JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > Just wondering if you'd had a plan of how you were going to get *out* if you ever got in? (Just finished "Endurance" --- the story of Shackleton's adventures in Antarctica, who had vaguely similar problems, although of a much larger scale. You might consider reading that before attacking the Hudson.) That's always been my concern when doing crazy stuff like that. > Gail Ferris had some good advise on both getting in and getting out. She used a single Klepper year round to get out to an island she was babysitting. To reduce wear and tear of sliding along jagged icem to get to water, Gail had one of those roll up plastic sheet sleds. And she carried a garden hoe with a shortened handle. She used this in various ways: as an ice axe/cane when walking on slippery iced over boat ramps. When paddling she would use the sharpened hoe end for pulling her boat along between sheet ice that would not allow her to paddle stroke. And on approaching a landing, the hoe came out again to help pull her up on to icy landing spots. The other advice to my fellow Downtown Boathouse gang member Tim in confronting icy takeouts is to bring plenty of food. The ice should melt off by March. :-) ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Jan 31 2000 - 10:32:41 PST
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