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“ONlY three iN 10 CaNaDiaNs BelieVe YOuNGer PeOPle Will Be Better Off thaN their
PareNts,” or so says a research study produced for the federal government. With the new u.s.
administration feeling they need to flood the country’s financial system with as much as $2.5 trillion, i
doubt we’d find a higher level of optimism from our american readers.
still, there’s no question that when it comes to whitewater boating, this generation is more richly
endowed than mom and dad. We enjoy planing hulls, Gore-tex dry suits and carbon fibre, foam-injected
paddles. rivers that were off limits when our folks were watching The Cosby Show are now accessible.
With 10 years of relative prosperity, we’ve even been able to trench a few runs.
a global financial crisis shouldn’t be much of a shakedown for a community that prides itself on
sleeping in vans in motel parking lots.
1. Return your empties 19. Find money in your ashtray 36. Add wood gunwales to an old
2. Use pool noodles for roof
and sofa canoe
racks 20. Cut your own hair. 37. Don’t loan your friends money
3. Paddle close to home
INSTRUCTIONS: Place helmet
38. Swap your land line
on head. Cut around.
4. Drink Lucky Lager
for VOIP
21. Pack a lunch
5. Sell your paddling
39. Ditch the cell
photos to Rapid
22. Carry tea bags and hot
40. Don’t cut your grass
chocolate mix in your glove
6. Carpool
box. Get free hot water at gas
41. Sell the Wii Fit. Go for a run.
7. Put money in the drop box stations and coffee shops. 42. Stop feeding birds.
(karma, man)
23. Join a paddling club
Eat sunflower seeds.
8. Buy generic brand ibuprofen
24. Buy flip-flops
43. Learn to bake
9. Live like your parents lived
25. Go barefoot
44. Go to gear swaps
10. Don’t golf (as if you needed
26. Find a roommate
45. Live in a garage
another reason)
27. Use the library
46. Dehydrate your own food
11. Buy king-size Snickers bars
28. Stay out of the student pub
47. Don’t listen to hip hop
12. Cancel cable
29. Fibreglass your broken
48. Paddle the boat you own
13. Grow your own
paddle 49. Buy energy bars in bulk
14. Don’t buy insurance
30. Buy a drysuit. Yes, this is 50. Buy everything in bulk
15. Snare rabbits expensive, but it will double
51. Fix your latex gaskets
16. Sell old gear
your paddling days therefore
lowering your overall cost per
52. Pick wild berries for your
17. Take-a-penny
day of paddling.
smoothies
18. Donate your old boat to
31. Turn off the lights
53. Buy a coffeemaker
charity and Dagger, Wave
Sport and Mad River Canoe
32. Ride your bike
54. Don’t buy lottery tickets
will give you 20 per cent off a 33. Take a paddling course
55. Camp
new one
34. Turn down the heat; put on a
56. Cancel your newspaper
sweater
subscriptions
35. Turn off the A/C; get naked
57. Pawn your CDs
58. Shop the day-old bakery rack
60. Boat share
61. Do laundry at your parents’
house
62. Live with your parents
63. Plant a garden
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65. Aquaseal your sprayskirt
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Rapid early summer 2009
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