[Paddlewise] Clueless

I just extracted this from today's National Park Service morning report,
out of
Delaware Gap National Recreation Area. Are we talking clueless, or what?

-- Wes

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"The park received a report of two overdue canoeists on the Delaware River on
the evening of September 28th.  Rangers Mike Zirwas and Jennifer Kavanaugh
began a search for the married couple, who had rented a canoe from a local
business permittee, and found them in pitch darkness just a hundred yards
north of the point where they'd put in at Smithfield Beach.  The couple had
been dropped off that morning and instructed to head downstream to Kittatinny
Point.  They had instead paddled upstream against the current, covering about
three miles in six hours of steady paddling.  According to the woman: "When
we reached the fourth set of rapids and the water was still going the wrong
way, we decided we had probably been going the wrong way."  They turned
around and paddled for 90 minutes, then pulled over to the shore to wait for
morning - not realizing how close they were to the boat ramp where they'd put
in seven-and-a-half hours previously.  Both were okay and in remarkably good
spirits."


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