[Paddlewise] BWCAW Storms and You

From: Patrick Maun <pmaun_at_bitstream.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:32:20 -0500
Hey all,

many of you may have heard about the storms in the Boundary Waters 
this past weekend. If you haven't, well, they were pretty rough. 
Straight-line winds of 140MPH and trees flying everywhere. Here is a 
question I'd like to pose to the list:

What would you do in a very bad storm situation?

    Snuggle deeper in to your sleeping bag and hope the seams hold?

    Tie yourself to a big tree (or perhaps Canadian Ballast Rocks)?

    Hide under an overturned canoe?

    Crawl into a kayak cockpit?

    Tie a towrope to a tree and then to a canoe/kayak and set yourself
    adrift on the water (avoiding falling but not airborne trees)?

    Run screaming though the woods?

-Patrick
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