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Listen "Hammer Factor – Episode 47, ‘Dan Gavere, Whitewater SUP and Why Kayakers Are Cheap’’"
Episode Synopsis
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In this episode we discuss Whitewater SUP with paddling legend Dan Gavere! But first #everythingisfucked...
Hat tip to Jake Risch, did you get an invite to be on the panel Louis?
Zinke seems to be at it again:
https://medium.com/westwise/zinke-stacks-the-deck-on-outdoor-recreation-committee-8b4adf298175
But last time zinke tried his tricks he got slapped down:
https://medium.com/westwise/congress-rebukes-the-trump-zinke-proposal-to-disembowel-park-and-conservation-budgets-a3e2cb5c0989
Is Zinke being muted after the bears ears shrinking? Has the hammer factor nation constant show of support for public lands had an affect. Even if the zinkster isn’t listening seems congress is.
Listener Mail:
From Michael Gallimore
Thank you all for addressing the fact that sometimes you really do have to "eat your vegetables." The only people who can afford to not be political are the ones whose rights are not being threatened. If you like kayaking and recreating on public lands, this is an issue that will never go away. West Virginia is a microcosm for the rest of the country, where pristine environments and beautiful rivers are always at the risk of the extractive resource industry. Thank you Louis and Hammer Factor for always keeping us in the know.
From Covey Baack
It was good to hear the Cannabis talk! I will be representing a Cannabis Company this year as well!!
From Rico 420
Dear Hammer Factor,
I really enjoyed listening to episode 46 and getting all of the gang's take on the issues presented by pot in kayaking. It was interesting to hear how some on the panel viewed the "devil's lettuce" as a performance enhancer while others saw it as a performance inhibitor. I feel like this disconnect is reflected across the broader community of kayakers, and that we as the Hammer Factor community have the perfect platform to solve this problem once and for all.
I think that everyone who listens to the show should be challenged to kayak their favorite river and SUP 5 miles of flatwater into a headwind back to back two times; once sober and once balls-to-the-wall stoned. After each attempt, they will fill out a detailed questionnaire rating aspects of their experience and how the "jazz cabbage" affected them. (I'm currently speaking with several M.D.'s to gain insight for the questionnaire) This will give us more data regarding the effects of marijuana than any other study to date and help the Hammer Factor gain traction in the medical news community (Which I'm sure will help out Grace's pocketbook).
Anywho, I've got the brilliant idea, you guys have the means to make it happen. Lets make some magic boys. We owe it to ourselves and to the whitewater community at large.
Sincerely,
From Anonymous
To start I'd like to remain anonymous if this is used on the air. I'll also do my best to keep this brief.
Thanks for the recent episode regarding the most recent river deaths, as a Seattle boater the loss of Sam hit us all very hard. With that said I'd like to address something in regards to how we deal with river accidents.
As a culture/community/sport when these accidents happen we don't do a good job of analyzing the accident. If you look to the Mountaineering, rock climbing, backcountry ski world when there is death or even a accident that leads to injury they do a much better job of doing a forensic analysis of what happened that lead to the accident (links below). They look at the Environmental factors, decisions made, and Heuristic traps that leads to the incidents.
I've noticed that when something like a death happens on the river people don't want to talk about these kinds of details, it's almost as if by talking about the details we'll be speaking poorly of the dead. That if we say out loud (for example) that the water was High, they put on at 1:00pm in December, and that they were only a group of 2 is to admit that they might have made poor decisions tha...
In this episode we discuss Whitewater SUP with paddling legend Dan Gavere! But first #everythingisfucked...
Hat tip to Jake Risch, did you get an invite to be on the panel Louis?
Zinke seems to be at it again:
https://medium.com/westwise/zinke-stacks-the-deck-on-outdoor-recreation-committee-8b4adf298175
But last time zinke tried his tricks he got slapped down:
https://medium.com/westwise/congress-rebukes-the-trump-zinke-proposal-to-disembowel-park-and-conservation-budgets-a3e2cb5c0989
Is Zinke being muted after the bears ears shrinking? Has the hammer factor nation constant show of support for public lands had an affect. Even if the zinkster isn’t listening seems congress is.
Listener Mail:
From Michael Gallimore
Thank you all for addressing the fact that sometimes you really do have to "eat your vegetables." The only people who can afford to not be political are the ones whose rights are not being threatened. If you like kayaking and recreating on public lands, this is an issue that will never go away. West Virginia is a microcosm for the rest of the country, where pristine environments and beautiful rivers are always at the risk of the extractive resource industry. Thank you Louis and Hammer Factor for always keeping us in the know.
From Covey Baack
It was good to hear the Cannabis talk! I will be representing a Cannabis Company this year as well!!
From Rico 420
Dear Hammer Factor,
I really enjoyed listening to episode 46 and getting all of the gang's take on the issues presented by pot in kayaking. It was interesting to hear how some on the panel viewed the "devil's lettuce" as a performance enhancer while others saw it as a performance inhibitor. I feel like this disconnect is reflected across the broader community of kayakers, and that we as the Hammer Factor community have the perfect platform to solve this problem once and for all.
I think that everyone who listens to the show should be challenged to kayak their favorite river and SUP 5 miles of flatwater into a headwind back to back two times; once sober and once balls-to-the-wall stoned. After each attempt, they will fill out a detailed questionnaire rating aspects of their experience and how the "jazz cabbage" affected them. (I'm currently speaking with several M.D.'s to gain insight for the questionnaire) This will give us more data regarding the effects of marijuana than any other study to date and help the Hammer Factor gain traction in the medical news community (Which I'm sure will help out Grace's pocketbook).
Anywho, I've got the brilliant idea, you guys have the means to make it happen. Lets make some magic boys. We owe it to ourselves and to the whitewater community at large.
Sincerely,
From Anonymous
To start I'd like to remain anonymous if this is used on the air. I'll also do my best to keep this brief.
Thanks for the recent episode regarding the most recent river deaths, as a Seattle boater the loss of Sam hit us all very hard. With that said I'd like to address something in regards to how we deal with river accidents.
As a culture/community/sport when these accidents happen we don't do a good job of analyzing the accident. If you look to the Mountaineering, rock climbing, backcountry ski world when there is death or even a accident that leads to injury they do a much better job of doing a forensic analysis of what happened that lead to the accident (links below). They look at the Environmental factors, decisions made, and Heuristic traps that leads to the incidents.
I've noticed that when something like a death happens on the river people don't want to talk about these kinds of details, it's almost as if by talking about the details we'll be speaking poorly of the dead. That if we say out loud (for example) that the water was High, they put on at 1:00pm in December, and that they were only a group of 2 is to admit that they might have made poor decisions tha...
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