Odyssey

Aslowhand and I drove for several hours into the French part of Switzerland to paddle on Lac de Joux. The paddle in to this favorite...

We launched from Kanu Klub Thun put-in. I also had a borrowed life jacket from them. It is the most comfortable and secure life jacket...

[Admin note: I have moved the following two posts by @Erica into their own thread in this forum from the Photo of the Day thread.] For...

funny story about spam- one time we were snowshoeing into an area looking for a lost lake that even the locals didn't know existed, it...

I have to challenge the idea that a skeg will automatically add efficiency to a canoe. I call on my sailing dinghy experience for this...

No need for a skeg or rudder on a canoe. Maybe it could be useful if you only paddle lakes for the rest of your life. I built a sea...

Many of us here own multiple canoes, for a variety of reasons. I'd like to think it is because each canoe does something better than the...

I'm told the riffles and rapids on Lawyers Creek are hard to read and mistakes can be very costly to deal with.

Not every relic can be recovered. We have indigenous grandchildren, one of whom is doing her masters degree in indigenous studies etc...

You mention things like optimum prismatic coefficient, Swede form, asymmetrical rocker, Kevlar, carbon fiber and CAD, all things that...

Aslowhand and I paddled on Lake Brienz today. The silt from the glacier melt gives the water a turquoise color. The weather was perfect...

Our 115L Pro is still going strong. Very comfortable and huge. I see they're 120L now, which can be a better thing. They do seem to...

I'd never heard of those paper hanky things until I started dating a girl whose mother insisted on table etiquette and stuff. I...

Um, the first ingredient is a POUND of butter? The "sauce" is pure butter with a little garlic powder and celery salt? Holy heart attack...

This a typical easy cheap plastic bandage treating a festering wound. While it helps, a little, to cover the unsightliness it does...