Seattle Sports: 2015 Missouri River Paddling Rendezvous sponsor. They make great boat carts, dry bags, and other paddling accessories. Click the logo to the left for their website.
Solo Stove: 2015 Missouri River Paddling Rendezvous sponsor. They make great wood fire stoves, perfect when you run out of fuel or prefer wood to cook on. Tina Brooke used one on her historic 3000-mile solo canoe trip down the Missouri river. "Great natural wood burning stove. Easy to light and boils water fast. Lightweight and convenient". Tina Brooke - 3000 miles solo by canoe down the Missouri-Mississippi river. Click the logo to the right for their website.
Hennessy Hammock: 2015 Sponsor of the Missouri River Paddlers Rendezvous. They make great tent hammocks for having an alternative to sleeping on the ground. Click the logo to the left to access their website and see their product line.
Aqua~Bound: Sponsor of the 2015 Missouri River Paddlers Rendezvous. Great paddles for your next adventure. Click the logo to the right for their website.
Bending Branches: World Class Paddles Made in America. Many expeditions down the Missouri have used Bending Branches. Click the logo to the left for their fine product line.
Eddyline: Legendary kayak designs since 1971. Many expeditions down the Missouri
river have used Eddyline kayaks. Click the link to the right for their product line.
Aquapac: A leading light in the waterproof bag world for over 35 years, having sold over 5 million waterproof bags and cases. Sponsor the 2015 Missouri River Paddlers Rendezvous.
Missouri River Paddler member Cliff Jacobson- Uncensored canoe camping.
It doesn't get any better than this!
It doesn't get any better than this!
Cliff Jacobson: Part 2: Paddle camping tips.
Cliff Jacobson- Inside tips on paddle camping.
Cliff Jacobson has several more information videos regarding paddling and camping on Youtube. They are not linked here, but are easily found by doing a search on Youtube. Cliff Jacobson is one of North America's most respected outdoors writers, wilderness guides, national and foreign consultants, and is the most published canoeing/camping writer of this century. He is a professional canoe guide and outfitter, a wilderness canoeing and camping consultant and the author of over a dozen top-selling books on camping and canoeing - numerous titles have been translated into Spanish, German, French and Turkish with sales approaching one million copies.
Cliff has written over 20-books on paddling. His classic, "The Forgotten Skills", is one of the best source of information around. Cliff's focus on is canoeing, but don't let that influence your kayak interest as the same outdoor skills are the same. Forgotten Skills can be digitally downloaded by clicking here.
Cliff Jacobsons website is a wealth of info too: Click here
Planning an Expedition:
Article on planning a paddling expedition by Sean Morley.
Tips on goals, planning, sponsorship, training and more.
Click image to the right.
Sowing Expedition Seeds: Planning 101: By Allen Kesselheim.
Great article on what it takes to plan a trip. Click Image to the right.
Photo by Allan Kesselheim of he and wife Marypat, during 1985 trans-Canada expedition.