Recent content by yknpdlr

Yeah , but the Yukon was after more than 20 of my Air Force research trips to the observatory on Maui, I finally took wife and kids there for a long two week project. Been there, done that. Had to go north next.

That is because, just like when you approach a 4-way intersection stop on the road, the car that approaches on your right has right of way, therefore the red light will face you, the driver on its left, you must stop for the red light car. A car simultaneously approaching from the right ...

Here was my ploy when I was invited to join a Yukon River race team. "Sure, would love to, guys, but I'll have to check with the home base first".... "Hey Babe, I know you like to travel to new and unusual places, how would you like to visit the far north next summer?" I know you like to tell me...

One Square Mile of Hope, a cancer fundraiser held multiple times on Adirondack's 4trh Lake, Inlet, NY. 99% kayaks - 3150 of them by registration count for a Guinness record. No way would I want to be part of that mess, which I consider incredibly dangerous. Just imagine a capsize, likely...

In addition to the engineering cleverness of Yellow-Yellow described above, there are others in the Adirondacks. "Cliff", a bear in the High Peaks region was known to steal backpacks and deliver them to his favored spot at a rocky cliff before destroying them. In some regions you are advised not...

That's what you get with cheap materials, unskilled manufacture, near zero necessary skill set to operate, and the generational demand for instantaneous give it to me now.

I have many hundreds of canoe miles carrying canoes overhead with bow tie downs, a 34' voyageur, 23' C4, and a few different solos (only one at a time) on the roof of my 2024 Subaru Forester Wilderness. Never had a problem with the Eyesight system behaving properly any more than otherwise when...

Lke the Hornbeck and similar ilk (no offense, as I have 3 Hornbecks), they are normally propelled by kayak paddles, which is not much of a meaningful transition jump from kayaking to real single blade canoe paddllng.

Site 18 always catches the worst brunt of the west wind. Because of that it is a very desirable site during bug season, not so much in Autumn strong chilly winds. If you had not figured it out yet, if you stay close to the north (right) side as you come around the sand bar extending from Lookout...

Having said all the above, which is mostly relative to bow paddle racing in voaygeur and C4 canoes, I also by necessity and favor being more of a solo paddler. All season I paddle in one of several of my solo canoes as my primary way to train before the 90 miler. Most of my race partners are not...

I began family canoe tripping in a 17' Grumman in the early 1970's with my wife, two small kids, and a dog. Since none of the others had much of any canoe experience, I stern paddled to get us where we needed to go. But they couldn't always go so I learned to solo paddle that long aluminum can...

An abandoned loon egg. it's a long story, but when I discovered it after it had obviously rolled out of a nest perched on a mud mound, I contacted the Adirondack Loon Conservancy and was told that if it had been there for two days or more, it would not be viable. I should collect it and freeze...

But they don't test for determined red squirrels. A few years ago, I saw a Garcia, the heavy black bear resistant canister, with a corner of the rounded bottom edge completely chewed through to the inner contents. It was rented from the HPIC at Heart Lake. The renter admitted that he watched a...

i was in the Air Force TDY as part of a Tanker Task Force at Eielson AFB over December-January 1975-1976. We landed (coming from my base in Ohio) in a ground temperature of -56F. two of our four engines had to be shut down as soon as we were firmly down because even at idle throttle at that...

Paddling alone with no other boats in sight in a starting field of 80 or more boats on the Yiukon River races, hopefully with the majority of the pack behind us, is certainly an experience to be had. When we log upwards of 160 miles/day, it can be a lonely but a good and rewarding feeling to own...