On another forum someone brought up the fact that this season was a slower paddling year than usual. Now, I know that lots of paddlwisers (paddlewisenheimers?) are not finished with their paddling season, but I wonder if you, too, had a slow year paddling. I know several of my paddling friends have complained of fewer opportunities for kayaking, too. I noticed a distinctly lower traffic pattern here on Paddlewise this year. Even stalwart trippers like the Rev are posting less. Does that reflect fewer trips? We generally make one kayak-oriented camping trip per year as an extended family; this year we made none; probably due to the high cost of gasoline. These trips aren't packing kayaks with gear and paddling off but, rather, packing kids and tents in the cars with kayaks on top and spending 4 or 5 days camping somewhere near good paddling waters. I normally paddle somewhere over 150 miles a year and this year it was not much over 50 - and I didn't keep track as religiously as I usually do. Maybe it's been a "rest year" with lots of other items on the agenda. We moved to the lake house and sold our farm, we spent more time on weekends doing family barbecues, and I spent a lot of time working on the muthah-ship. But those are just excuses. Did you paddle more this season? Or less? Is the economy responsible? If not, what are *your *excuses? :) Craig Jungers 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 Nov 20 2008 - 08:24:51 PST
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