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Tuesday, 2 August 05 :: dammit.

there's a report on the news about a difficult and scary section of the mckenzie where 2 people have been killed.

they've shown the section of river.

maybe i'm just too much of a purist.. but really.. THAT IS NOT A DIFFICULT SECTION OF THE RIVER. what it is is too many stupid people feel like rivers should be easy for them to go down, that they don't need to know shit before they get in a boat of some sort to go out and play on them.

idiots.

i'm sorry, but rivers are not playgrounds.. well, they can be.. but only with necessary knowledge. go learn something about rivers before going down them. wear your fucking lifejackets before getting on one. don't blame the river and mother nature for your fucking mistakes.

posted by brooke at August 2, 2005 06:32 PM

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Hey B -

Give us a link to the story and the pictures if you can.

Maybe we should blow up the rapids to make them safer?

posted by: H at August 3, 2005 08:13 AM

Story Here

I saw this, too and worried about you - then I saw the name and the fact that she wasn't wearing a lifejacket.... then I knew it couldn't be you :)

posted by: MustangSally at August 4, 2005 01:50 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.