Photo of the day

[Woodpuppy]

Sneaky lil dudes dressed in green…

 

[Bob B.]

Went paddling with my wife today. Gov Dodge State Park in Dodgeville WI. I enjoy spending time with her like this.

Jake and I can no longer keep up with her and her new paddle!

 

[Bob B.]

After a bit Jake need to move about, so he went fishing ... pointing fish

We made it home and after breakfast worked together on the yard and walked Jake a solid 3 mile woods romp. Pretty good day.

 

[Pseudonym]

Rainy Sunday paddle for me and two of my boys, in a tidal creek at high tide. It was their first solo paddle and they took to it like ducks.

 

[Jmharrick]

Ochre Pond, St. Regis Canoe Area, Adirondacks, NY 6/9/2024

 

[kona]

A small lake in Minnesota

 

[Alan Gage]

View attachment 141785
A small lake in Minnesota

What does your paddle say?

Alan

 

[kahel]

Backlund,

Keith Backlund​

Keith Backlund, Paddle Engineer, Dies at Age 60 - Paddling Life

A master woodworker who constructed magnificent canoe and kayak paddles, Keith Backlund died on the evening of October 25 at the age of 60.

paddlinglife.com

 

[kona]

What does your paddle say?

Alan

It is a Backlund paddle.

 

[Roybrew]

Sunrise Norris Lake Tn

 

[mwaalen]

Schoolcraft River. Near source of Mississippi. Went only about a mile and ended up in a trap of 12' cat tails. Short day.

 

[Gamma1214]

Sure was pretty while it lasted, eh?

 

[mwaalen]

Sure was pretty while it lasted, eh?

Incredible

 

[Dirigo]

mwaalen, You have captured my canoeist heaven. I now know my blessed verdant destination.

Thank you,

Dirigo

 

[mwaalen]

You have captured my canoeist heaven. I now know my blessed verdant destination.

Thanxsomuch Dirigo but I take no credit as this type of scenery is everywhere around me. Get out of town 2 miles, point-&-shoot. Then swat mosquitos and pick wood ticks the entire trip home.

 

[lowangle al]

Here are some of a "bore tide" on Turnagain Arm just south of Anchorage, Ak. yesterday. The tide is so extreme that it sometimes comes in as a wave, this one looked to be about six feet high. Surfers like to take it for a ride, which can be up to 8 miles long.

 

[kona]

Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River near Mankato MN. One picture is mine from July 2022, at about 1,500 cfs, at the start of a nice day trip on the water. The second is from social media earlier this week on Monday, when the river had just begun eroding its new bed around a clogged up and overdue-for-service dam, at about 35,000 cfs. The house shown above the cut bank has since washed away and the abutment of the upstream bridge is now at risk.

The location of the canoes in the first is just out of the frame in the lower right hand corner of the second.

The weather has been strange here this year.

 

[Mississippi Mud]

The line on river left looks pretty hairy.

 

[Gamma1214]

The line on river left looks pretty hairy.

Yes but I'm thinking it's the best we've got. If we start left then cut between the pump house & the rocks it should be over pretty quickly.

 

[Alan Gage]

Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River near Mankato MN.

I've been keeping an eye on it all week. Pretty crazy stuff.

I've paddled it a handful of times but it's been a few years. It will be interesting to see how much has changed after the flood. Unlike most rivers around here this one mostly flows through steep bluffs on both sides of the river rather than an open landscape. I can't imagine how much force all that water has being hemmed in between the bluffs.

There's one large bounder in-particular in midstream that's a bit of a local landmark. Someone had climbed up it and planted an American flag. I wonder if it has been moved?

Alan