Re: [Paddlewise] Israeli kayakers rescued in Alaska (USCG video)

   Doug, this is an interesting concept, especially for one who is
going bald on top and expanding around the middle, and at increasing
risk of cardiac arrest every day. The new REI shirt has kind of a
Crocodile Dundee/Indiana Jones look, and should wear well at the
grocery store, in Starbucks, or even cruising I-5. Actually, the place
to see all the latest action wear is at the monthly kayak club meeting,
where everyone dresses like Fred Becky in Tevas. Whoops, I should not
have said that. Toast.

Brad

Quoting Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca>:
>
> Brad,
>
> Why not buy a Northface jacket. You know, the ones with the name of  
> some famous Himalyan mountain embossed on the front. I have a plain  
> one and a buddy of mine I go drinking with when he's in town has the  
> newer series with the mountain name aboce the Northface logo. All  
> the women gravitate toward him and ask him what it's like on top. I  
> think I get jealous with all the attention he gets but then he does  
> turn awefully red at times, as he once again explains he was never  
> there...
>
> DL (who isn't very adventurous in a bar unless there is one with a  
> signifigant CFS)
>
>>  I've thought it over carefully, and decided NOT to go over 186-foot
>> Palouse Falls in a kayak, or anything else. I did, however, get up the
>> nerve to buy a new shirt at REI, on sale, and it has an adventurous look
>> to it.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> Quoting James <jimtibensky_at_fastmail.fm>:
>>
>>> "The problem is the media sensationalizing risk taking. I was disturbed
>>> by a recent paddling magazine article that glorified a guy surfsking in
>>> 60 knot winds and 15 foot surf, only to have his surfski destroyed, and
>>> another guy going over a 186 foot waterfall. Is this what we should be
>>> striving for? "
>>>
>>> Duane
>>>
>>>
>>> As a dedicated coward, I couldn't agree with Duane more.
>>>
>>
>>> Jim Tibensky
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