On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:03:02AM +0100, Tord S. Eriksson wrote: > Snowy hills maybe could be suitable substitutes to > such waves - there are some nuts using WW kayaks > in snow on YouTube, somewhere ... <cough> I've run this experiment, circa 1993, after having watched a video of someone kayaking down the side of a mountain in Tibet or Switzerland or somewhere. And among the scattered observations I can make are (a) boats are not designed to go that fast and (b) it's important to note that sometimes snow conditions at the beginning are not the same as snow conditions at the end. ---Rsk *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 03 2009 - 09:07:20 PDT
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