Summer is Approaching

I've been spending time in the pool doing skills refinement for the past few months with Alaska Kayak School. Very Nice! It's really advantageous to be practicing the basics over and over with a BCU coach. At the last session, a lot of what my coach has been telling me over and over again finally made it into muscle memory. It's very much an "ah-ha" type of moment when a series of motions gels in a new, elegant, 'correct' way.

This Sunday I'll be spending another four hours in the pool, and then during the first weekend in May, I'll be going on my first camping trip of the summer. Can't wait - It'll be a bit cold, and I'll have to spend next week washing/prepping all my gear.

I did get Gordon Brown's book, Sea Kayak: A Manual For Intermediate & Advanced Sea Kayakers, a couple months ago. Very good book - there's a lot of knowledge and experience packed into the book, covering everything from paddling technique to navigation, weather, and reading the water.