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Rough Water Kayaking in Norway
It’s that time of year where I don’t get out paddling very much. Devil Track Lake, which I live on, just froze over completely and while the big lake is open, I just ain’t all that motivated to go paddling on it. I’m in that mode where I’ll get out once a month on Lake Superior to try and continue my record of paddling once a month, every month, on the big lake, but I’ll grit my teeth when I do it. Here’s an image from this month’s paddle: I do need to get out paddling in the next couple of days though, because I bought a Nikon AW1, which…
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Photo: Have a Good Caption?
I took this of Andrea Knepper at the Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium. Clearly she’s having fun, but what’s she doing? Do you have a good caption for this photo?
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The Weitzel Tragedy: While the rewards may be great, you might not like the consequences
Kayaker Robert Weitzel passed away tragically on Lake Superior on June 17, 2012. He was attempting to kayak around Lake Superior. At one of the entrances of Yellowstone National Park, they collect the innocent and naive questions that some of the visitors ask when they come to the park, such as “When do the rangers pen up the bison for the evening” or “When do they turn off Old Faithful?” They also collect stories of some of the dangerous things that tourists do there. Years ago a friend of mine related to me an incident that she witnessed as a park employee. A park visitor placed his toddler on the…
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