Yukon passage: Rafting 2,000 miles to the Bering Sea
Keith Tryck


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1 A fine tale of modern Huck Finns
This is a great adventure story. No one gets killed. There's lots of checkers-playing. It's just low-key occupants taking in the sights and trying to stay on top of things on a home-made raft floating down the Yukon. No big budget or PR. Just curiosity and gumption. Plenty of nifty human/nature interactions along the way, too.

Not much better than a raft, is there? (OK, a tree fort ranks up there.) ...A raft and some friends hanging out for a summer, drifting along. ...And all the adventures along the way.

Let the Type-A's finance and exploit their uber-complex high-tech Everest assaults. There's plenty of room for adventures on a more human and natural scale, with a wider range for cultural discovery. (Rumination has no place in the do-or-die binary decision-making of extreme adventure.) Start nailing and sawing, see what you can make with the funds at hand, then shove off! Marvel at the clear water and funky characters flowing by. Plenty enough adventures will find you that way as well.

More tales like this, and more folks taking more trips like this, would be more better.



Thursday, 24-Jul-2008 07:54:28 CDT
Quote of the Day:


The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing,

the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its
own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god
of the Northern Ocean, happened once to meet in the realm of Chaos, the god
of the center. Chaos treated them very handsomely and they discussed together
what they could do to repay his kindness. They had noticed that, whereas
everyone else had seven apertures, for sight, hearing, eating, breathing and
so on, Chaos had none. So they decided to make the experiment of boring holes
in him. Every day they bored a hole, and on the seventh day, Chaos died.
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