A Lone Kayaker

Zeke · 04-04-2016, 04:40 PM

He is more alive in the kayak, than those who critique from a couch on their keyboards.

ishoot308 · 04-04-2016, 04:51 PM

She's 17!!...what teenager at that age doesn't make mistakes. I'm thankful she survived and hopefully learned a lesson like we ALL did at that age.

I think back when I was 17 and wonder how I ever survived!!

Dan

noreast · 04-04-2016, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ishoot308

She's 17!!...what teenager at that age doesn't make mistakes. I'm thankful she survived and hopefully learned a lesson like we ALL did at that age.

I think back when I was 17 and wonder how I ever survived!!

Dan

Exactly, could have died many times over from young stupidity. Thank God she's ok. Just goes to show you have to continue to talk to the kids, even when they're old enough to know better.

MAXUM · 04-04-2016, 06:27 PM

Well no BS here, two weeks ago I was in the water for ~3 hours putting in my dock wearing a 7MM wetsuit. While I didn't freeze to death I would not have said it was terribly "comfortable" either. The water was 36 degrees.

I would NOT want to be in that water with anything less on I'll tell you that much.

kawishiwi · 04-04-2016, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeke

He is more alive in the kayak, than those who critique from a couch on their keyboards.

I've climbed Ranier, guided whitwater rafting on sect. 4 of the Chatooga, Winter backpacked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, taught basic rockclimbing, led more than 100 teenagers on wilderness paddling and bacpacking trips far beyond the closest dirt road and in all that and beyond I never did anything as disturbinginly stupid as what that kayaker did.

jeffk · 04-04-2016, 08:45 PM

I don't go out in my kayak on a beautiful summer day without my lifejacket and the reality of hypothermia is unforgiving.

Lots of people do very foolish things and get away with it. There are always a few who don't. I've never thought much of Russian Roulette.

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ishoot308 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Gilford, NH / Welch Island Posts: 6,531 Thanks: 2,453 Thanked 5,465 Times in 2,142 Posts	She's 17!!...what teenager at that age doesn't make mistakes. I'm thankful she survived and hopefully learned a lesson like we ALL did at that age. I think back when I was 17 and wonder how I ever survived!! Dan __________________ It's Always Sunny On Welch Island!!

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MAXUM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kuna ID Posts: 2,755 Thanks: 244 Thanked 1,942 Times in 802 Posts	Well no BS here, two weeks ago I was in the water for ~3 hours putting in my dock wearing a 7MM wetsuit. While I didn't freeze to death I would not have said it was terribly "comfortable" either. The water was 36 degrees. I would NOT want to be in that water with anything less on I'll tell you that much.

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04-04-2016, 08:45 PM	#6
jeffk Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Center Harbor Posts: 1,245 Thanks: 216 Thanked 483 Times in 277 Posts	I don't go out in my kayak on a beautiful summer day without my lifejacket and the reality of hypothermia is unforgiving. Lots of people do very foolish things and get away with it. There are always a few who don't. I've never thought much of Russian Roulette.