Bill Tuthill wrote:
Chris Bell wrote:

Old time readers of this newsgroup will remember Rocky Cantos (and
perhaps me as well!). My March/April AW Journal arrived today and what
to my wondering eyes should appear but an article by Rocky on his 330
mile solo descent of the Rio Sirupa in Northern Mexico.


Good article! It reminds me of Rocky, from the "couldn't find a
paddling partner able to go, so I went solo" thru an admonition
that the Rio Sirupa gorge was unrunnable, to dealing with high flows
and thinking about walking out. I'm very glad Rocky is still alive.
Some of his early stores led us to believe he might not be.

Yeah, I did wonder when we'd read his obituary when his first posts
showed up here. :-)

Sometimes you need a little luck, but I'm sure that having enough skill
and wisdom to know what you really shouldn't run definately helps as well.

Chris Bell wrote:

Great read, highly recommended.

Wilko wrote:

Now who are you calling an old timer, mr Bell? ;-)


If the New Schoolers are taking so many risks, why have death rates
for kayakers declined for the past two years?

Amazingly, I've seen more faceguards and full coverage helmets lately.
Maybe we're slowly seeing some sense come into the "wanna look cool"-crowd?

I'm not so sure that there have been less deaths over here, and maybe we
just had a couple of years with relatively high rates instead of these
last two years being low?

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