Hmm...sounds all too familiar. Sometimes you reach the point where you realize that you can't be the conscience for the whole club...you can be a source of information, but ultimately, people will always make their own decisions. Why risk your own liability and safety looking out for others who won't look out for you? Stay in the group. Treat it as a social club. Meet people, do potlucks, have parties. Go on private trips with only the people you like and trust. It might be the death-knell for a "paddling" club, but a "paddling" club that isn't a safe paddling club isn't really a good paddling club anyway. Who loses here? Only the beginners, for whom a club experience can be a great introduction to safe paddling. Shawn Jim <jfarrelly5_at_comcast.net> wrote: The kind of club that isn't going to survive the next officer election because no one will be club President. Including me. I think it has become a social club. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Sep 03 2003 - 08:08:02 PDT
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