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More On Ringham’s Gorge My daughter, who is enrolled in Outdoor
Recreation at Lakehead University, brought home Volume 4, Issue 1 of Rapid Magazine and there was our name on the cover. In our bookcase is a report entitled, Pukaskwa River Canoe Trip from Widgeon Lake via Fox River to Pukaskwa River to Lake Superior. The original trip occurred in 1967 and the
participants included: G.H. (Turk) Bayly who was the Deputy Minister of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, and his brother; along with Angus Scott, the Headmaster of Trinity College; George McCormack, District Forester in White River; Al Pozzo, Fish and Wildlife Supervisor in White River; and my father, Lew Ringham, who was Lands and Forests' Regional Director in Northwestern Ontario. Their equipment con- sisted of a 16-foot aluminum and two 16-foot fibreglass canoes. We've heard stories about Ringham's
Portage, but we weren't aware the gorge had taken on our family name. Rest assured we will forward a copy of Rapid to my dad.
Bill Ringham Thunder Bay
C1 Outfitting I just bought a boat and was reading back
through my old Rapid Mags and found Mark Scriver’s article on C1 outfitting [Summer 2001]. Your mag helped me a lot in my outfit- ting but I decided to run a thigh strap system as opposed to a seatbelt. My boat is a Prijon Delirious with their special blow molded plas- tic. Will I be able to use contact cement to attach the D-rings to my boat?
Brock Scott Email
I don't know any glue that will keep D-rings attached to polyethylene boats. You could use a Perception or Dagger console designed for thigh straps. I have also seen paddlers anchor straps to rigid things like paddle shafts or kayak seat rails fastened to the front and back pillar. Since there is a lot of force on the thigh straps, the pillars need to be beefed up and glued to the hull so they can’t move. I have heard of D-rings being plastic welded to poly- ethylene boats but I understand it’s tricky and I wouldn't let anyone try it unless they have pre- vious, successful experience. Good Luck!
Mark Scriver
Finding the Best Flow on the Pet I greatly enjoyed the article on the Upper Petawawa in Rapid [“Finding Flow on the Upper Petawawa”, Summer 2002]. It looks to be the sort of technical river I love to run. I was wondering if you had any further information on
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appropriate water levels. What should the Petawawa be running at on the Highway 17 gauge to make the Upper Petawawa a good run?
Glenn Wallace Email
We’ve run it in both spring flood and mid-sum- mer levels. The river features change signifi- cantly. Spring is a thumping high volume run, whereas 2-3 on the gauge is far less pushy and more technical.—Ed
Canoer Lost, Canoeist Gained CanoeRoots is definitely more pleasurable
reading than any other canoe mag and I think I've tried them all. What is missing from those other mags is the canoeist theme as opposed to the run-of-the-mill canoer topics [Rapid Mag’s annual canoeing buyer’s guide CanoeRoots Magazine, Jeff Jackson’s article, “Canoeist or Canoer–Why One and Not the Other?”]
I think I must be a potential canoeist. I've always had a love for the canoe that I could never explain but it was only last October when I bought my own.
My epiphany came on my third trip out. During the first half-hour I was impatient with the slow progress I was making in my canoe. Then it hit me. I needed to slow my inner-self to the speed of the canoe. From that point on, I enjoy the trip. I see more in the landscape, skies and riverbeds. But more importantly, I feel more. It's not the arriving somewhere in the canoe that is the pleasure. It is the trip itself. This is why I think I am a potential canoeist. Can you recommend any other reading material for a canoeist? Keep up the great, deeper work.
Art Roberts Burlington, Ontario
I’m glad you have found your true canoeist self. Before you bury yourself in a library full of canoe drivel, lame doctoral thesi, and profes- sor-on-sabbatical projects perhaps you should reread Jackson’s article, I think you might have missed his point. Pay particular attention to this line: “At the point where one forgets what being a canoer is all about is when the sphere of canoeing has been left behind and some realm of elitism has been entered.” —Ed
Trespassing or a Right to Paddle? Thanks for reporting on the infamous inci- dent at Ottawa's Hog's Back Falls [Summer 2002]. The unauthorized run has generated a great deal of interest among whitewater pad- dlers here in Canada's Ocean Playground, particularly among the miscreants who ignore the NO TRESPASSING signs and insist on paddling right through the DND's Bedford Rifle
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