Tinkerntom wrote:

I am not, nor do I know Scott Weiser.

Great! and You're Probably Lucky.

Welcome to the group. It's good to have more active participants here.
I tried Boatertalk some, but the interface was too-time-consuming, so
it's kind of a shame that this newsgroup is relatively inactive.

Political threads bore me somewhat, but given that where we can paddle
is a political issue, I'd say they are definitely on topic.

Speaking of politics, please welcome Kevin Lewis as President of AWA!
He is a (northern California) Shasta Paddler who worked on getting us
scheduled late summer releases on the North Fork Feather!