Where did you hide the keys? PHOTO SCOTT MACGREGOR
CANADIAN OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP TRAINING
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When catching eddies with hand paddles, think
of grabbing the still water and pull your boat into it. Plant your hand or hands in the eddy and pull your boat into it with your abs and obliques. Do not be afraid to lean way over and use your edges, place both hands on the same side if needed for extra power. If you flip, you are already set up to roll.”
Why don’t paddlers show more initiative in trying to save the
rivers they paddle? Gary George, Minden, ON
You’re absolutely correct Gary; saving rivers is in the best interest of all paddlers. Why are there so few paddlers out there doing anything? Paddlers are selfish and shortsighted. Paddling is essentially masturbation. You’re out
there for the most part trying to pleasure yourself. So the idea of getting together with a bunch of people to fight the man sounds great. But it doesn’t give you the same pleasure as actually doing the thing you love. Unfortunately the eat now, starve later mentality will bankrupt us all. Despite our inability to organize coherently to
save rivers, paddling continues to grow. Anyone paddling longer than five years has seen what this has done to the Ottawa. Who hasn’t gotten up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning to get in a session on Garb, only to find a lineup? It wasn’t always like this but don’t think it’s going to get better. There are so many rivers out there that could
have been run, but no longer are because of dams. Every dam is put there to stop water from falling down. Falling water equals rapids. Rapids equal opportunity to paddle, or in the case of dams, lost opportunity.
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