I would appreciate recommendations or useful guides and data sources for expedition planning? Any suggestions might be helpful here. For example, where did Richard access the information below.? Offshore Cruising, Navigation and Racing: Time-Life Books, lists Key Books and Charts: Sailing Directions, Pilot Charts Coast Pilot and others. Richard Mithcell wrote: <mitchelr_at_ucs.orst.edu> > Subject: [Paddlewise] Paddling in HOT conditions. > > Any Paddlewise have experience paddling in the southern Sea of > Cortez in late June? The temperature data are fairly clear with > hot days and dramatic shifts toward cooler evenings. However > there is substantial variation from year to year, presumably as > a result of El Nino, then La Nina. Mean li/lo for June 10 - June > 23 of the past four years look like this. > > 1999 96.4 / 68.1 > 1998 103.2 / 73.4 > 1997 96.6 / 66.2 > 1996 102.2 / 65.7 *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Well for climate info, and a searchable database of historic weather conditions you might try: http://www.wunderground.com/global/MX.html (I chose the Mexico page since you were talking about the Gulf of Cortez). To keep an aerial weather eye on those parts of the world that rarely make it into the US press, I strongly recommend http://www.osei.noaa.gov/ . For me , it is indispensable in tracking the forest fire season in the Canadian subarctic, which might affect my travel plans. A used book search on http://www.abebooks.com/ or http://www.bibliofind.com/cgi-bin/texis.exe/search.vor will dredge up everything from self-published travelogues in the 1920's to government reports on resource exploitation. http://shop.gorp.com/atbook/srchresk.asp?mscssid=9WUWLD9M07SR2MCR00S7N8P35QU 49FAF is a page of books on the Sea of Cortez available from the Adventurous Traveler Book Store. My guess is that the amount of research needed for a true expedition exceeds the number of hours actually ON the expedition (at least if your a bibliophile who wants to know everything from flora,fauna,geography,human history, and adventure lore of an area before they even set foot there.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C. Cline" <rccline_at_swbell.net> To: <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Cc: "Richard G. Mitchell, Jr." <mitchelr_at_ucs.orst.edu> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 12:08 PM Subject: [Paddlewise] Trip planning: (Was---> Paddling in HOT conditions). > I would appreciate recommendations or useful guides and data sources for > expedition planning? > *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Are there any online publications of the U.S. Pilot Charts? Robert > MSN/RiDem <RiDem_at_email.msn.com wrote:> > Well for climate info, and a searchable database ..... *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
"Robert C. Cline" wrote: > Are there any online publications of the U.S. Pilot Charts? > > Robert > Check out; http://www.maptech.com/index.cfm They have most of their charts on line to check out, or you can buy the cd. Usual disclaimer. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** 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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