[Paddlewise] Who's Who

a)NAME:    Marek Uliasz

b)CONTACT: uliasz_at_frii.com
           Mountain Wayfarer: http://www.frii.com/~uliasz/wayfarer/ 
           Fort Collins, Colorado

c) BOATS: currently in Colorado:
          - Feathercraft K-1
          - CLC Patuxent 19.5 built this spring
          - Wayfarer sailing dinghy
	  in Poland
          - two Neptuns (folding double mad in Poland) used in 1970's
and 1980's

d) BOAT NAME: 

e) SPECIAL INTERESTS: 

            kayaking, sailing, boatbuiding, photography including
Polaroid 
            transfers and other alternative processes, newfoundland dogs
-
            these including my scientific interests are somewhat
represented
            on my web pages: http://www.frii.com/~uliasz/

f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE: photography, sea navigation, different computer
skills

g) STRONG OPINIONS: 

h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP:

- paddling in Poland in the span of nearly 20 years: tracing remains of
old     water engineering structures (irrigation systems, aqueducts,
water mills),     comparing with old reports from literature and
witnessing mostly their destruction; I regret that I didn't have my
current photographic equipment and skills to document  
all this
- any paddling at sunrise

i) BIO: 
44, married, scientist (meteorology, air pollution, computer modeling),
came to Colorado from Poland in 1989.

I started kayaking in 1970 in Sandomierz, a small town in Poland on
the         Vistula river, where nobody had seen a folding kayak before.
I guess it was
book influence (e.g.,"Poland-India by Kayak" by Korabiewicz). Then,
there         were many kayaking expeditions mostly with my brother
Piotr, thousands of         kilometers down and up rivers and across
lakes, many kilometers of land         portages, some favorite rivers:
Czarna Hancza, Biebrza, Narew, Brda, Wda,         Zbrzyca, Drawa,
Drweca, Wel, Dunajec. It was one international trip:
down the Dunabe river from Bratislava, Slovakia to Bucharest, Romania.
I was also involved in sailing on the Baltic and North Sea. In Colorado,
I                         do mostly day paddling - exploring Colorado
and Wyoming lakes and planning
some longer trips to larger water bodies in the southwest.

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