I'm not that old either, but I agree with CUKayakgirl- competitive spirit isn't male or female, but personal. I never enjoyed team sports because I'm not competitive- I suck at Monopoly for the same reason.
Maybe that's so, and I only can speak from my own experience. But, I did see the same in others, and saw it more clear as I got older and was able to grow up and away from that competitiveness. So more power to the girls that stick together - yeah!
Wouldn't an all-girl rowing/paddling trip be awesome! I don't know any other women rowers either. Although I do loosely know probably one of the best cat-boaters, male or female, but she does crazy creeking stuff and small waterfalls. I get on the Lochsa and think it is big water, for her it is an easy day. Just can't relate and don't overlap in our boating.
Shit, let's make up our own jokes, everyone's easy to laugh at! For now we could just make jokes about Mike wanting to "bend over" when he's 50! LMAO!!!
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Well hell- let's start planning something. I've already got a Lodore for Spring Break and a Salt for the 6th or 12th. I'll be leaving for NC June 10th or so and be back August 1st. So I guess I have a couple 2 week windows the first of June and the 1st of August.
I only applied for a Grand trip since I'll be gone most of the Summer, so I don't have any permits.
Anyone else have an idea or permit for an all girls trip?
Well, maybe we could do an all-girls rowing/paddling trip, with token men as our bow-sprees. My hubby and I are planning Deso in early September,we want to do a trip with the dogs. No date set yet, but don't want to do it in the blasting heat, and dogs aren't allowed till mid August either.
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Sue...Finally...another female paddler close to my age. I am 52, and crazy about paddling, but only started 2 years ago. I have pushed myself pretty hard, but still only paddle mostly class 3 and some short sections of class 4. That probably will be the limit for me. At the end of last year, I got more into playboating. I am a total gong show but at least I roll back up. I love hearing about other 50ish women paddlers...it inspires me
So here's a challenge ladies? Look how well the women's teams did in the vert challenge. Not about competing??? No we all had a great time and did some rivers we wouldn't normally do (3 times at least). If you love to paddle I suggest the mass formation of some more women's teams for vert challenge, it's a great way to meet other women paddlers and travel to their rivers all on neutral funn loving river territory
I encourage all paddlers to join an Eddyflower.com Veritcal Challenge team. The point of the challenge is to raise money for a great cause, First Descents who offers a kayaking camp to young adult with cancer, while paddling as much as you can!
I was a bit amibivalent last year and couldn't talk any of my friends into joining a team, but I signed up as a team of one. In the begining, I thought that I'd just put a sign up at the office and just log the runs I'd normally do, but a competitve desire to do more emerged. Signing up for the challenge was the best thing I did for my paddling: I made new friends, I ran new rivers, and I gave a chance for someone else that has much to gain from the very sport I love.
I saw paddle rafting teams participating in the challenge as well! Just check out the eddyflower.com to get more info.
I encourage all paddlers to join an Eddyflower.com Veritcal Challenge team. The point of the challenge is to raise money for a great cause, First Descents who offers a kayaking camp to young adult with cancer, while paddling as much as you can!
I was a bit amibivalent last year and couldn't talk any of my friends into joining a team, but I signed up as a team of one. In the begining, I thought that I'd just put a sign up at the office and just log the runs I'd normally do, but a competitve desire to do more emerged. Signing up for the challenge was the best thing I did for my paddling: I made new friends, I ran new rivers, and I gave a chance for someone else that has much to gain from the very sport I love.
I saw paddle rafting teams participating in the challenge as well! Just check out the eddyflower.com to get more info.
Well I was thinking, why not? It would be fun. I was reading the info, and saw that it was applicable to only certain runs, and it seems that they don't have a rep that knows the boating around Missoula. Not a single listing for the Clarkfork River (not Clarks Fork), and only 1 for the Blackfoot, a damn long run that is rarely run in one day. I might check with them to see how to add runs, a friend of mine is putting out new river maps, so has gps coordinates and such, which might help them approve the runs. They do list a lot of Lochsa runs, which I hope to run a lot this year.
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Any runs not listed you just need to add to Eddyflower.com:
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The Vertical Challenge is open to all paddlers from all states, however the run details must be listed on EddyFlower and must have a valid put-in elevation and take-out elevation to be eligible. Teams must use put-ins and take-outs defined in the run details for contest credit. See the Rules on the Details page. If your local runs are not listed please let us know and we'd be happy to get the runs listed. Each run listed below is linked to a run details page, just click the run name. The following runs are eligible for the EddyFlower Vertical Challenge (listed) and:
Don't see your local run on this list? Add it here
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I just took a quick look to see how many Montana runs are listed on EddyFlower and how many Montana runs are eligible for the Vertical Challenge i.e. must have Put-in Elevation & Take-out Elevation...
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