Steven Holtzman wrote: > Dan, > Ok, now that the testing is in--which whistle do you think is better to > carry? I'm not looking for the legal waiver etc. cr_p--just your > opinion. > There's only so much room left on my pfd. I am leaning towards the Fox 40 because of its tiny size, but I still have some tests to run, including the obvious high-wind test. But I doubt that any of the alternatives work well in high winds--my air horn certainly does not. As I noted before, I will continue to carry my air horn in bear country. I've seen a brown bear run so fast from the sudden blast of my air horn that I felt sorry for the poor thing--all of those trees that it knocked down must have hurt! I would have felt worse were it not for the fact that the bear was only about 15 feet from me when I first noticed it. Can you say "adrenaline rush"? Given Doug Lloyd's point about the difficulty that some "elderly" paddlers have hearing high frequencies, perhaps I will also carry the air horn when paddling with the geriatric set. :-) Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Nov 07 1999 - 21:51:49 PST
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