Re: [Paddlewise] Solo or Not?

Doug Lloyd wrote:

>  So, I turn to Andrew, and
> we both look at each other knowingly "Yea, lets let *Dave* find the
> boomers, after all, he likes being on the point so much." We told Dave our
> thought later, he was *not* really amused.We were kind of selfish, but Dave
> was a good route finder, after all.
>

I had a similar experience, only on a river.  My cousin is a rock magnet.  That
is the only way we can describe it, if there is a rock in the river, or under
the snow, he will find it.  On a trip down the Saco river in Maine we came up
on Walkers Rips, a mild class 2.  I held back a bit and told my daughter to
watch where Jeff goes.  She said "Oh, you want to know where the rocks are?"
Sure enough, he found them.  It made the clear route through much easier for us
to find.
I'm trying to get him into sea kayaking, without luck so far.  Maybe I should
tell him that the rocks are easier to avoid?

Mike
--
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt


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