Category: Behind the Boats
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So painfully close
While the storms were a bit of a wild ride locally, it looks to have spared a lot of central and northern Wisconsin. That said, with the new river predictions out in the last hour, we’re just on the wrong side of where we need to be for at least Friday night trips. Saturday isn’t…
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River conditions for 4th of July weekend
We’re so close! The latest river update avoids a spike in water levels, BUT, it’s right on the line for where we’d cancel overnight trips. It looks like we’ll have a handful of sandbars regardless but at this level, a few inches makes a big difference. Likely no decisions to be made until tomorrow morning…
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We’ve got a new website!
Over the course of the past few months I’ve been going back and forth over whether or not we needed to put together a new website. The old one had been working pretty well for the past 6 years and while I couldn’t always get it to do exactly what I wanted, it was functional.…
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Colorado River Canoe Trip
Another off-season activity – we’ll often run semi-private (friend of a friend kind of thing) trips to various parts of the world. In this case, we did 100 miles on the Colorado River below Moab, Utah to the confluence of the Green/Colorado Rivers in 2014. This was 100 miles straight into the heart of nowhere…
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Building a canoe
I am often asked “What do you do in the winter?” and while the typical answer is “a lot of napping” it really depends. After the 2012 season, I took up amateur boat building with a great group of retired guys that had some boat building experience and a great workshop (it was a barn).