>(replying via direct email) > >> Snuggle deeper in to your sleeping bag and hope the seams hold? > >Attempt to find a rock outcropping to hide behind? That failing how >about a gulley, ditch, hole... Flash floods would be a problem if you were in a ditch or hole. > >> Tie yourself to a big tree (or perhaps Canadian Ballast Rocks)? > >I'm not tying myself to anything that could conceivably come loose and >whack me. > >> Hide under an overturned canoe? > >Seems likely to go airborn. > > > Crawl into a kayak cockpit? > >How snug is your boat? I couldn't do this, at least not without a wood >chipper. I doubt most of us could do it, but fear is a great motivator! > >> 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)? > >Swimming in 100+ mph winds doesn't sound pleasant, it sounds less survivable >than being onshore. Right, but possibly less chance of being hit by a tree. Of course, if the towrope broke, or the tree came uprooted and and flying at you. Besides, I trust my Lotus will keep me afloat in anything. ;-) Maybe finding a rock outcropping and laying some large branches/logs to create a lean-to that might keep other branches from wacking you on the head. I just keep thinking of those worst-case scenarios. -Patrick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 06 1999 - 12:53:17 PDT
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