Re: [Paddlewise] 3 Mistakes when camping

From: Michael R Noyes <mnoyes_at_gsinet.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:58:59 -0400
Will Jennings wrote:

> 1.  Failure to adapt.

snippage

>    Darwin is right....those who don't have the skills
> to adapt are most likely the first to exit the gene pool.
>

I had an instructor who has a term for this as it applies to outdoor pursuits.
"Recreational Darwinism."

More snippage.

>   Small casualty resulting from not paying attention to bad decision making
> that might
> have caused  a much more tragic result than my bruised ego.  I could swear I
> heard the whistle telling me to get out of the gene pool.

I like it!  Great visual, too!

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


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