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Re: TR: Flathead Lake "Safe but Sorry"
Posted By: Shawn Baker In Response To: Re: TR: Flathead Lake "Safe but Sorry" (Robert Woodard)
Date: Tuesday, 21 September 1999, at 9:51 a.m.
> I think it is pretty easy to second guess yourself. If you had gone on and
> not had any problems, would you have felt any better? Decisions that I
> made to push the envelope still sometimes bother me today, but I never
> have any worries when I decide to play it safe.That's very true, Woody. I have some tiny regrets but no worries.
> There is some consolation in that if you play it safe, you'll probably
> have the opportunity to try again...That was my final consolation to myself! Maybe I should learn to make my decisions quicker and thus save myself the agonizing.
> As for would the wetsuit bottoms have been enough, I don't know. I'm still
> trying to figure out the emersion formula. I own a wet suit, just ordered
> my dry suit, have worked my pawlata up to be 99.9% effective on the first
> try, and my screw roll up to be about 50%. All that and I don't know WHEN
> I should switch from shorts to the wetsuit to the dry suit. If someone
> would develope a water temperature chart my life would be so much less
> complicated 8^)It wouldn't have been _only_ the wetsuit bottoms--I wear them with my drytop, which I was wearing--I was well-protected for paddling and rolling, but if I were to take an inadvertent swim, my legs and important parts would get cold.
I wear shorts whenever the water is warm enough I'd consider swimming in it for an hour or so. Wetsuit and drysuit can be somewhat interchangeable, although you can wear just a pair of farmer johns for moderately warm water/weather. I'd say wear the wetsuit whenever the water is below 70*F. Is your drysuit Goretex? If not, you'll probably only want to wear it when the air temperature is at or below 50-55*.
Shawn
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