Rex wrote: --snip-- > I'd find comments about whitewater, sea kayak, and canoe logs > interesting. --snip-- In Ontario keeping a log is required as part of the OWWA wild water instructor program, though very few instructors keep them. From a legal point of view, they are excellent, for you can document that you acted reasonably if you ever find yourself bveing sued. In the Wilderness Canoe Association they are used by trippers to form the skeleton of their Nastawgan Journal articles and Wilderness Symposium talks, and provide a wonderful resource for folks wishing to paddle in remote areas. Over the generations, logs have give us much of what we know about our north. They are invaluable historical documents in this respect. What I personally find interesting is the sorts of things which people put in their logs. For example, on my wilderness trip logs, I tend to focus on the personal relations of the participants, wereas other paddlers focus on the biology, and others focus on the topography. It can be a blast to compare several logs by different people on the same trip, or different logs by different partys covering the same territory. Richard Culpeper www.geocities.com/~culpeper *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Feb 28 1998 - 13:36:25 PST
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