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I can...canoe?
Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:09:45 -0500, Boater wrote: Vic Smith wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:43:58 -0800 (PST), wrote: Pffttt. what river do you "shoot rapids"??? snerk Now he is shooting the rapids, next he will be telling us about his latest marathon adventure..  LOL. Most places east of the Rockies I thought they just called "shooting the rapids" "paddle a little faster." --Vic Our spot is out in Bentonville along the Shenandoah's South Fork. I and II rapids, enough for me. I don't canoe there, but the rapids around Great Falls, Va., would be enough to send you home crying, if you survived. Fastest water I've canoed was the Current River in the Missouri Ozarks. Not far from where my Ma grew up and where I spent summers as a kid with chickens, a mule, outhouse, well, washtub baths and plenty of spiders. Late spring after a lot of rain. Even though there were fast bumpy places where the river narrowed, faster paddling handled it. I don't know the rapids classification system, and am far from an expert. Seemed about equal to that Deliverance stuff, but without the banjo music and bungholers. No compound bow either. Just always think of shooting the rapids as a "western" thing. I'll reconsider. --Vic I just canoe for fun. There's nothing "competitive" about the way we paddle around. There are a few places on the Shenandoah where we canoe where there are rapids interesting enough for me. I've been planning a run to the Ozarks. My best buddy from my newspaperman days now is a freelance agricultural writer, and lives in the Missouri Ozarks, and he's not too far from a good college buddy, an Episcopal priest who circuit rides the Missouri-Arkansas prison sysems in search of salvageable souls. We've been talking reunion. On this earth. :) |
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