Wes Boyd wrote: >>I think of all the rationalizing or the "I wouldn't have done thats" you hear on rec.boat.paddle at a death or a near miss. Sort of sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me. I think we're above that here.<< I got really sick of all that banter after an rbp death. Until this guy. He wasn't stupid. He wore a PFD, and some cold-water gear. I could have had similar things happen to me. I hope that by at least discussing what went wrong and what went right, we can learn from his experience and avoid it ourselves. I hope we're not rationalizing, but learning. I don't think the guy had a decent roll. I wouldn't do that. But, I saw things he did right, that I usually do wrong. He filed a float plan with his girlfriend. I don't usually do that, but I learned how valuable that can be! (and I will start filing a float plan--every time!) Because I could see he made a few mistakes, I see that he is a "human" paddler just like me; if we only look at "superhuman" expert paddlers who go out in the roughest conditions, it's harder to apply what they're doing in the scary stuff to what I'm doing in calmer stuff. Thanks to him, I found a few "gaps" in my own armor. Shawn -- 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 07:52:26 PST
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