Writer, Photographer, Adventurer

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Quick Update

2011 is starting off pretty great. Two weeks in Utah, 50+ days of skiing, then a fun boating weekend in southern New England including Bull’s Bridge and a high-water icy schwackspedition in the Delaware Water Gap. Then a cross country… Continue Reading →

Big Branch Fest 2010

The colors are beautiful, aren’t they? I’m glad I drove up from New Jersey to watch the leaves change. Oh, and what are those idiots doing in those silly plastic bathtubs? Well, I unfortunately missed Moosefest this year, but I’ve… Continue Reading →

Epic First D in the Upper Valley

Well, I hate to say it, but I think kayaking has been getting in the way of my blogging lately. Kayaking is just so fun it’s hard to do anything else…such as go to school, or blog about kayaking. A… Continue Reading →

Sandusky Brook Falls

Well, I’m a bit behind because of how long I took to write up the Romaine TR, but a couple weeks ago, New England got what may have been the biggest storm it’s gotten all year. About 5″ of rain… Continue Reading →

Romaine Day 6

Catch up on the rest of the trip here. Day 6:12 miles1.7 miles of bogging1 communal pot of poutine in Havre St. Pierre Well, we got up on the last day thinking wow, blue sky, nice out, this is great…. Continue Reading →

La Riviere Romaine, Days 4 and 5

If you haven’t read the first few days, check them out here. Day 4:31 miles Not a ton to say about day 4. We woke up to find wolf tracks throughout the camp all our sleeping areas…glad I didn’t wake… Continue Reading →

Lachine

In three years living in NH and ten boating in New England, I’d some how never made it to Lachine until last weekend. But, Quinn and I rallied a crew and headed up to Montreal for a day trip on… Continue Reading →

La Riviere Romaine, Day 3

For days 1 and 2, look here. Day 3:21 miles I woke up in the middle of the night sopping wet — don’t bring a bivy sack on a self support kayaking trip — and was looking pretty grim by… Continue Reading →

La Riviere Romaine, Day 2

Day 2:26 miles We packed up camp in cold, cloudy weather and paddled about 12 miles of mostly flat water (with some class II here and there) to a nice bedrock lunch spot next to a Hydro Quebec gauging station… Continue Reading →

La Riviere Romaine

The drive to the float plane base: 16 hoursThe flight: 85 milesThe river: 110 milesThe paddlers: me, Boyce Greer, Greg Hanlon, Scott Murray, Jonathan Baker, and Isaac Levinson.Animal sightings: 5 moose, 1 beaver, a few loons, ducks, wolf tracks, and… Continue Reading →

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