FOLDING Canoes & Kayaks XT-16 &XT-17 Making miles on the Selenge River.
The XTs are high-performance touring kayaks. Get the XT-16 with both tandem deck and solo deck, and you have an efficient tandem kayak one day and a long-distance solo the next!
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performance make Puffins
Baikal fisherman, Siberia.
a sick man, his family and two doctors across the river to an ambulance waiting on the other side. Now, we notice the family seems more interested in our ca- noes than our puny harvest. They, too, are looking for a shuttle across the river. By the time we have successfully ferried the family and their gear across, we
have exhausted our Mongolian vocabulary and offer the mother our phrase- book. She rifles through the pages, pointing to key words: eat, food, sleep, house. She gestures downstream and we follow. The family help haul all our gear up to their house, located just downstream
in a village that shares its name with the river: Selenge. The small dwelling is a one-room log cabin equipped with two windows, a tin roof, a TV and a karaoke machine. The house sets them apart from a vast number of their country- men—30 percent of Mongolians are nomadic herders, a greater number per capita than in any other country. The nomads live in gers, traditional Mongo- lian yurts that can be quickly dismantled and relocated from season to season. We are motioned to join the family in sitting on the floor. Soon we are
served traditional hot, salted goat milk tea and a stew of noodles and meat. The Mongolian diet is mostly derived from the animals they herd: meat, fat »»
PakCanoes are excellent for remote wilderness trips or adventures closer to home. Light-weight, compact for easy travel and storage, yet rugged, dependable and easy paddling.
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PHOTO: ERIC MCNAIR-LANDRY
PHOTO: ERIC MCNAIR-LANDRY
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