In the interest of saving baby ducks from trampling --- a worthwhile cause, certainly --- it appears that some of us on this list will leave no tern unstoned. Wasn't planning to get into this maelstrom, but two items came to mind; my son, daughter and I ran the Alsek and Tatshenshini Rivers two summers ago on a private trip permit. This run, starting in the Yukon and ending in Alaska, is closely regulated by permits. Most trips are commerical, but some are private. - in the ten days we spent on that incredibly beautiful, totally remote 170 mile set of rivers, none of us ever saw one piece of human-generated detritus. Not a granola bar wrapper, not a single Coke can! Once, when one of our group lost a cellophane candy wrapper overboard, we accepted considerable physical risk in recovering the tiny piece of flotsam, such was our concern for the sanctity of this waterway. We left behind only the ashes of a fellow paddler, for whom this trip was a memorial. Don't think the river minded that. - another non-commercial trip left a day after ours: four Asian tourists with "some" raft experience. The first day has the biggest whitewater, mostly some class four-ish stuff, and, to ensure stability, the four tourists 'binered their two rafts together. Predictably, this did not offset but caused the flip, and the two men and one of the women were recovered. Darwin claimed the other woman for the river. Lessons-learned? Permits and natural selection <can> work. Joq *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Apr 23 1998 - 10:42:25 PDT
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