In a message dated 3/14/2003 9:42:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, lisa_at_cadence90.com writes: > ... It seems to me that many of you just don't wait for spring -- as long as > the water's liquid and not solid, you go out. ... In Germany there are the time honored traditions of starting, "Anpaddeln", and ending, "Abpaddeln", the paddling season with a celebratory paddle session. Some of us used to perform the latter on December 31 and the former on January 1st ... unless the water happened to be too hard on the day (which happened VERY rarely). :-) Best regards, Ralph Ralph C. Hoehn Ralph_at_Atlatl-Kayaks.com / Ralph_at_PouchBoats.com www.Atlatl-Kayaks.com / www.PouchBoats.com phone: +1-802-649-2555 *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Mar 14 2003 - 07:12:13 PST
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