Recent content by yknpdlr

Yeah, but as I understand it, even with the "hike safe card", if you are negligent or careless in the accepted standards of "hiking safe", there is no guarantee that you will be completely let off the hook from any billing or legal consequences. (who is the judge?) I have often wondered about...

Although I have not completed a full NFCT beginning to end, I can confirm Chris’s good words about the organization and the dedicated people involved. I have briefly interacted with Chris and a few others, much more with Karrie, Marthe, Jordanna, Mike (also back when he was with the enterprise...

From the NYSDEC: New York State does not require a paid sticker, decal, or stamp for general watercraft to combat aquatic invasive species (AIS). Instead, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) enforces mandatory Clean. Drain. Dry. regulations and self-issued...

Stripperguy is absolutely correct about NYS boating law. At least one state campground I know of that is located on a lake (8th lake) will allow free entry to pass through the campground if you only plan to launch a canoe to go fishing (it is no secret that 8th Lake has very good trout...

As I believe I have stated before, I very much like my paddlesports canoe paddle attachment on a Concept 2 erg machine. Before I found that machine at the Syracuse canoe nationals, I had a Waterrower machine that I used as a paddler rather than a straight pull grip. I got it in the fall to train...

So sad. Gene and brother john made the woodstrip canoe I raced in 3 of my Yukon River races and several Adirondack 90 milers. Gene was always an Adirondack 90-miler. His last race was 3-4 years ago before he could no longer participate. So sad to hear of his passing. Had I known in time I would...

Do the middle seats slide side to side? Those two big guys in the middle don't look like there is much spare room to slide for a better paddle angle. Try a voyageur class canoe one day. If you like the C4, you will like that one as well. I have raced both voyageur and C4 class canoes in the...

During our instruction and certifying BSA High Adventure trek guides, each guide student must demonstrate deep flat water tandem capsize rescue. It is easiest to do with a rescue canoe assist, as BSA treks will always have multiple canoes. It is fairly easy to talk the rescuers and rescuees...

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, as 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...