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Re:  Full face helment, elbow pads that extend to the wrist, rescue life jacket, extra beeniers, Long sleeve paddlin drytop, Louie New
Date: Jul 22 2008, 2:26 GMT
From: AKyak
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Ok, so I guess the issue is no knife?? So I don't see the problem with full face helmet, elbow pads, first aid kit, and paddlin' jacket on a play run??? Granted, I've never paddled the Ocoee, but it sounds like the kind of crowded play run where catching a paddle blade in the face in a crowded eddy is more likely than smashing your face on a steep creek where you do everything possible to keep from flipping. I used to take off my mask for the Nenana (Interior Alaska's most crowded weekend play run), and then realized I spent much more time upside down playing on pourovers on class II-III than I did creeking. I also learned after hitting an elbow on a rock on a class III run and finding it painful to set my elbow on a table for the next year that those Fox BMX pads fit quite comfortably under my paddling top. Maybe its 'cuz I'm an Alaskan paddler, and that hiking out to the road on a class III play run can turn into a major misadventure that I always have carry a first aid kit and spare 4 piece paddle in my playboat. Of course, I know of at least three head, face, dental, and hand injuries on a favorite class III run, where either me or my son and I were the only ones with major first aid gear in our playboats. The last time I helped provide first aid for a broken tooth and split-open lip after the first drop below the put-in, I heled hike the victim up top the road with a mouth full of my gauze. Then I hiked back down and used the slings in my pin kit to help drag three kayakers' gear half a mile uphill out of a canyon, while they drove to a hospital. The victim and her husband thought that my first aid kit and facecmask seemed like pretty good ideas. Oh, yeah. I had a rescue life jacket, too. It had some of the slings and extra 'biners we used for hauling her boat out in the front pocket. Guess I was pretty over prepared; 'specially since I had a knife....didn't need it to open any beers lately, though. So your point is...they were unprepared to open a beer????
Have Fun, Play Hard, Be Safe ( even if others ridicule you... )
AKyak ;{
P.S. - and don't forget about that River Karma...its powerful stuff :) .. And I love y'all southern boaters anyhow. Even Louie. And I don't know 'nuttin 'bout paddlin on the Ocoee at 90 degrees, so don't take it personally. And I'm only 51.
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