Cary Karp wrote: >I've never been on open water (liquid state, that is :-) during >the ice season and don't know if local kayakers carry ice spikes. >It wouldn't surprise me and I can easily enough find out. Here in Minnesota many of us stretch our short season out by kayaking the winter through on portions of the Mississippi kept unfrozen due to the wonders of hydro-electricity. Many people either carry ice-axes under their shockcords, or a pair of homemade ice picks. These are simply wooden dowels with eyelets on one end for attaching them to yourself, and nails in the other end. These work great to pull yourself out of the water on to a flow. I think that the nails would also prove to be much less dangerous than trying this with a knife. When not being used, you can cover the picks with some corks or somesuch. -Patrick *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Jul 13 1998 - 08:04:26 PDT
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