NYCkayaker Great Hudson River Paddle coming to Yonkers this weekend - (or they'd prefer to be left alone?)

[Steve McAllister]

Don't joke. They are all armed and have been known to get into disputes 
with local paddlers, repeated battles with the Cold Spring area paddlers 
  is well known.


> Aye ... Shiver me timbers matey Arrrrrrrrrrrrrggg
> I'll be firinin me one o' their port bow .........  
> 
> --- On Thu, 7/10/08, Steve Blumling <islesteve7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Steve Blumling <islesteve7 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Great Hudson River Paddle coming to Yonkers this weekend - (or they'd prefer to be left alone?)
>> To: "April Tam" <at_nyc at hotmail.com>
>> Cc: "nyckayaker" <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
>> Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 11:29 PM
>> The people that paddle in the GHRP are mostly loners and
>> vagrant river drifters that really just keep to  themselves
>> and don't even like other people. They wouldn't
>> really want anyone coming out to meet them after a ten day
>> paddle along a hundred and fifty miles of river. I
>> wouldn't really bother them at all if I were you. They
>> might even be dangerous, bi-polar, homicidal or even 
>> suicidal.  They might all poison themselves and be dead
>> before we even get there to meet them just knowing we were
>> coming.
>>
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