RE: [Paddlewise] pogies

Hi Edward,

 For serious cold weather paddling I use neoprene gloves - yes they're
not as comfortable as having bare hands on the paddle shaft (ala
pogies), but the added warmth when my hands are wet and the added
security of having hand protection if I dump make them worthwhile for
me.

Dave Seng
Juneau, Alaska

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Sullivan [mailto:sullivaned_at_pop.mts.kpnw.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 1998 7:38 AM
> To: paddlewise
> Subject: [Paddlewise] pogies
> 
> 
> Mine are of the neoprene ilk, which seem to capilate water, 
> and are not
> snug enough to function as neoprene should. Waterproof would seem more
> efficatious. Any experience? Sources?
> 
> Wanting to break ice* and paddle,
> 
> E.
> 
> p.s.  Well, the ice is really only in the birdbaths, but we 
> are having a
> white one here in [frozen]Puddletown.
> 
> A very merry, y'all.
> 
> * My dad was just telling me about foresting in the northwoods in fall
> in the '40s and afixing sheet metal to the bow of a big motorized work
> canoe to keep lanes open in a lake he was surveying. Real men 
> back then.
> 200 pounds of salt pork on a tump-line**.
> 
> ** http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/fph/tsimsian/tratr01e.html ***
> 
> 
> *** can I get any more tangential?
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