Wes Boyd wrote: > > Apparently there has been a double sea kayaking fatality in the San Juans. > > For more information: > > http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/foun23ww.shtml I guess we will hear more about this in coming days from people closer to the scene. One thing struck me...their ages. The two guys were 20 and 22. I have been scratching my head to recall _anyone_ I know under the age of 25 who sea kayaks. I have hardly run across anyone under 30 in the sport. Most paddlers that I have run across are in their mid-30s and up. The sea kayaking community on the East Coast, at least the many hundreds I have met, are an older lot. Both of the kayakers who died were University of Washington students. Seattle being a thriving sea kayaking populated area probably tends to draw university students to the activity. Here in the East, we don't have such sharply concentrated areas of sea kayaking that would have such spillover into the university community. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Sep 24 2000 - 11:43:13 PDT
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