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Canoeist's Q & A: Scenarios for Serious Canoeists
By MICHAEL PEAKE
Che-Mun Editor
By Cliff Jacobson.
ICS Books, 126pp C$13.50 US$9.95
ISBN: 1-57034-055-2
Cliff Jacobson has been churning out great canoeing books for a good long time. It must be hard to keep coming up with good ideas but he seems to be able to.
Canoeist's Q&A is his latest effort and quite entertaining.
Cliff examines 36 scenarios that could easily be familiar to many wilderness canoeists. We featured one a few outfits ago when Cliff sent us one.
The key element of these what-ifs is that they are taken from real life and set on familiar northern waters. The format is familiar for most scenarios. He sets it up in The Scenario. Then The Question is followed by Action Taken and The Answer. There are also a number of FAQs which Cliff definitively answers.
A typical scenario: Eight experienced canoeists are camped at a picturesque site along the Seal River in remote, northern Manitoba. It's seven p.m. and the cook announces that supper will be ready at nine. He suggests that those who are not involved with preparing the meal get lost for a couple hours.
Excited at the opportunity for some free time, six people decide to go exploring. Two strike out together in one direction; the rest go their separate ways. Unknown to the group leader, no one brings a map, compass, matches or flashlight.
The Question: nine o'clock approaches and the explorers haven't returned. Yelling produces no response. At 9:30, the light begins to fade and there's still no sign of anyone. The two men in camp have a whistle, three orange smoke signals, two 15-second flares, a high-powered rifle, compass, maps and a battery powered GPS. A cheery fire has been burning for hours. You're the group leader, what should you do.
You'll have to buy the book to find out.
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