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Posted by Bill S on April 6, 2008 at 8:43:54 pm EDT
In reply to Water Sports posted by Cyber96 on April 2, 2008 at 5:42:42 pm EDT

I think there are plenty of sites devoted to water activities on the web. One reason I say this is that, although I have done white water kayaking, canoeing, scuba, snorkel, etc. (even a little sailing), I think that this site has more than enough to handle with on-land wilderness activities. Some of the sites I visit that deal with human-powered water sports have lots of people who do motorized water sports wanting their activity discussed (or just come on to promote their jet-ski, water-ski, various levels of power-boating, ...).

As you can tell even with the limited water activity I have been involved in and mention above, that's a whole other ball game with a huge number of different considerations. At least with the land-based wilderness activities, they pretty much have a majority of considerations overlapping. The water-based activities (human-powered) have a majority of their considerations overlapping other human-powered water sports, but mostly not overlapping the land-based activities.

Note that Trailspace (even the name) is geared toward non-machine, human-powered, foot-based land activities - no car camping, no mountain biking (even though many of us here ride bikes on road and/or trail), no parapent, virtually no ski or snowshoe (though several of us here do backcountry skiing, sometimes together).

I'm not saying anything negative about the other activities (especially since I do a number of them - even been known to play a pickup baseball game, or soccer). I just prefer personally to separate my "Trailspace" activities from my mechanized (bike, for example) activities from my water activities, etc. I even park our 7 bicycles in a different part of the garage from the tents, camp stoves, and skis.

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