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cold weather paddling
By:garland reese
Date: 11/19/1999, 10:59 pm

It is finally getting a bit chilly around here. I did not intend on doing any paddling this winter but if the weather stays fairly mild, I might give it a whirl (besides it is relly fun!). Being a former ('bout 25 lbs ago), "avid skinny-tire bicyclist" I know a bit about how to stay warm in the wind and cold, and that low tech fabrics like cotton are not your friend when the chill hits, but How do you dress for canoeing and kayaking? Neoprene? And what about the feet? How about the boat...what would I need to outift the canoe appropriately? The thought of a still water paddle on a cold winter morn is intruiging, but I would not want to become an instant pop-cicle in the process. Sorry for getting off the topic of building....gar

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cold weather paddling
garland reese -- 11/19/1999, 10:59 pm
Re:not former,just hibernating
lee -- 11/20/1999, 6:12 am
Re: cold weather paddling
Dean Trexel -- 11/19/1999, 11:29 pm
Re: cold weather paddling
garland reese -- 11/20/1999, 8:17 am