On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Mark Sanders <sandmarks_at_ca.rr.com> wrote: > 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 saw that movie!!! It was awesome. > > 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! The w/w boat you want to use is called a Dagger RPM-Max. They're available on Craigslist for around $300. If you buy one I want to be around the first time you try to paddle it in a straight line. <hehehe> I'd bring mine down but I have no more room on the top of the Killed-In-Action after the two Mariners. Craig Jungers Feeling like Walter Mitty in Moses Lake, WA *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Apr 17 2008 - 11:00:45 PDT
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