Subject: Re: [baidarka] Cold water paddling
From: wolfgang brinck (nativewater@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 15:00:02 EST
--- cholst@bitstream.net wrote:
> Last night at the monthly meeting of the North Star Ski Touring
> Club, the
> speaker described one day in Grand Marais, Minnesota, when he saw
> somebody
> standing on an ice floe. The person jumped into the water, swam to
> the
> next ice floe, climbed out, crossed the ice, jumped in again, and
> so forth
> until he reached shore at the Folk House. It turned out to be
> Lonnie
> Dupree practicing for one of his Arctic trips!
>
If your drysuit gaskets are tight, diving and swimming off ice floes
is great fun. It shouldn't be more fun than normal diving and
swimming, but the idea that you can have that much fun in the water
in the middle of winter gives this activity an extra thrill.
Wolfgang
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