Re: [Paddlewise] Teenager drowns on Chatooga, retrieval efforts dangerous

From: Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:11:34 -0400
Elaine Harmon wrote:
> 
> Hi- been reading about this in rec.boats.paddle. That kid was NOT A BOATER but a hiker who was wading and fell in.
> 
> We should all email Strom Thurmond and bitch (or something). Why not just
> put signs up whereever hiking paths come up to rivers? 

Mainly because this is a National Wild and Scenic River. You don't put
structures in W&SR corridors. Also, wading across a river upstream of a
Class IV rapid is perhaps not the safest approach to crossing a river.

A very sad situation.

Steve

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University of Georgia
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