Not entirely dead, Blakely. I still check in regularly.

Happy New Year to all.

Brad Snow
Fairbanks


"Blakely LaCroix" wrote in message
...
Scott!

Hey man, a sincere Happy New Year to you too!

The newsgroup here is essentially dead. I don't think there is anyone
else even bothers to read this group anymore. Shame that. These
things ebb and flow with a life all their own.

Read some postings a while back that said you ended up selling
your property because of estate issues. If true, I am sorry to hear
that. Land is a funny thing in that you get attached to it. Many times
it
ends being the oldest tradition in the family. To have to sell for taxes,
settlements, is really a tough thing to have to do. I hope all worked
out as best it could.

Are you still writing for a newspaper in Boulder? Any new changes
in the CO water/access rights issues?

While we were never on the same page politically Scott, I always
enjoyed reading your articulate presentations. A worthy intellectual
adversary is a valuable asset. Too bad more people here never
appreciated that. I only regret that, as a casual reader, that I did not
have the time to respond to the level the discussion required.

Touch base from time to time. A few old dinosaurs like me still take
the time to read R.B.P.

May the New Year be one of joy.

Blakely



Scott Weiser wrote:

Boo!

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"Padeen" wrote in message
...
Not entirely dead, Blakely. I still check in regularly.

Happy New Year to all.

Brad Snow
Fairbanks



And I drift in from time to time..

--riverman
Kinshasa, Congo

John, Brad, Myron,

Nice to hear see some old friends pop up. Made my morning.

RBP is awfully quiet. Guess BoatSquak has all the traffic now.
And I suspect some people have gone the Blog route.

Like John said, we really did have some good discussions going
in years past. Some of the river books published even started to
quote the discussions here.

Brad - thought about you just this last weekend while out ice fishing
in a -15 degree day with a 20 mph wind blowing on my back. No
matter how cold it gets, I can still tell everyone "Well it could be
worse - like in Fairbanks". Course the only time I was there it
was June and over 90 degrees. (Did a job for Carr's)
Great town to eat in.

Riverman - still feel guilty about not making that RSA trip. The gap
between what I want to do and what I need to do seems to keep
growing. Really chaps my hide given my love for adventure.

RailTramp at A O L dot com still works as a general email address.

Blakely


riverman wrote:

"Padeen" wrote in message
...
Not entirely dead, Blakely. I still check in regularly.

Happy New Year to all.

Brad Snow
Fairbanks



And I drift in from time to time..

--riverman
Kinshasa, Congo

"Blakely LaCroix" wrote in message
...
John, Brad, Myron,

Nice to hear see some old friends pop up. Made my morning.

RBP is awfully quiet. Guess BoatSquak has all the traffic now.
And I suspect some people have gone the Blog route.

riverman - still feel guilty about not making that RSA trip. The gap
between what I want to do and what I need to do seems to keep
growing. Really chaps my hide given my love for adventure.

RailTramp at A O L dot com still works as a general email address.



Well, no worries. I've managed to explore much of RSA, Congo and the
adjoining countries, but access to honest-to-god canoes seems to be
impossible on this continent. I haven't managed a single soul-fulfilling
canoe trip since Latvia, two years ago. On the other hand, I've committed to
a battery recharging year off next year, with the specific task of doing
some river trips on familar waters as well as some new ones. Maybe we'll
still do something up in your neck of the woods when you have time off....it
looks like I'm going to have a chunk of it :-)

--riverman

Scott, Blakely, John, Brad, riverman,

Hey, if all of you are still hangin' out, how 'bout POSTING ONCE IN A WHILE!
I agree there's not been that much interesting going on, but we could START
something.

Brad, I'd known you were still around, I'd have tried to find you in
Fairbush last summer. My quest this summer was Canada, but I spent
September in AK. I'd had ambitions to do a trip in the Koyukuk, but I was
just too much of a sissy to start off into a howling horizontal whiteout.

Good to hear from everyone.

Fred Klingener

Happy New Year RBP old timers. I still lurk occasionally. Steve Baker

Fred Klingener wrote:

Scott, Blakely, John, Brad, riverman,

Hey, if all of you are still hangin' out, how 'bout POSTING ONCE IN A WHILE!
I agree there's not been that much interesting going on, but we could START
something.
[chop]

My posting style never was to begin a discussion, just to jump into a
discussion already ensuing and add my meretricious piffle into it! ;-)

I did post here once looking for a used drysuit though. Got one too! I
stil wear it, a large Kokatat GoreTEX /w/ built-in neo booties. I had
the latex neck and wrist gaskets replaced this year, and added a pee
zipper too! (Never realized how many rapids I had boated with a full
bladder until I got that pee zipper installed. Yay!)


--
John Kuthe,
1st rule of Govt: protect people from Govt
2nd rule of Govt: protect people from each other
BUT: It must *never* become the job of Govt to protect people from
themselves!

Damn, Fred. Had I known....
I've been guiding in the Brooks for the past five years, mostly June & early
July, and am not always in town, but if anyone does make it this far afield,
do call me, 907-388-0650.
I'm leaving next Saturday for a drive to Miami, a month in S Africa, another
in the Caribbean, then a month paddling around SE America. Maybe we'll
connect somewhere.
Brad


"Fred Klingener" wrote in message
. com...
Scott, Blakely, John, Brad, riverman,

Hey, if all of you are still hangin' out, how 'bout POSTING ONCE IN A
WHILE!
I agree there's not been that much interesting going on, but we could
START
something.

Brad, I'd known you were still around, I'd have tried to find you in
Fairbush last summer. My quest this summer was Canada, but I spent
September in AK. I'd had ambitions to do a trip in the Koyukuk, but I was
just too much of a sissy to start off into a howling horizontal whiteout.

Good to hear from everyone.

Fred Klingener

Brad:

Driving from Fairbanks to Miami? Why not head up to the North Slope
to start and continue down the Key West and set yourself up in the
Guinness Book of World Records as the longest drive in the US?

Blakely

Padeen wrote:

Damn, Fred. Had I known....
I've been guiding in the Brooks for the past five years, mostly June & early
July, and am not always in town, but if anyone does make it this far afield,
do call me, 907-388-0650.
I'm leaving next Saturday for a drive to Miami, a month in S Africa, another
in the Caribbean, then a month paddling around SE America. Maybe we'll
connect somewhere.
Brad

"Fred Klingener" wrote in message
. com...
Scott, Blakely, John, Brad, riverman,

Hey, if all of you are still hangin' out, how 'bout POSTING ONCE IN A
WHILE!
I agree there's not been that much interesting going on, but we could
START
something.

Brad, I'd known you were still around, I'd have tried to find you in
Fairbush last summer. My quest this summer was Canada, but I spent
September in AK. I'd had ambitions to do a trip in the Koyukuk, but I was
just too much of a sissy to start off into a howling horizontal whiteout.

Good to hear from everyone.

Fred Klingener

Padeen wrote:
Not entirely dead, Blakely. I still check in regularly.

And, albeit more irregularly nowadays (just had three weeks of holidays)
I also peek at RBP every once in a while. It just seems that there isn't
much going on here any more, despite some efforts by some of the regulars.

Oh well, the clouds are bursting here, and everything has water, so this
coming weekend I'll be back in my kayak again for the second time this
year! :-)

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Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
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