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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Primitive Technology Living
  • Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:14:38 -0500

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:05:59 -0400
EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

Wish you lived closer. We've been trying to take a ropes course for the canoe

I mostly taught river reading and (rolling) self and buddy rescues for kayakers.

Once, when I was truly young and stupid, before I learned to paddle, I was sucked off a tube without a life jacket into a hydraulic and rescued by a drunk accountant. I know what it feels like to be tumbled like clothes in a washing machine. It seemed like I was in there forever. It was so aerated I couldn't tell up from down until I would get smashed on the rocky bottom. I thought I was going to drown.

More recently, about five years ago, when I should have known better, I put on the Nantahalla River in NC late in the day with a friend thinking I could boat scout the 27 Class II-III rapids of which I new nothing about. This is where the U.S. Olmpic team practices. This trip taught me a big lesson about knowing the weather. About a third of the way into the trip the temperature changed and a dense fog settled on us. I had never experienced such a thing. We might as well have been blind folded! The canyon was too steep to exit and you could hear the rapids coming. I am suprised we lived through it.

There's actually a good book that teaches river reading and rescues by William "Not Bill" Neely, called "Kayak" and it's actually in a comic book format. It's good for a laugh, but it teaches some great stuff.

How did you break your arm on the river trip? I have not heard this story.

Yes, I have the USGS website on my desktop at all times, along with the weather.

--Sage




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