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ongoing struggle to fund the legal battle being
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waged by les Amis du Rivière Kipawa to pro-
tect our right to paddle the Kipawa River and by Festive thoughts
extension many others, esprit Rafting agreed to
To Scott and the crew at Rapid Media, thanks
donate the proceeds of one week’s revenues to
for another great Palmer fest. you guys always
les Amis. yes, I said revenues, not profits. They
put on a great event!
gave every cent they made that week but still
Peter farr
had to pay their staff, and feed and house their
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fortunate guests, all the while putting on a first-
class Week of Rivers trip in Mexico. In support
Just a quick note to say congratulations for put-
of this initiative, level Six, h2O Paddles and
ting together a fantastic whitewater event. for
the Thousand Islands Kayaking company also
me, and I know for many others, it really is the
kicked in incentives to sweeten the pot.
coolest whitewater event of the year!
needless to say, I signed up. I’d like to say
Ken Whiting
I was doing it for charity, but there was sure a PuBlISheR, The helIcOnIA PReSS
lot of benefit in there for me too. It turned out to
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be a fantastic travel experience with everything
from a three-day paddling trip and a full day of
It’s been four years now that I have been taking
waterfalls to watching local horse races and
in Palmer fest and each year I think it couldn’t
pre-colonial ruins. fantastic!
possibly get better—I’m always wrong about
Bryan McKenzie
that. I’ve seen snow, rain, incredible heat and
OTTAWA, On equally imposing swarms of blackflies and none
of that ever hampers the spirits of the hundreds
Time flies
of people you host. I’ve seen children learn their
roll, seniors realize what they’ve been missing
Reading your 10th Anniversary edition of Rapid
and instructors and pro paddlers re-invigorated
was the first time I realized how long I’ve been
about why they began to paddle in the first
paddling. I picked up your very first copy at
place. People should know that your annual
gauley fest in ’99 and have been a subscriber
paddling festival is the best going; one where
ever since. Ben Alysworth once wrote in Reac-
people can have their first paddling experience
tionary that chicks and babies kill paddlers. I
or old dogs, like myself, can learn a few new
laughed when I read the column, but it could
tricks. See you next year.
have happened to me. If not for an understand-
Peter Struck
ing wife and your magazine I’d have traded my
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paddle for a set of golf clubs. now my eight-
year-old and I are on the river together more
often than I’ve ever paddled. By the end of your
write us
next 10 years, he’ll be 18 and surely kicking my
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