Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:44:16 -0600
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
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From: Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
Subject: Re: Are there Kayaker's among us??
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I was a head coach for Guatemala's Olympic slalom team(of one) at those
'96 games. They never let the coaches run the course which sucked!! It
was a very "educational" 5 weeks we spent there including the security
blanket thrown over the gorge after that bomb went off in Centennial
Square the night before.....that story is for another day.....
DM&FS
On 3/2/2013 10:12 AM, Mark Dearing wrote:
> the Ocoee river in Tenneessee isnt very healtly either but a great run and
> they held the olympics there
> later mdIn a message dated 3/2/2013 10:24:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> mcneely4@COX.NET writes:
>
> ---- Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>> That is truly insane.
> Agreed. but it is done with some regularity nowadays. Why? Thrills.
> Was the first person who strapped on skis for a steep downhill run viewed as
> any less insane? After all, same progression of extreme drop and slope.
>
> Another insanity relating to kayaking: City of Dallas, Texas has built an
> artificial kayak "park and play" facility in the highly polluted Trinity
> River in its downtown portion. They built a steep run with engineered
> hydraulics, confined by concrete walls. The hydraulics create a standing wave
> below the rapid that a kayaker can set up in to do tricks.
>
> Nearby is a sign posted by the Texas Department of Health warning against
> water body contact due to infectious, water borne disease. The warning has
> been current throughout the construction phase, and was when construction
> was proposed. But people use it.
>
> Good grief!!
>> Something similar, wild but not as big a drop, here again on Vancouver
> Island
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mUXpt38AAA
>>
>> alistair
>>
>>
>> On 2013-03-01, at 8:40 PM, JRodgers wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure there are. Here is something for them - and everybody else
> too.
>>> I have taken my van up to this place - Noccalula Falls - for an outing
>>> many times, but this vid is amazing. Usually the water is down - but
> not
>>> this time. This was about a year ago.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z132Np3ze2E
>>>
>>> John
> --
> David McNeely
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