>> Our company culture is such that employees of both genders and both gender preferences mix and match to go on trips, choosing one another on the basis of skill, compatibilty, and ability. In this environment, going touring with someone does not neccessarily imply you're sleeping with them. When I met my wife a few years ago, it did take her awhile to be convinced that there was such a thing as "platonic touring" with some one of the opposite sex. >> I used to lead a lot of trips for the singles division of the North Star Ski Touring Club, many of them long weekend and week-long wilderness trips in the Boundary Waters. It was so common for men and women to share tents on these trips that it never caused comment aside from an occasional ribald remark about shadows on a tent wall. As far as I know, most of these arrangements were platonic. (Considering how thin tent walls are, it's hard to have any other kind of arrangement on a group trip, though some people do manage it.) So used to these arrangements was one fellow I knew that, during a whitewater class in another club, he suggested in all innocence to his female paddling partner, whom he had met through the class, that they share a tent. As he told me later, it wasn't till he saw the expression on the woman's face that he realized that it sounded like a proposition! >> PS: there's a gay hiking club here in Vancouver with a great name: "Out and About". >> Pronounced "Oot and Aboot"? Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 9/20/99 2:28:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, CHUCK_at_multitech.com writes: << PS: there's a gay hiking club here in Vancouver with a great name: "Out and About". >> <<Pronounced "Oot and Aboot"? >> I LOVE IT!!!!!!! Sandy Kramer *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Chuck Holst wrote: > > >> <snip> I have used a "scatpacker" system for about 5 years on river trips (canoe/raft). Unfortunately it is too big to fit into a sea kayak. It is basically a bucket with a ratcheting device on the lid, a good gasket and a purge valve. I think the Lake Powell regulations prohibit plastic bags but would allow a homemade container which can be dumped into one of their disposal stations. It does not have to have an RV type hose. BTW- no one checked us out for compliance when I was there recently. I called the makers of the scatpacker this morning and suggested that they make one to fit sea kayaks. When are you planning your Lake Powell trip? I went down for the first time two weeks ago and would like to go back when it is less busy. I'm planning to write up a short trip report if I can ever get through the accumulated paddlewise e-mails! If I find a solution to the portable toilet I'll post it. Walt Chudleigh Park City, UT *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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