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John Winters' comments on the Osprey... no sure what his criteria are for "most severe conditions". His comments might be about twenty years old and earlier than that Bill Mason was paddling Superior in something more traditional. IIRC Lightjay (Jay Morrison) reported broaching problems in an...

Yes, Mister Red Canoe's sideways photo does put one a little off balance. Will look at it again tonight, Saturday night, maybe after a beverage, for any possibly magnified effects on the mind. So, to add more to this thread during the winter slowdown, here's another photo from the Toronto...

Very nice, really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the rest.

Great sunset view, beats being in cyberspace anytime. Maybe more appropriate for the gloom and doom thread, still, this is a photo of the day... sort of.... watching the southward movement of the setting sun on the horizon at sunset until the solstice when the most southerly point is reached...

Over the years I've saved various sizes of wide-mouth glass jars to keep leftover paint and varnish when the original can gets less than half full and the air inside might cause some surface skin to form... pickle jars, relish jars, olive jars, all sizes so the contents fill the jar full, with...

After a long wait, finally got to the front of the line at the library website, borrowed the book and started reading through Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson... lots of interesting historical side details besides those related to Radisson's life. For instance, the history...

Early November vid by Jonathan Kelly, closes out the season with solitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM6k-WQnsWQ

Gotta agree that schools and time spent in the classroom and school yard have changed a lot... in my day, the worst that happened was kids getting the strap from the principal, or getting tongues frozen to the iron fence. Now it's shootings, unwanted sex ed, evolution vs creation, climate change...

School boards are probably getting nervous about parents and lawsuits... if you google "how to sue a school" there will be websites describing how to get started and what to do. The lawsuits often are reactions to bullying and claims of teachers abusing students. The most expensive one I've...

Ralph Bice, in his book "Along The Trail In Algonquin Park" had trouble sleeping next to rapids... his remedy was to sleep with his head pointing upstream, feet downstream... IIRC he also wrote that it really worked. Getting on with the stories... on one port during a very humid spring day, it...

I was once paddling upstream on a small river in the dark (although there was a shadowy full moon rising) and in a pond-like widening, couldn't find the narrow channel out to proceed further upstream... even though I had paddled the same familiar stretch downstream during the day. After paddling...

YW... I forgot to add Bill Mason's Song of the Paddle.... also NFB and from the seventies with that sense of heartfelt back-to-nature that was going on at the time. It includes sweetie Becky Mason at a young age with the Mason family canoeing a river and the Superior coastline...

Scratchypants, Yes, I'm glad that somebody else has recognized that sound... very strange at dusk since the ducks fly low overhead and can't be seen or are flying too fast. It's a strange sound from something whipping through the air very fast and would catch the attention of any UFO chaser...

Something that's worked with material that's hard to cut cleanly with scissors is placing the material flat on a piece of plywood, pressing down hard with a straightedge along the intended cut line and then cutting along the edge with a very sharp X-acto knife. The straightedge clamping down on...

... some remarkable storm scenes in this award-winning vid, including storms in sunset and sunrise light. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagszCmJLpU PS.... more photos and info on gear, technique...

The Revenant meme generator... via Imgflip Meme Generator

There is some reference in this thread, graphite epoxy exposed for years in the sun turned out to be UV-resistant enough... myself, I've avoided graphite since it's black and is said to heat up in the sun so much that the epoxy softens. IIRC, graphite-bottomed canoes left out in the sun became...

Micah, the voyageurs used to travel on L Superior in open canoes... looking forward to reading Duct Tape description and TR. And so did Bill Mason, you've probably seen his film Waterwalker... there is a scene with him swamping in cold water and swimming to shore...

Holy drunk and disorderly rodents... mice are capable of drinking that much wine... I can recall wishing those mice would eff the hell off as well, esp when I felt their cold, damp feet on my face. And since they will pee and take a dump almost anywhere, that makes that sensation even more...

Paddling L Superior in a canoe equipped with spray cover... rough water included. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esxyiq3kCLI