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A paddle is a tool. Use the right tool for the job. I am an accomplished paddler of all sorts, a traditionalist but not a purist. While I much prefer the feel of a fine single blade, there are conditions where I pull out the double blade, mostly when grunting into a stiff headwind or making...

I've many miles of firsthand experience in a Bell Wildfire, which is said to be the same canoe, though I can't personally confirm it. I'm 6'0" 180 pounds and tend to travel light so my largest total load may have been 225 pounds. I've paddled extensively, with and without gear, on moderate sized...

My only relevant experience has been in the Osprey. I'm 6'0", 180 pounds, and tend to pack on the light side. I found the Osprey to be fast enough, plenty maneuverable, and more capacity than I would ever need. I also happen to love its lines and tumblehome. I ended up selling mine to a very...

There are several lodges along the Denali Highway. The McClaren River Lodge is a great place too. The one I mentioned earlier is the Alpine Creek Lodge. Monel

Day 3 finds us again floating casually down the Delta, it widens out, slows down, more flatwater than quickwater, as if it were impounded. In actuality it is. Eureka Creek, a glacial river, enters on river left, and the outwash delta pushes the Delta far up against the bluff on river right...

A fresh day, almost too hot out, and it smelled fishy at the outlet of the last lake into the Delta River proper. I broke out my little spinning rig, tied on a yellow Rooster Tail (I had already swapped out that nasty treble hook for a single, clinched the barb too) and promptly caught 5...

The story of a long weekend in Alaska. Should be enough to whet your appetite but not quite enough to obviate your own research before embarking on it. The Tangle Lakes - Delta River, a National Wild and Scenic River, is one the classic interior canoe routes in Alaska. It's got a bit of...

2006 Prius, 80k miles, about to get a 1.5" lift, trailer hitch, stiffer springs and sway bars. Royalex Bell Wildfire, nuff said. Taken off the Denali Highway at Windy Creek with Clearwater Mountains in the background. Fresh of paddling down the Tangle Lakes Delta River route. Monel

G'Day VernAK. Turns out I'm planning on floating the Delta from Tangle Lakes down to the highway in July. Looking forward to some grayling to grace my grill. I'll get in touch and look you up along the way. BWCA66, Soldotna is Swan Lakes / Swanson River canoe country. What sort of boats do you...

Came across these the other day, bought one, was so impressed I added another for a friend on his birthday. These things are sweet. A small shop makes them in the Selkirk Mountains in Northeastern Washington State, stainless, superb welds, great designs, very light but durable, perfectly...

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Good Day, I've been paddling some thing or another since I was 8 years old and won the canoe race in an aluminum Grumman at YMCA Camp Douglass in Michigan. Got my first boat in the late 1970's, a 14' glass canoe from Bart Hauthaway, raced it on the Kenduskeag, wrong boat for racing but also...