photoa by someone else
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Late Afternoon, Early Spring, Afterwork Desires.
The Parker River
The put in
The portage
The Fish Ladder
The take out
Easy After Work Dusklight Float Photos By Rick Beaty
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
The Macal River, Belize.
The Macal River is in the Cayo District of Western Belize. Canoeing through the Mayan Mountains is enchanting and other worldly. What a chill float. The stretch up river of the small town San Ignacio has caves full of bats, wild boars you can smell from the canoe hoofing through the bank trails and deep lush jungle. As it enters San Ignacio down on river left the town market is the perfect stop for "ah-oo-ten-tico" Belizian food. Try to find the "fo-we-chicken" its the peoples chicken, the national dish with rice and bean. "Belize it" or not, theres a killer Indian restaurant in the town of San Ignacio too.
photos by Rick & Robin Beaty
photos by Rick & Robin Beaty
Yea! I'd Rather Be Down There!
The Rio Grand, South of Hispanola, New Mexico.
photos by Rick & Robin Beaty
photos by Rick & Robin Beaty
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Ipswich River
The Ipswich River is a "local watering hole". Camping is restricted, which is cool because it keeps the riffraff at bay. I had to become a member of the Mass Audobon Society to be able to rent one of their three beautiful sites on Perkins Island. The most recent night we went I rented all three as to not share such quiet nature with other transients or Cub Scout groups.
The best time out on the Ipswich is for the day. You can go for 3-5 hours, picnic at Perkins island(illegal according to the sign) Foote Bros' swampy site at "Something Or Another" Island, or float your lazy ass the entire way through the towns of Wilmington, Reading, North Reading, Middleton, Topsfield, Hamiltion and Ipswich out towards the sea(the later three being the best sections). You're on river time, and yet closer to work than I live.
photos by Rick Beaty & Bryan Harland
Packrafting the White Mountains
The Androscoggin River
Next time we are in the Whites and want to dig our teeth into some river -the Pontook Section of the Androscoggin River in NH. It's 2.4 Miles long and according to "American Whitewater" It's a class II section. This section is short so we'd have to walk our boats back to the put in a few times(like when we were kids flying down mountains on our skateboards huffing it back to the start to do it all over again). It's just north of Milan on Rt 16. The Pontook Dam releases, supposedly, most weekends.
photos by American White Water & endurefun.com
Friday, February 27, 2009
Tumbledown Mountain
Tumbledown Mountain hides near its worn peak
a pond stocked with trout and a couple days worth of floating in the quiet.
Im thinking rainbow trout stuffed with cilantro, lime and chiles on an open wood fire
where the skin crisps
and the bones chill
some a late May evening.
(photos by someone else)
Sunday, February 22, 2009
transientcanoe.blogspot.com
Unlike backpacking where weight is a major concern and space is limited, Canoe Camping allows anything and everything you'd would if you were "drive-up" camping. But, if you bring ultralight-backpacking equipment on a canoe, it allows you to bring even more food and beer along, ie. "essentials". Instead of a 15 lb, two burner Coleman stove, two 2.5 oz Snow Peak Giga Power backpacking stoves make more sense, they weigh less and take up less space; hence, more wine and cheese.
This is where pure gourmet gluttony enters the picture. Ok, so camping doesn't scream out fillet Mignon with black truffle potato gratin or soft shell crab sandwiches on fresh camp cooked sourdough, but that's only because you don't have the balls!
I'm fucked up. People accuse me of over-doing-it or "doing-it-up". Yes, I am a guilty motherfucker. For me, it's not just camping with freeze dried dinner and trail mix snacks, its a gourmet adventure. A waterfall or gorgeous mountain view from a river bend-beach is why we come, but, that experience can be enhanced by a prosciutto,cappicolla, bufalo mozzarella, tomato & basil panini on fresh baguette, drizzled with a fine extra virgin olive oil, kosher salt and fresh crackedpepp, which just happened to be our first lunch on the river. I mean, come on! Am I wrong? While your eyes and ears are getting high from the views and sounds of nature that some consider spiritual, why not engage the tongue?
Canoe camp-cooking is a pain in the ass. The more you can do ahead the better. I got my mandolin out the night before we launched, and dealt out the thin cards of a potato dish that drives you out of your mind. Potatoes, butter, cream and truffles, dude.
8-10 purple potatoes (red can substitute)
4 cloves garlic, diced
1 large shallot, diced
1 1/2 cup Parmesan, grated
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup melted butter
kosher salt
fresh cracked pepper
1/4 cup white truffle oil
1 black truffle (if you cant find one, use more white truffle oil)
Slice the potato super thin on a mandolin (don't have a mandolin?, get em consistently even and as thin as possible).
Butter a Pyrex baking dish
Lay out a layer of potatoes
Drizzle with heavy cream, butter, extra virgin olive oil, a sprinkle of garlic, a sprinkle of shallots, salt, pepper and Parmesan.
Lay out another layer of potatoes,
Drizzle again with heavy cream butter, extra virgin olive oil, a sprinkle of garlic, a sprinkle of shallots, salt, pepper and Parmesan
Repeat this until the Pyrex is full
The cream, butter and oil should fill up 3/4 of the height of the Pyrex
dust the top with an extra sprinkle of parm and bake, cover in foil, at 350 for 45 min
remove from oven when you have a nice light brown crust and the insides are bubbling out the edges.
let sit to cool
slice into 4 in squares
shave black truffle over each piece
drizzle each with white truffle oil
and serve beeyotch
(or in this case put in Tupperware and refrigerate 'til you leave)
Northrunner
Close to two years ago I bought this dvd. Within the first nine minutes, the first nine miles vibrated through every odd corner of my body. Chase Rapids & the Allagash River, who I never even knew existed, found an avenue of veins to motorcade.
http://www.state.me.us/doc/parks/programs/aww/video.htm
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