On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, James Lofton wrote: > > While working for the BLM in Alaska, we conducted test on various colored > hard hats and found that day-glo green was best by far. Orange day-glo > came in second and bright yellow working well in most lighting and > especially if moving. Red did well "some" of the time, but could also > completly disapear if the lighting was not just right. Altho not tested > over water conditions, we did fly over the crews in many differant > backdrops and the day-glo green would JUMP OUT at you in all conditions, > even if not moving. > If I were painting my paddles this is what I would use. The color is so > alien, it commands you to look. > > James > this is why day-glo green is now the popular color for fire engines. mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # 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 to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. --Winston Churchill *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jun 10 1999 - 13:40:57 PDT
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