Mel wrote: > c) Kayaks owned or paddled: > Both: Wenonah Minnesota II (ultra light kevlar) aka "The Wavemistress" > e) Special interests > Both: Science fiction books and movies, Tae Kwon Do. ^^^^^^^^^^^ Anybody else see a connection here? When they're out paddling the canoe and can't agree on which way to go, they can resolve the conflict by sparring back at camp! Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 1999 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.missoulaconcrete.com/shawn/ *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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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From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com> > oh list mom ;-) did i miss yours? ;-p who? me? I guess so :-p :-p Jackie *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> a) Name Jackie or "Hey. Red" > b) Contact details & / or location list-owner PaddleWise and GASP, mail to: Mazda 626, Texas plates > c) Kayaks owned or paddled (boat names also if you like) 1992 Prism - Nixe (German for Water Nymph and no, I'm not German) 1993 Sea Lion - Nixe II 1996 Khatsalano - (the cat) > d) Boat name and serial number if maritime radio operator Boat name above, the rest.... HIIK > e) Special interests Learning, sharks and westies (the two are similar), night paddling and watching sunsets anywhere > f) Specialist knowledge My birthday > g) Strong opinions Yes. > h) Most interesting kayak trip It's around the corner (meaning... each one tops the last... short memory, I guess) Is that all? because I answered from Mark's replies..... Cheers, Jackie (it's that Cabernet, Itellya) *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
a)NAME: Gabriel L Romeu b)CONTACT: gr(at)studiofurniture(.)com c) BOATS: Dagger Baja, plans for a CLC Northbay sitting in my office. Have never paddled a fiberglass for fear of being seduced. Looking for a WW boat for enhancing the small taste of surfing I had this past summer. d) BOAT NAME: Depends on how cooperative it is with the circumstances I am in. e) SPECIAL INTERESTS: making stuff (process/tools-machinery), hiking (only in urban areas armed with a rangefinder camera), reading(usually critical, historical or technical, rarely narrative), aesthetics/design, music. Used to skate a lot and enjoyed that immensely- moving to the country made it inconvenient. Obviously kayaking- maybe as much with the diversity of skills it has encouraged learning as the beauty of the equipment. f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE: metal working, painting, print making, photography, electronic imaging, wood working, graphic communication g) STRONG OPINIONS: 'Artist' is bandied about as a positive descriptive term for someone who either does/makes anything very beautiful or skillfully. Art, in the 20th century, has very little to do with beauty or craftsmanship. A very poor use of the term 'artist'. Strong opinions are slippery at best. h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP: Does this include the 60's? i) BIO: middle-aged and act it- I was way too naive, goofy and reckless as a kid to repeat it now. married to a person who obviously has pretty poor taste and great patience- guess I'm just a lucky guy. I design and make furniture for a living, make other stuff in between(CLC Northbay this winter). I maintain a daily journal of photographs on the web which is an extension of the street and event photography I have been doing since the early 70's. Don't photograph from the kayak generally, feel it is an inadequate medium in expressing the experience. -- : : Gabriel L Romeu : http://studiofurniture.com furniture from the workshop : http://members.xoom.com/gabrielR life as a tourist, daily journal : http://users.aol.com/romeugp paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Ever since the first of April, I've often come home from work, hooked up the kayak trailer, and headed out for an hour or so on the water. As October has progressed, sunset keeps getting earlier, so it's something of a rush to get in an hour on the lake before sunset. Today was the last work day before daylight savings time ends, and with it, the last chance for the routine after-work paddles until next spring. At least it was a fine evening. It was warm, in the seventies, and with the water temperature in the fifties, a clear sky with some scattered cirrus, and a gentle, dying breeze, it was about as nice a day as could be asked for. I was nearly alone on the lake, except for a couple of familiar fishermen, trolling endlessly for the lake's trophy muskies. Even considering the low hum of their motors, the lake seemed strangely quiet as I headed for the far end once again.This is a hunting lake, so the ducks and geese have gone elsewhere, and so have the hunters. The turkey vultures, which for months thrilled me with their soaring flight in huge flocks, have also left for warmer climates, and the herons have left, too. About the only bird to strike my vision was a lone comorant that flashed by overhead. The color season is over with. Virtually all the leaves are down, except for the dark brown of the oaks and the greenish yellows of a few shoreside willows, and the woods seem stangely transparent, for I could look deep into them to see hills that have been hidden by green since May. The water, while always murky and never transparent, seems empty as well, for the riot of weeds and grasses and lily pads have also pretty much taken their leave, as well. The drought we've had this fall also helped to make the lake lay bare its secrets; the water is down a foot or more since last spring, exposing shorelines and rocks and gravel beds that are usually hidden in the dark waters. About halfway to the far end of the lake, there was one strong puff of wind, and then it died out to a flat calm. In only a few minutes the water was glassy, and once I got around the point I could no longer hear the outboards of the trollers. A few leaves littered the quiet surface of the lake; I tried to pick my way through them the best I could, for the square bow of my kayak will often pick them up, making a bubbling noise that can get irritating quickly. As low as the water was, I knew there was no point in trying to go out to my favorite spot on the lake, for I knew I'd never make it across the sand bar at the mouth of the bay. A month ago, I'd checked out the water depth there, and found birds walking around on the exposed mudflat. Although earlier in the month we had enough rain to allow me to get back in there again, it's back down, now. Instead of trying to get in the bay, I decided to head for another nearby bay, a little deeper, one that, for some reason, I rarely head into. The water in the bay was like glass, and the stillness was appreciated after a busy day. The only sound that really broke the consciousness was the grinding road of a combine working on some soybeans in the far distance, and the rustle of dry leaves where a squirrel or two was thrashing around. A bass jumped, breaking my reverie, and then another. To the west, the sun was sinking low, and I knew I had to be getting back. As the golden orb of the sun sank in a pinkish glow, I took my time heading back across the glassy water; I knew that this was the last of my after-work paddles for the year, the century, the millennium, and April seems far away. There will be other times out before April -- in fact, some of the better times, when flocks of migrating ducks and geese cluster in the thousands, but that's still a ways off, when the water and the sky get cold and everything turns a shade of gray. But that'll have to be on weekends, and it will be a special event, not just a routine after-work paddle. -- Wes *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 10/27/1999 11:07:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, canoeist_at_netbox.com writes: << did you really read all of this?! i'm sure sandy did <g >> OF COURSE I DID, Mark. The bio part is the best. I was empathizing with the arthritis (can't remember if you put your age - so you probably didn't), but I'm 53 and started with the arthritic twinges about 4 years ago (way tooo young!). Originally they told me it was rheumatoid and I had visions of me being a cripple. Once I had a blood test and it was confirmed as osteoarthritis my stress level went down a bit. When I went on an exercise binge a couple of months ago it was amazing how good and pain/ache free I felt. A mere 5 lb weight loss after TWO months ticked me off (and Yoga teachers left etc) so I sort of got away - and am back to the aches and pains. Another thing: an intro to massage giving on the cruise was an eye opener. After using an essential herbal oil (lavender) while giving a massage MY HANDS FELT GREAT. Am now checking into this. Sandy - who talks too much! *************************************************************************** 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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