Them jet ski thingies you are talking about are called snow-mobiles (don't try to hang them over the babies crib, though) or ski-doos. They actually came out before the jet ski's. I guess the folks wanted to practice in a place where they wouldn't drown if they fell off. Then they started taking them ski-doos across short stretches of water. There was even talk at one point of putting sp*****ns on them!! I guess eventually they wore out them skis on the front, because they kind of stopped using them. Then they wised up enough to put floatation in them, and it went downhill (down river?) from there. But they still keep the "training machines" around and use them during the winter, it takes a lot of practice to be that annoying! Mike Paddler and snowmobiler. -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 18 1999 - 08:52:50 PST
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