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Re: Has anyone every refused to give a fellow paddler a ride back to the top? Will_Carry New
Re: So you let it go? Did Ya? duckypaddler New
Date: Jul 05 2008, 19:38 GMT
From: Will_Carry

	So I'm standing in tha parking lot of the takeout. There is only on vehicle their and I figure it's a fisherman. I'm about to stow my boat in the woods and start hiking when this lone open boater paddles up. At the time I had no idea what Willian Nealy looked like. I had heard he had quit paddling and gotten in to mountain biking. Anyway...I asked for a ride to the top and he said "sure" and I helped him tie the boats onto his rack.  Usually in this situation we would have had the "paddling resume" conversation on the drive up. But he did not say a word and neither did I. I was not an uncomfortable silence, we just didn't talk. When we got to the top I unloaded my boat thanked him and he drove off.        I wasn't until I saw a picture of him in his obituary that I realize who it was.

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