Has anyone read River-Horse: A Voyage Across America? It's by William Least Heat-Moon. For 26 bucks; I'd like to wait to see if QPBC comes out with it first. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> Vaguely reminiscent of Sebastian Junger's "The Perfect Storm", a much better written book and the reconstruction of the collision of three big storms off the Grand Banks a few years back.<< Did I see a film documentary of this on either Discovery or the Learning Channel not long ago? Very frightening. The buoy recorded wave heights were incredible! *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
<< Good ideas for interesting reading, Leander. One note: having finished "Knockdown", I'm seeing a lot of connection to what John Winters said in his last post --- paddle with your equipment, but make your judgements as if you didn't have it! --- and even to what James Lofton said originally, setting off some less than PaddleWise dialog. (I felt as if James' comments were completely off base at first --- as did Chuck Sutherland --- but I think maybe I'm reading some of the same sense in John's comments now, and I find myself in agreement. >> This discussion on homeowhatsis reminds me of a quickly put together canoe trip down the lower canyons of the Rio Grande back in 1976. It is an 83 mile trip through some 1500 foot deep canyons. If you get into trouble, you got to climb the canyon wall, hike about 20-30 miles to a road and then you are only 50 and 80 miles from a town of any size. These do not have hospitals. Cells phones don't even work in that area. Anyway, I had just gotten out of the Army as a combat medic and I sat the group down and told them I had been thinking about worst case scenarios for the trip. A broken arm did not worry me too much as you were just going to hurt for a couple of days while we paddle you out. The two things that did bother me were a broken leg and a snake bite. If you got either of those, you might just die before we could get you to a hospital. Anyway, the group mostly was young bulletproof males in their mid twenties. After supper at the first nights campsite one of them decided to hike up the canyon wall for some photos. There was a large stand of river cane he had to go through. In a few minutes he came back with an adrenaline rush and white as a sheet. His statement was "that damned thing was as big as my leg". The are has a large population of western diamondback rattlesnakes. He never left the open river sandbars the rest of the trip. Seeing is believing. John LeBlanc O (____/_______) ~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~~ Bluecanoe2_at_aol.com *************************************************************************** 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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