oh list mom ;-) did i miss yours? ;-p a) Name mark zen b) Contact details & / or location canoeist_at_netbox.com ft lupton, colorado, usa 80621-0474 c) Kayaks owned or paddled (boat names also if you like) kayaks, playboat now: prijon yukon expedition, plastic cruising boat: seda viking, glass lay up playboat prev: aquaterra spectrum, plastic cruising boat prev: see canoe, solo canoes, tank/loaner: 17' osagian aluminum pleasure freighter: 17'9" we-no-nah cascade, glass playboat, sold: 14'4" dagger caper, 3 seats, plastic pleasure solo touring: 15'8" we-no-nah rendezvous, custom glass/kevlar d) Boat name and serial number if maritime radio operator na e) Special interests human powered transportation, computers, sci-fi, guns, photography f) Specialist knowledge ACA certified canoe instructor, outward bound ski mountaineering course, avalanche safety & rescue, solo bicycle ride around US & canada, computer geek g) Strong opinions (I doubt we'll have any of those :~) you probably don't want to know ;-) h) Most interesting kayak trip paddling a local 10 mile piece of river. had paddled it enough times during the summer to be comfortable on it solo. dropped car off at the take out, and my wife shuttled me to the put-in. i had two hours before sunset, usually took 90 minutes, so i had time, but a cold front moved through after 15 minutes on the river. the warmer water created fog, so i paddled most of the time only seeing 20-100 ft in front of me. the sky turned bright red with the approaching sunset and then i realized it was completely overcast, the fog had shrouded the clouds moving in. then the sky got redder & pinker, and these HUGE snowflakes started falling. the sound of them hitting the water was one i will never forget, kind of a hiss... as the front had passed, the temp warmed up, so i paddled through this surreal fog and snow for almost an hour and a half. sometimes the visibility would be the end of my boat, and i'd bump something submerged, and just about need a relief zipper for my spray skirt!! more like a bomb-bay door underneath would have worked [except of course that it would snag, and then i'd be a goner]. i finished just as the sunset, the kind that inspired john denver to change his name and sing about it "raining fire in the sky" red & pink snow storm, almost wind free. ----- including my "bio" from last time below for the "personal info" --- i'm another in the middle, at a ripe age of 37 ;-) i've lived on the east coast, and traveled the ocean on boats and ships up to an aircraft carrier [an when you're in hurricane hugo in the north atlantic, you still bob like a cork]. now i've lived most of my life in colorado, so i paddle lots of rivers, and a few large lakes, and some small ones. i'm an ACA certified canoe instructor, and that's really my true love, but my over-all specialty is "human powered travel" having ridden a bicycle around the eastern us & canada, also xc skiing, snow shoeing, besides backpacking here in the rockies. i just started "sea kayaking" a few years ago, having purchased a plastic aquaterra spectrum from my dad. a year ago i bought a prijon yukon expedition, to play with in rough water. we also bought another sea kayak then for one of our daughters... we have four, one in college, two at home with my wife and i, and the fourth lives 30 miles away, with her mom. so two out of the four paddle, and now have their own boats [i gave the spectrum to jessica last year] 10 years ago i was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, and now only paddle the canoe occasionally, but the kayaks go out 70-80 times a year a year for exercise!! i average 300+ miles a year, anything from lakes to class III rivers. my cars average 30,000+ miles a year just from paddling trips!! did you really read all of this?! i'm sure sandy did <g> i paddle mostly in the plastic boats, since i can "drop" them when i'm on my own, but i'd die if i dropped my kevlar canoe ;-) water sports are some of the last i'll enjoy, so i do, and i support a few clubs web sites for fun too!! and so it goes ;-) thanks peter!! mark -- #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.jacknjillz.com/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Computers are useless. 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