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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