Re: [Paddlewise] Storm Island Rescue

Doug Lloyd wrote:
> 
> It is exactly one year since the Storm Island rescue - April 10th, 1999. I
> can't sleep tonight. I decided to send this report to the list. [snip]
> Pls, no flames - I just want to share my version, in its
> entirety (with the "daily" stuff taken out to decrease length). Thanks for
> understanding!
> 
> Bella Bella to Port Hardy (Intended Destination)
> April 1999
> 
> "The Fools of April"
[megasnip]

There is much to reflect on in Doug's sobering narrative.  It reminds me of
some of the travails Joe Simpson details in his book about his injury/fall (and
subsequent self-rescue) down a glaciated ice face in South America, after his
partner is forced to cut the rope.  (Can't remember the title, durn it!)

Particularly vivid in my mind as I write is Doug's treatment of the dynamics
among the threesome which lead to their fateful decision(s).  Best stuff like
that I've seen in sea kayaking literature.

Thanks, Doug.  May you paddle in peace.

And, yessir, the "feelgood" patina of the popular paddling press won't accept a
narrative like Doug's!  Outside mag, maybe.

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
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