Thanks everyone for all the great responses to my original post. I've been hoping to respond to people individually but I've gotten so many responses (public and private) that I haven't had time, so a public "thank you" will have to do. I got many useful suggestions including other books to read, and I'll definitely do that. Almost everyone also encouraged me to try and make the trip a reality (after gaining experience -- which is understandably hard to define -- outside of a spreadsheet, that is :-)). I really appreciated that. Being new to the newsgroup I was happy to see there was no "elitist" attitude that some sports seem to have. I'm still not sure what will come of this, but I'm going to keep reading, get onto the local lakes this summer to paddle around and learn to eskimo roll (9000 ft lakes will probably be the same water temp as Alaska!), and see if I can manage some preliminary trips in the Pacific NW to see what's it like. Anybody on the list have a kayak on/near Lake Dillon, CO that I could play around in? (I'll be moving from Boulder to Breckenridge in a couple of months). Thanks again to everyone who responded! Cheers, -John *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Feb 05 2002 - 05:52:42 PST
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