Last Sunday a bunch of us went to Bowers Museum to watch a movie on the kayak expedition down the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet. Death defying seemed a good description. Definitely no conveyor belt to the top; just a lot of dangerous portages with mutinous porters. I've never been in a WW boat; I can't imagine it's as easy as they made it look despite monster conditions. Some day I hope to try out the run they have in the Truckee in downtown Reno. Luckily, I have an active imagination and can easily imagine I'm taming the Tsangpo! Mark -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Perfect for slalom races or portages www.usnwc.org is the world's largest artificial white water park with a conveyor belt to take paddlers back to the top without getting out of their kayaks. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Joe P. <jpylka_at_earthlink.net> wrote: > I had a friend who, some years ago, did a trip along the Trent-Severn > Canal between Lake Simcoe & Ottawa, up in Canada. Spectacular slides were > shown, including a lock somewhere in that chain that consisted of two > counterbalanced troughs. I don't remember the details now but somehow an 18 > inch height difference was created in one and the other was lifted upward by > that extra weight, so the entire structure powered itself... *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 16 2008 - 18:23:07 PDT
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