Recent content by yknpdlr

For many years, I taught land navigation to young wilderness guides in training. Some got it, others struggled (a lot). There was no greater feeling of pride than to teach proper procedures and then to observe a student under test do it properly and successfully and to lead a group to a...

I have always spent my time bushwhacking mainly between remote western Adirondack area ponds, with or without a Hornbeck in my company and the lowland ridges in the Pepperbox, Five Ponds, Pigeon Lake, Ha-De-Ron-Dah, and West Canada Lake wilderness areas. I am not a peak bagger by any means and...

For 50 years I wandered in remote Adirondack wilderness areas, mostly far from any trail with only a map, compass, a standard wrist watch, and a bit of experience. My wife has a written itinerary and local DEC forest rangers who I knew, knew generallly where I was going, although I often made...

Sounds like a great adventure. My son has a drone videographer business, I have sent you a connection email. I just bought my first drone for Christmas and am studying for my FAA certification, but am a long way from being a videographer.

A married couple team paddler friend of mine have a GRB Monarch with wood gunwales that they race and apparently like very much. I was in the market to get a nicely performing stable boat for my daughter a few years ago and I knew that my good friend Brian at Mac's Canoe Livery had one like it...

Visited Scotland a few years ago with my wife, and grown son with his 3 kids. Spent a day roaming the famous Culloden battle field trails near Inverness. How the Scots could ever have run through that thick heather and woody brushy low growth wearing kilts, while wielding swords and other...

i used snaps on my hornbeck wood gunwale in the photo I posted above. But snaps can become difficult to use, especiallly if they get dirty or in sand. Separately, my team installed home made nylon covers with velcro on two woodstrip cedar voyageur canoes. glueing the loop strip part to just...

I made one myself for my Hornbeck, fited around my backpack in the sstern. It works well to keep out rain, paddle drips, and wave spray in bigger waters that I have crossed (including Lake Champlain). i used foam noodles with a dowel stiffener inside to make end water spill dams. We also made...

I’ve been studying the regs and sample test questions to get my FAA 14 CFR part 107 drone pilot’s license for the past month, hopefully before spring snow melt. I just ordered my first pro-consumer high level sUAS drone. Why? Several reasons. At my camp lake, a small non-motors Association lot...

Let me guess how you knew that. :rolleyes:

I used Google Earth to create and plot my Yukon River race route, both the YRQ 440 mile race and the 1000 mile race. Having passed through on five races I was able to modify and correct my route for best and fastest current and distance passage around shoals, islands, shortcuts and other...

iI have somewhere in the area of more than 300 USGS topographic maps, many that I inherited from a disbanded SAR team, others and duplicates I personally bought when they ran $4.50-$5 or less (now $15 or more). Mostly of the Adirondacks and adjacent areas of NY State. A few are from other...

I believe most racers will use a 12 degree bent.

Another landmark navigation book is Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel You can't accurately navigate and map long distances (across wide oceans or open lands) without a good way to determine your longitude. Your...

The average American who cannot swim 100 yards in a pool is not the most likely person to to find themselves in a situation where they are intentionally outdoors in winter wilderness conditions. As one myself who spends a great deal of time outdoors in all seasons, I believe that learning all I...