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Happy Winter Solstice! 🌇🌃
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Yesterday morning on our local chain of lakes. One of those one in a hundred days without a breeze (It never fails on the hottest and most humid days.) We're trying to deflabbify our arms in preparation for our Quetico trip later this month.
Channel from Lower Saint Regis to Black Pond. Adirondacks
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I paddled across the Lower St Regis too, and sailed across the other way and back. Beautiful.
My 8yr old son and I out for an evening paddle.
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Cherish those moments.
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Because they can't all make the trip report... Powitik River, Ontario
Very nice thanks for posting.
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And one that will make the trip report but is worth seeing again. Between Stewart & Stone lakes in the heart of Memaquay country
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Lot happened this year, but not a lot of paddling. This is last year on the NFCT somewhere in New York. 
I've barely been out so far this year but back on April 21st I hit the Cohocton river in western New York in my Dragonfly. River twisted and turned, blow downs, swift water, flat water, snow flurries and a tons of fun. I wound up dumping 3 times this day due mostly to operator error. I will say this it was fun and it humbled me a bit as well.
Working my way around some river blow down that really wasn't passable along the Cohocton river.
Working my way around some river blow down that really wasn't passable along the Cohocton river.
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Bob, is that Lake Winchester? I ask because I seem to see a wind turbine on the far hill.
No, Tyler Lake. It is a cell tower.
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Were you wearing a wetsuit, or drysuit? Curious to hear your experience dumping so early in the year. I'm often out then but stick to flatwater since I don't have either wet or drysuit.
Quick paddle on the local pond before work. Mist + wildfire haze obscuring the sun.
@MyKneesHurt curious to hear how the SOF held up on the NFCT? Did you build it? I imagine a boat takes a lot of use (and abuse?) on a longer trip....
I pulled off the NFCT because the wildfire smoke was so awful last year, so I only did from Old Forge to Lake Champlain on that trip. I did make the canoe, I've done plenty of 100-200mile trips in them (different boats at different times). Made right, you get 80-90% of the performance of a high-end canoe for 40% of the price, plus you built your own boat. You can scrape one on a rock til it leaks but a tube of UV-sealant takes care of it; I've never have any sort of catastrophic failure and I've done some amazingly stupid stuff in them.
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Great info, @MyKneesHurt , thanks for sharing!
Yesterday morning. I woke up around 5a and loaded the canoe in the dark. The salmon are starting to run to the rivers so I brought my fall setup and some coffee. I’m sure hooking a coho or king in a canoe would give me just enough of a ride to wake me up more than the coffee coulld. I watched the sun peek over the trees and figured I’d reel my line in and enjoy it, and thats half the reason why I’m out there in the first place. Peace.
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