Don't believe any of this! Southeast Alaska is a rainy, cloudy, rainy, dreary, rainy, depressing area with constant cold winds, seas that never get warm, and marauding bears that make camping a veritable nightmare. ;-) Enjoy the slide show - Southeast really is an incredibly beautiful place. Dave Seng Juneau, Alaska > -----Original Message----- > From: Julio MacWilliams [mailto:juliom_at_cisco.com] > Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 9:34 AM > To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subject: [Paddlewise] Alaska slide show > > > The following might be interesting for the paddlers around SF > Bay area. > There is no charge, and it is going to be lots of fun. > > > COME SEE THE NATURAL WONDERS OF ALASKA'S INSIDE PASSAGE VIA > SEA KAYAK. MEET > > KAYAK GUIDE ROGER SCHMIDT, A NATIVE OF SITKA, ALASKA. LEARN > ABOUT A VAST > > WILDERNESS WITH HUNDREDS OF UNINHABITED ISLANDS OFFERING PADDLERS A > > LIFETIME OF EXPLORATION. > > > > Where: California Canoe & Kayak > > Jack London Square > > 409 Water Street > > Oakland, CA 94607 > > > > When: Thursday, April 29, - 7:30 PM > > > > The remote archipelago of Southeast Alaska will be featured > in a slide > > presentation hosted by California Canoe & Kayak. Home to > humpback whales, > > brown bear and frisky sea otters, Sitka, Alaska, is the > center of the > > world's last great temperate rain forest. For wilderness loving sea > > kayakers, the region has become a Mecca. > > > > ROGER SCHMIDT, a native of Sitka, first experienced sea > kayaking in Alaska > > as an infant stowed deep in the bow of his parent's tandem boat. He > > eventually paddled the Inside Passage solo, from Vancouver > to Sitka, and > > also completed a kayak crossing of the Bering Strait. > > > > There is parking available at Jack London square under the > Barnes & Noble > > Book Store or the Washington St. lots. Call (510)893-7833 for more > > information. > > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************** > ************* > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ > ************************************************************** > ************* > *************************************************************************** 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 10:50 AM 5/28/99 -0800, David Seng wrote: > Don't believe any of this! Southeast Alaska is a rainy, cloudy, rainy, >dreary, rainy, depressing area with constant cold winds, seas that never get >warm, and marauding bears that make camping a veritable nightmare. ;-) Dave, sounds more like Oregon, to me! So dreary here they can't even take pictures, they take them in Alaska and pass them off as Oregon, from what I hear. <grin> Hank Hays *************************************************************************** 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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