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Those were game changers. I've gone to an agawa but I remember having a sven and thinking it was the neatest thing ever.

Just like picking a paddle.

My first beavertail was as tall as I was, that's a mistake you only make once!

I have torn all hell out of my body over the past few decades - broken shoulder, neuropathy, arthritis, carpal tunnel, you name it. The big things that helped me overcome that while canoeing were learning to kneel more or less the whole time, which put my torso into the stroke and reduced...

I have done many miles with a webbing/plastic buckle strap that did the same thing - kept the weight off my ankles and knees - and it was a good solution. Something wider and firmer would only be better, I suspect. We used to call them 'trapper's seats' but I think there's an actual product...

Man, I can't even remember where my keys are.

I would think an ottertail or modified ottertail would be the natural choice. Robert Perkins ("Into the Great Solitude") used paddles that were anorexic ottertails, sassafrass sticks that were no wider than your typical Greenland blade. Some company I can't remember made a paddle called "the...

Glenn, your quote doesn't seem to contradict itself if the blurb is making a case for the price difference between 'epoxy' and 'ecopoxy'. If it's a product made outside of the U.S. then translation may account for the grammatical weirdness. I have heard of Ecopoxy used for table pours but...

That's in fine shape. Happy tuning!

Pretty! Reminds me of a wannigan, woffigan girlfriend I had once.

^ I'll never forget the first footage of Bill Mason I saw, him out fighting through waves on Superior in that red Prospector. I couldn't figure out if he was brave as heck or dumb as a rock. We're in the negatives here in Vermont, my first time being that cold. It's quiet, still, and the snow...

There used to be a knife called the Skookum Bushtool that was all the rage because of a guy named Mors Kochanski. I owned one for a while and sold it, as one does. I'd like to find another one somewhere. We're (the communal tribe in central vermont) enjoying clear 20d days, and sauna-ing with...

I scratched my head over something like this for a long time several years ago. My necessary was not that it was any easier than pitching a tent on land, but that it would allow me to sleep on the water (public right-of-way) without trespassing on private shoreline for a trip down the lower...

"The real problem with humanity is the following - we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology." -E. O. Wilson

@yknpdlr can you tell me what 'lake effect snow' is please? I just pulled into Vermont from Virginia last night - it's colder in VA than VT right now, but I feel like I came into Winter. Plenty of snow on the ground, smoke drifting out of the sauna chimney, turned 4WD on for the first time in...

There's a strong historical precedent for canoe skis. Per Tappan Adney, the Malecite used to drag canoes out on skis before the breakup and hunt muskrats, and I would bet that there are some of his models featuring them online somewhere. I haven't done it, but I would think a tobaggan-type...

I regret to say I don't know yet - it was 65 degrees in Virginia yesterday. They are definitely not cold-weather boots, though. When I lived in Maine I was never without a pair of slip-on traction aids - YakTrax or Kahtoolas. At the risk of too much thread drift, the Kahtoola microspikes are...

I know. I live on a farm, and I've worked construction most of my life. I've never seen anyone on a jobsite with Mucks.

I very much have gone for it. I'm glad you've found a pair of boots that suit you. I've owned several pairs of Mucks, LaCrosse, etc (we call them 'moon boots') and find them utterly miserable to walk in for any distance over maybe a quarter of a mile. If I could find a comfortable pair I'd love...

@Glenn MacGrady Sorry, I assume people are familiar with it because I've spent so much time in them. A 'zero-drop' shoe is a shoe with no elevated heel, so that the foot rests parallel to the ground, much as it would while barefoot. ('Zero-drop' is used interchageably with 'barefoot'.) The...