month ago in the Adirondacks. i have never seen so many and so many varieties of mushrooms as I was walking through then. Unfortunately, no time to stop to photo them while on the search. Wish I knew off hand which ones...

Right. My focus is race training. I strive for a smooth quiet catch to a powerful initial stroke where it is most effective for the first 16-18 inches followed by a very slight back off to reach my hip, then a quick twist of the paddle to a slide slip out exit to a feathered recovery in air. On...

i haven't paddled the Yukon River races in a while. My last Yukon River Quest 440 mile race was in 2017, my fifth race in my series of Yukon races, including two 1000 milers. As my Yukon team has aged (I am 75 this year and am not the oldest crew member), we tend to focus more on local closer to...

Campsites on Grass pond: Site 29,with old logging trail to the abandoned jeep road and map/compass bushwhack up the ridgeline to the summit of GPM. Site 30, at a small bay with a trail past the privy to the jeep trail below the trailless bushwhack (90 degress mag) to the rock face exposure...

You have stumbled upon what was once a private resort called Robinwood Park. The last time I was there you could still see what was once a paved tennis court and remains of many structures including the main lodge plot with an old dock down a slope into the water and a separate road to a sandy...

i believe what you thought was the "Grass Pond" photo was acctually a photo into Tomar Pond with Tomar mountain. Not much of interest in that bay, Grass Pond is on the opposite (Northwest) side of Lows, much more scenic as Jm indicated. Before the Bog Riiver Flow was dammed and flooded to form...

When my wife was pit crewing my Yukon River races, shw had the opportunity to sit with First Nation residents while waiting for us to pass. Most have never learned to swim, unlesss they attended school in Whitehorse which has a large athletic complex with a pool. The silt in the river...

ten years ago. It was fun. Grand daughter is now 25, she just raced in the Adirondack 90 Mile Canoe Classic race with me two weekends ago. the last time she was in a canoe was when she was 8 and paddled a 12 mile race with me which we won. Finished the 90 second in our class :)

i wonder what brand of PFD they are wearing?

it was a quiet day,while hiking along Loch Ness in Scotland with my grandkids. And then suddenly, there it was! I see it in the distance, getting closer now. Hey kids, come here, look quick