Date:         Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:44:16 -0600
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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