Re: [Paddlewise] Sea Kayaking Literature?

At 12:36 PM 4/7/99 EDT, HTERVORT_at_aol.com wrote:
>Sorry, but no I don't.  Blind single-mindedness without concern for basic 
>decency, safety and the sanctity of life I never admire.  Too many people
die 
>or are killed in the name of unworthy goals set by egomaniacs.  
>
>That is a gentleman from whom we could learn much about how *not* to
manage a 
>group paddle.  When Don and Victoria were traveling together the contrast
was 
>tremendous.  Don didn't enjoy any of it and was a (self-admittedly) 
>miserable, driven human being.  Victoria did just as many miles, took much 
>more responsibility for camp chores and the like, and had to put up with
Don, 
>but she still saw the glory in the land, the water and the people around
her, 
>deriving much more than hollow macho bragging-rights for the accomplishment 
>of a goal.  Victoria returned and did the big miles and heroic deeds solo
and 
>was both safer and happier without Don.  Don returned and endangered people 
>who put their lives on the line to save him from himself.
>
>The best part of _Paddling to the Arctic_ was when the local told Don he was 
>sorry Don had survived his first brush with death because it would encourage 
>other idiots to go up north, littering their shores with dead bodies (very 
>loosely paraphrased).  This from a first-nations gentleman who new the area 
>and cared, as all up there seem to, for the welfare of all people in their 
>midst.

Amen Harold!
Wise man say: "When head up a__, difficult to smell roses"
ByeBye! S.
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