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A post in a thread several days back made me think of an image or two in this slide sequence one of the other participants took of my wife and I on the Rogue River in Southwest Oregon years back (Late June, 2006), one of the few runs on that river that we paddled together OC2. I no longer...

My first run in the Grand Canyon was in 1990 paddling a Mad River Kevlar ME. The wind (of course, upriver) was so strong in some sections that, like Glenn upthread, I was sideways on a low brace to the downstream water side, which was "upstream" on the wind side! I was often being blown slowly...

If anyone is into outdoor fiction, an author I like is a writer from Michigan who died in 2018, leaving some 60+ books behind. Not all are outdoor though. His name is Wes Boyd and he has a Website at: https://www.spearfishlaketales.com where you can read all his works for free, though copies...

There's a thread going here on a canoe trip in Yellowstone that went bad, but here's something similar where it turned out okay. It's a long, windswept trip that happened back in 1987. Unfortunately it was paddled in one of them hated k*y*ks, but it is still a crazy trip worth mentioning...

In another thread I mentioned the works of R. M. Patterson, most famous as the author of his adventures and exploration on the Nahanni River in 1927, which I'm sure many members here know of. I did a cursory search for his name here on CanoeTripping.net and turned up very little, though I could...