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From: Jeff Hoyer <jkayak_at_sopoint.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] tides and currents: reading the water
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:43:03 -0400

That could be an apt name for this place, but actually the name is "Hell
Gate." "Hell" being, I believe, a Dutch name for "light," as it is in
German. But I think most paddlers here call it "Hell's Gate" anyway!

On 9/30/06 9:18 PM, "Craig Jungers" <crjungers_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> So *that's* why they call it "Hell's Gate". I always wondered.
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