RE: [Paddlewise] Teenager drowns on Chatooga, retrieval efforts d angerous

Steve

I agree that it is terribly sad.

And wading across upstream of a Class IV is just wrong.

But the debate isn't the rightness or wrongness of signs
in wild areas or wading in the wrong place.  It's about
a dead girl.

If it was your child, I suspect you would do anything
and everything possible to retrieve their body.  I know I 
would.  I put people ahead of things every time.

Larry Mills
Purchase, NY
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Cramer [SMTP:cramer_at_coe.uga.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 15, 1999 10:12 A.M.
> To:	paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> Subject:	Re: [Paddlewise] Teenager drowns on Chatooga, retrieval
> efforts dangerous
> 
> 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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