Weekly Tips for
"Power Managing" Your Paddlesports Businesses from Tom Shay and the Paddlesports Industry
Association. This is the second in Tom's series of
Power books.
July 18, 2008 Tip #21. Feature
Expensive Items. When building displays of
merchandise, always put the most expensive item at eye
level.
Tip #22. Create a
Management Guide Book. Create a notebook,
complete with examples and directions for completing them,
containing the numerous forms that your business completes
and files with government agencies, insurers, financial
institutions, and more.
Canoe/Kayak/Restaurant
Concession Available in
Illinois
July
18, 2008
Illinois
Department of Natural Resources is seeking to contract a paddlesports operator to run the
restaurant and a canoe/ kayak rental operation, which
provides rafting trips on the State Scenic Middle Fork of
the Vermilion
River
, located in Kickapoo State Recreational Area Oakwood, Illinois.Interested
parties should contact Lisa
Wright for further details.
Ohio
State Fair to Include Kayaking Pond
July
18, 2008
Those
who plan to head to
Columbus
for the annual Ohio State Fair will be able to check out a
new kayaking pond, which will include paddle sports. The
pond is the centerpiece of the 8-acre
Natural
Resources
Park
that is part of the fair, which runs from July 30 to Aug.
10 at the
Ohio
Expo
Center
. Read
more.
North
State Residents Beat the
Summer Heat in Kayaks
From
Redding.com by Joshua Corbelli
July
18, 2008
The
rash of north state wildfires is putting a crimp in many
residents' outdoor plans. But someday this summer the
fires will die down and people will get back out on the
lakes and trails.
A
growing number of north state residents are taking up
kayaking to get out on the water. And with the unforgiving
summer heat here, kayaking is a good solution for
unbearably hot days.
"It's
great to experience the lake from a different perspective.
Being on the water you see things from a different
view," said Susan Weaver, a park ranger at
Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
Garth
Schmeck, owner of Penguin Paddlers in Redding, says
kayaking isn't dangerous.
"Kayaking
can be for everyone," Schmeck said. "It's the
usual assumption that kayaking means white-water kayaking,
when, in reality, white water is the least common form of
kayaking available." Read
more.
Rafting
the Rapids in
Utah
From
The
Washington
Post by Karl Vick
July
18, 2008
For
the first three days, you kind of assume you're in a
western.
The
rock is red. The sky is blue. The clouds, when they show
up, are puffy white. It all glides by at the languid,
satisfyingly informative pace of a panning shot. When the
gaze drifts above the canyon rim, what appears is the
signature iconography of a John Ford film: butte, mesa,
chimney rock.
And
then, on the fourth day, you look up and the oarsman is
gone.
How
odd. That looks like him downstream, swimming frantically
back toward the yellow raft no longer drifting
languorously on the famous Colorado River. Swollen by the
largest snowmelt in recent years, the waterway has
meandered to the point in southern Utah where there are no
more banks to wash over and simply enrich with silt. When
the Colorado reaches Cataract Canyon, the stone walls draw
closer, the bottom pitches forward and the river
accelerates, churning massive waves from left and right to
crash together in the middle. These waves are tall, angry
and of profound concern to Brian when he reappears, almost
magically, in the little boat, grabs the oars and takes a
long look downstream. Read
more.
