Writer, Photographer, Adventurer
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 learned the hard way that in New England, it's always best to operate according to... Continue Reading →
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 little over a week ago, it rained 5" in VT and NH...again. Ben and I left... Continue Reading →
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 in 30 hours. Many paddlers were skunked by the infamous North Branch of the Winooski... Continue Reading →
Catch up on the rest of the trip here.Day 6:12 miles1.7 miles of bogging1 communal pot of poutine in Havre St. PierreWell, we got up on the last day thinking wow, blue sky, nice out, this is great. As soon as we took down our tarp it started pouring rain, so we all raced into... Continue Reading →
If you haven't read the first few days, check them out here.Day 4:31 milesNot 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 up during the night.The scenery still sucked.We geared up and paddled 31 miles of flatwater in the... Continue Reading →
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 Sunday, and wow. It's pretty damn good. We left Hanover at 7ish on Sunday morning.... Continue Reading →
For days 1 and 2, look here.Day 3:21 milesI 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 morning, when we all hopped straight into our drysuits and packed up camp quickly. The day started... Continue Reading →
Day 2:26 milesWe 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 and helipad. Shortly thereafter, we came across Entrance Exam, the first huge rapid.Boyce in it.Greg showing... Continue Reading →
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 what was probably a porcupine, but may have been a bear cub.To summarize briefly, God... Continue Reading →
Five2Nine Productions - Events - The Raquette Race 2010 from Five 2 Nine Productions on Vimeo.And a post about it on the LiquidLore blog: http://liquidlore.blogspot.com/2010/09/raquette-race-recap.html. Thanks again to the Five2Nine crew for putting on the race, I hope I'm around for it next year.Just got back from the Romaine River in Northern Quebec...trip report and... Continue Reading →
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