Re: [Paddlewise] Paddle colors

From: Kirk Olsen <kolsen_at_imagelan.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:57:01 -0400 (EDT)
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. 

One of my skiing partners used to have a day glow light green (vaguely 
yellow) ski jacket.  You could identify where he was standing from the 
bottom of a ski lift while he was near the top (visually about the same 
size as the head of a pin).  Everyone else on the mountain would just be 
an unidentified speck.  That coat just screamed "I'm over here".  I 
haven't seen anything else that had quite the same visibility.
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