Doug Lloyd wrote: > What Gordin, you one of those Chris Duff-like paddkers? How did that > go...paddle out, turn right, and keep the coast to your right the whole > way? :-) > > Yeah, guide books are hardly essential though. Gotta give Kermantis credit > for marketing stratagem. No I'm no Chris Duff. Often I turn left (see below). And I'm not anti guide book. One look at my library and you'd see countless guide books from Rocky Mountain trails, Hawaiian Island snorkel sites, Vancouver Island foot paths, hiking trails of Vancouver Island, cycling routes of BC, Alberta, Washington, Ontario, to paddle routes along the Welsh Coast and on and on. Like Craig Jungers I love guide books and I think he has a good perspective on them. His is certainly a lot better then the woman who wormed her way onto a trip I put together in the Deer Group off of Bamfield a few years ago. She had a copy of Mary Ann Snowdon's guide book and was essentially trophy hunting. She had to bag every campsite that was mentioned in the book. Two of these sites were miles apart and for her she had to sprint from one perfectly beautiful camp site to the next one just to ensure we got there and could claim it ahead of all the other kayakers in the area. I'm more of a base camp and explore up and down the coast sort of guy. That's one of the reasons I seldom paddle the multi day point A to point B trip. I remember this woman got miffed when I insisted we go down, "the left side," of an island as it was more interesting. She slagged me cause I did not have a chart on my foredeck. Something about not knowing what I was talking about. Having explored the area the year before I left it rolled up and tucked away under the foredeck. We took the left route. The last day we came back the more direct route she had wanted to paddle. People thanked me for insisting on the out bound route, they liked the caves, arches, surge channels and rock cuts we paddled through as opposed to the featureless return trip. Sometimes it's the journey and not the destination that is more remarkable. The experience sort of soured me on the guide book as bible and the evangelical devotion to the book of words thing. You are one hundred per cent right regarding his marketing strategies. Look for big things from him in the future. Gordin Warner *************************************************************************** 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 Tue May 13 2008 - 22:25:50 PDT
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