"invite anyone on a trip who is not a nice person. You can teach a nice person how to camp and paddle, but you can’t teach a skilled jerk to be nice." — Cliff Jacobson
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Things I will never do again include:
- putting Kevlar felt skid plates on a new canoe (ugly, noisy, unnecessary)
- day paddling the east entrance of the Okefenokee Swamp (artificially canalized and boring) (the west entrance is interesting)
How about you?
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Q&A With Expedition Canoeist Cliff Jacobson
His best advice, pet peeves, biggest blunder and where he dreams of paddling next.
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Things I will never do again include:
- putting Kevlar felt skid plates on a new canoe (ugly, noisy, unnecessary)
- day paddling the east entrance of the Okefenokee Swamp (artificially canalized and boring) (the west entrance is interesting)
How about you?