Expensive Piles of Unnecessary Gear; the notion drives me nuts. The point is that the lady wore NOTHING to protect her from the cold. She almost made it anyway. If she had been wearing ANY piece of CHEAP coated polartec, she probably would have survived. The constant cry that DRYSUITS are too expensive so we have to wear street clothes is a TOTAL misrepresentation of what is available. The nonsense about NO ONE WEARS such protection is not a justification for continued regional ignorance. BOOTS! Unbelieveable. Wetsuit boots are cheap! Flares, VHF radios etc are all great, but that stuff is NOT IN THE SAME category as PFD's and wetsuit gear when paddlers are out on cold water. etc. etc. We can do better than this. Someone talk to these people! Chuck Sutherland *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Feb 04 2002 - 07:31:42 PST
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