My bio comes a little late but two days on this list feels like forever. I have really enjoyed reading all the entries (truth be told does anybody read them all?)and feel obligated to join in. I love wilderness in every shape and size: dry, wet, hot, cold, high or low. Anyway I can be self propelled in nature makes me happy. I have been paddling seriously and happily for about 10 years now and began soon after escaping the poisoned air of Los Angeles the day after graduating High School(being from L.A. is enough to make anybody love anyplace wild and natural). The Bay Area offered much greener pastures and life was grand. My passion for paddling started when I worked at REI while in college and took a sea kayak class. I explored San Francisco Bay and surrounding areas extensively and began working for a sea kayak school about five years ago. Mainly I paddle because I love to explore wild places. I enjoy speed but never paddle races or sacrifice exploring for a "workout". Because I worked for a large sea kayak school I was able to paddle many many many different boats and learned from experience which I liked and which I didn't. Now I live in Corvallis, Oregon where my wife is a grad student and I teach High School science. I am exploring the Northwest quite a bit, the coast of Oregon and Puget Sound. I own a plastic Looksha IV which I love, and too much gear. I am also gearing up for a solo trip from the San Juans up to Prince Rupert this summer. The trip is an unbelievable amount of fun to plan and anticipate and the source of some of my email questions about gear. I still teach sea kayaking for a local shop and love introducing people to the water. I became ACA certified by John Lull about three years ago. Enough for now, nice to meet everybody and what a great group to learn with. Brian W. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free _at_yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
At 15:03 10-02-99 -0800, Brian Windrope <bwindrope_at_yahoo.com> wrote: >My bio comes a little late but two days on this list feels like >forever. I have really enjoyed reading all the entries (truth be told >does anybody read them all?)and feel obligated to join in. i sure do... all of them!! quite a number i see!! great to get re-aquanted with old friends, and meet the many, many lurkers out there!! keep 'em coming!! thanks for the list jackie!! mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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