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The great kayak adventure -- Day 2
For those new to this posting, we are at Kayak Ways in Brownfield ME, building skin-on-frame kayaks. Pictured, along with the kayaks to be, are Trudy Phillips and Turner Wilson in the background.
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The great kayak adventure -- Day 1
OK, the great kayak adventure is to build traditional Greenland style, skin-on-frame kayaks for each of us. Building the kayaks should take approximately 10 days, but at the end of day 1, the outlines of the boats are already there,
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The great kayak adventure -- cross posting test
We are on another great adventure (pictures to follow in the next two weeks). One of my friends has decided to retire from facebook for the moment. This is a test of cross posting to cover friends on both social networks.
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Beating the heat
The temperature in the city went well pass 100 F, so what to do -- spend the day paddling and rolling on a local lake. We spent nearly 6 hours on or in the lake. Rolling the kayak is coming along well for both of us, and the extended paddling did not hurt either. In addition to the rolls, we practiced re-entry from intentional wet exists (any ( Read more... ) -
We can roll!
For our hiker friends, "rolling" in this case is up righting an overturned kayak while remaining seated in the boat. Trudy and I have been struggling to master this for longer than I care to say. Yesterday, something clicked on and we were both able to roll. We went out on the river again today, and repeated rolls until tired, then paddled down ( Read more... ) -
Kayaking at Hammocks Beach NC State Park
We spent the long Memorial Day weekend camping in Hammocks Beach State Park on Bear Island, North Carolina. The park had both day trippers out for a day on the beach and overnight campers in well spaced primitive camp sites. Access to the island was either by ferry or canoe/kayak. On this busy weekend paddling your own boat was much better than ( Read more... ) -
Cross Country Skiing in the northern section of Dolly Sods
As retirees with most of our in-town commitments on the weekend, we now take ski trips during the "work week". The pictures in the link below shows a trip out the Harmon trail, traversing the marsh and bog area besides the left fork of Red Creek, and then back the Dobbin Grade trail.
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Snowshoe nature tour
We joined one of the discovery tours out of White Grass. These are leisurely one hour snow shoe tours meant to introduce the general public to the natural areas in the Canaan Valley.
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