I have to renew my ACA cert this year, so I'm going to sign up to do an Advanced Open Water workshop with SS at Neah Bay in November.
I didn't paddle between the 1st weekend in June and the 4th weekend in August. 
That is hard on the ticker!
Shawn
: Remember our aborted trip up the Olympic Coast this July? The guy that
: inspired it, with the timing of the trip, hooking up with us at Kalaloch
: as they were coming all the way up from the Oregon border, is 74 years
: old. At his retirement from a large aerospace company here in town, he
: paddled from his home to Ketchikan, taking 60 days. Last year I
: accompanied him up from near Sitka around the exposed islands and into
: cross Sound, across Icy Strait and into Glacier. My friend Scott was with
: him as they paddled from Craig around the Maurelle, Coronation groups and
: across to Port Alexander on Baranov.On other trips he's paddled the
: Ketchikan to Craig route and the Sitka to Hot Springs-West Chichigof and
: Sitka to Pt Alexander.
: About 10 years ago he crossed over from Alaska to Russia via the Bering
: Strait. Done much of the Sea of Cortez, too. Last summer, at 73 he
: summitted Rainier for the umteenth time. Hell of a resume for retirement,
: eh?
: Rob G
