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Epitope posted:Kayaks, while not quite hang gliders, are kinda being abandoned. Packrafts, so hot right now. Four-figure pool toys One of my friends has one and manages to lug it up trails to lakes that were previously inaccessible to most paddlers, and I'm legit jealous.
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I got the flatwater kayaking cert from Paddle Canada as part of my degree, which was just pool work in a whitewater kayak, but it came in really handy when I was landing a tandem sit-on-top with my husband on a beach and a toddler ran right into our path. Braked on a dime and the kid got to keep his teeth. Learning the proper skills is worth it!
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May 4, 2017 04:33
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Look up videos on good paddling techniques. It's a lot more fun when you know how to really rock that paddle.
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May 5, 2017 22:07
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Wow, it's even cheap in Canada! That's going on my wishlist.
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May 25, 2017 01:21
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Hey now, imagine the kind of tailwind, imagine how drat fast you'll go! Just don't do what happened to me when I was paddling through Canyonlands: the headwinds were so strong we were being blown upstream. That loving sucked. The waves moving upstream and sloshing us were pretty sizable too.
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Jun 12, 2017 02:17
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You're mostly never too fat to kayak so long as you fit into the open-top models, just consider a realistic turnaround time if you're leaving the shoreline. The fitter you get, the farther out you can go!
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Jun 12, 2017 09:27
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As long as the lake isn't too cold, yeah. Paddlers seem to die a few times a year in the popular lakes here because they get hit with a sudden gust coming down the mountains and tip into near freezing water. If it was a prairie lake the chance of hypothermia would be significantly lessened. There's actually some pretty popular little beach areas due to the warmth of that water.
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Jun 12, 2017 21:46
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