Now, that scandalous article presents a very biased veiw of the Spring River. True, there are a lot of people, and when a lot of people gather, there are going to be some roudies. Last weekend was pleasant, there were very few people on the river and at the camps. The weather was perfect - cloudy and warm during the day - warm enough to swim but cloudy enough not to get hot. Each night it rained hard, which made the noisy bunch in the next campsite shut up and go into their leaking tents to grumble. We, cozy in our good quality gear, were snug as a bug. The water was swift and tricky. We ran Saddler Falls several times for fun and surfed the waves at the bottom, or jumped in and swam the rapids, whilst most of the other clientelle lost it before they even got to the tricky part, and their canoes and gear came floating down without them. Most humorous was when it was a father and son in the son in the stern and bow, with mom or sis a well-coiffed bouffant-topped river queen sitting in a tall lawn chair in the middle of the canoe, obsessing about not getting wet. It was quite entertaining to sit at a little falls and watch them fall in, esp. since we had just run the falls successfully ourselves. Smugness and conceit really adds to the humor of the situation. --Lawrence Lile ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Skeels" To: Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:33 PM Subject: [OT]: Canoe Speedometer/drunks (way [OT] ) > > > > You can gauge your pace on most rivers around here by passing drunks in > > canoes. Each drunk in a canoe counts as 1/2 since there are usually two > of > > them, so you can set a pace of, say, 10 drunks-per-hour. Since the drunks > > don't paddle, they are going the same speed as the water. Therefore, > > drunks-per-hour equates to water speed very precisely. No electronics > > required! > > > > > > Apparently, ther is more than just a little trouble with drunks on the > Spring.... > > http://www.arktimes.com/010803coverstorya.html > > > Mark > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics