Articles

"Barely a month out of Baghdad, the death of a buddy replaying in his mind, Sgt. Antonio Hamm sat in a borrowed kayak on the stretch of Potomac that is his latest adversary."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060401810.html

I was organizing my bookmarks today and ran across an old Washington Post article about one of the kayaking deaths on the Potomac last October. It's one of the better articles I've read about kayaking in a major paper, so I thought I would add a link to it here.

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It suddenly got cold here in the DC area. After being in the 60s last week it has fallen into the 20s and 30s over the weekend. On Sunday Barbara and I went to the pool session at the Lee District RECenter and I got to practice bowstalls in warm water. Next week maybe we'll try to take some pictures.

It's below freezing again today (19F) which may finally signal the end of our outdoor paddling season. For those of you still brave enough to venture out on the water, here is another good article from the Connecticut Sea Kayakers on dressing for the weather.  (The article is in PDF format, so Acrobat Reader or equivalent is required.)

"Sunday began as just another day of leisure for Tracy Masuda, a Tullahoma native vacationing in Thailand for her three-week Christmas break. But little did Tracy know she was about to witness an event that would not only change her life, but the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world."

Read the rest of the article here .

"On the day after Christmas, Rob and Jennifer Wilcox were thousands of miles from home, finishing up an idyllic, two-week family vacation in Thailand with a day of kayaking at a breathtaking island in the Andaman Sea.

Little did they know that by midmorning they would be using their two-man kayaks to ride out a huge natural disaster -- an earthquake-triggered tsunami that swept across south Asia, killing tens of thousands, wiping out families, erasing towns and rearranging shorelines in numerous countries."

Read the rest of the article:
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/tsunamiloc_010505.htm