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August 2009 Newsletter
Wild Rock Source for Adventure Newsletter
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RENTAL BOAT SALE
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 Wild Rock's rental boat sale is underway. How it works: Put a 20% deposit down on any rental boat ASAP. Pay the balance and pick up the boat anytime between September 9th and 30th.
Canoes
Mad River Expedition 18'
Reg $2799 Used $1850 (2 avail)
Mad River Explorer 16'
Reg $3149 Used $1550 (1 avail)
Quessy Oddessy 16' Kevlar
Reg $1999 Used $1250
Quessy Oddessy 16' FG
Reg $999 Used $650
Quessy Propector 16' Kevlar
Reg $1999 Used $1250
Quessy Propector 16' FG
Reg $999 Used $650
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Summer Clearance on Clothing
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 Wild Rock is clearing much of it's clothing by Lole, Patagonia, Horny Toad, Royal Robbins and The North Face. Save up to 60% of remaining sizes and styles. |
| Sleeping Bag and Mat Sale |
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Sierra Designs Aulavik Sleeping Bag and Pack Mat (72"x20"x1.5") self inflating mat. Both for $99.99
QOR Modena Down Sleeping bag and Chinook Guide Rest Lite mat (72"x20"x1.5"). Both for $169.99
This new QOR sleeping bag we have designed is substantially wider than a typical mummy bag but still has a hood to hunker down into on a cold night. The Modena Down has a specially designed system to hold your sleeping mattress in place for those more active sleepers among us. Add to that great quality 650 fill power white goose down and you get one great sleeping bag.
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| Ride for Africycle |
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We at Wild Rock have had the priviledge of helping people prepare, watch them get excited about a great adventure and then tell the stories after the fact. We thought you might be interested in hearing a little bit about what people in your community and beyond are up to. Read to the end to see how you can get involved.
This was written by Michael Siddall, from Africycle.
On July 3rd of this year, a group of 19 bicycle riders and 5 supporters departed from Peterborough, Ontario and traveled over 1000km's around the Great Lake Ontario, arriving back in Peterborough 10 days later. Cycling counter-clockwise around the lake, the opposite direction of last year's trip, the group cycled around the lake to raise awareness and support for Africycle, a Canadian based Charity.
A resounding success, the ride was an amazing trip, great weather, good food and especially great people! Rider Michael Vanderherberg shares his experience on the Ride for Africycle: "What I remember most on this Ride for Africycle tour of 2009 is laughing with good friends, meeting good people, and raising money and awareness for a good cause. The hardest day of the trip was this: cycling from Kingston to Presqu'Ile Provincial Park, 130 kilometres that day, against the worst headwind of the trip. The day started with rain after the worst night's sleep of the trip and probably the worst breakfast as well. Unsafe with cars whizzing by in the rain, cold from the chill, driven to arrive in Picton before noon for a photo shoot, and struggling with struggling Rotary members, determining that the Presqu'Ile park sign couldn't come soon enough. And yet, despite being welcomed by more rain, we laughed. And we smiled, and we clapped for each other as we came into the campsite, and we smiled as we feasted on a fine meal from our support crew. Life wasn't that bad after all among good friends, having struggled together, and having come out more cohesive on the other side."
To learn more about the Ride for Africycle 3.0, or to get information about joining the Ride for Africycle 4.0 in 2010, please visit www.rideforafricycle.comAfricycle seeks to improve access to transportation in South East Africa, with current projects focussed on Malawi. Africycle sends recycled bicycles from North America to Malawi, as a means of using the bicycle as a tool for economic and community development. Through the Africycle Malawi shop (established in 2007), Malawian workers prepare each bicycle for sale, providing a better quality bicycle to the public for a reduced price than what is currently availible in Malawi. The sales of these bicycles help to develop the bicycle as an effective tool for change in Malawi, giving opportunities to many by creating inexpensive transportation solutions. A reliable, high quality bicycle is a vital tool in everyday life to a Malawian. From an ambulance, school bus, and pick up truck...the bicycle is a tool for everyday life. By providing bicycles at a lower cost, Malawians are better able to focus their resources on family needs, allowing for healthier meals, school fees, etc. The vision of Africycle, is to use the bicycle as a catalyst for breaking the cycle of poverty in Malawi. To learn more about Africycle, or to support the work being done in Africa please visit www.africycle.org.
Lisa Power travelled to Africa recently and was inspired by the work of Africycle. Lisa is collecting bicycles for them and if you donate a bike to the cause, she will give you a coupon from Wild Rock for $50 toward a new bike! Contact anne@wildrock.net if you are interested and want more info. Click here to find out what happens to your donated bike. |
| Fitness Paddling |
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Wild Rock Outfitters would like to present Paddli  ng for Fitness! Wednesdays and Fridays join us at 6:30 at Beavermead Park to enjoy an hour and a half recreational paddle around little lake. All skill levels welcome! Improve your skills, meet fellow paddling enthusiasts and enjoy the local outdoors. Bring your own boat or call the store to reserve a rental canoe or kayak.
This is a no charge community event except for a rental kayak if needed. Contact briar@wildrock.net for details.
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| Scott's Rant |
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RISK? Our society has really got to get a grip on risk. It worries me in two ways; there are countless people worrying themselves sick over perceived risks that are small to minimal and similarly there is a large group who take enormous risks without a thought.
Where is this risk assesment learned? We are born with almost no fears. Is it our parents, media, school, church that create poor risk assesment skills in people?
First of all lets discuss the risk of what. Let's take the big prize death.
1. heart disease
2. cancer
3. stroke
4. chronic lower respiratory diseases
5. accidental injury
So how do we avoid the top 4? Eat well, stay active, don't smoke and keep your weight in check generally lowers these risks.
#5 is the one I see people in my line of work worrying about. The 300lb guy smoking the Export A's picking up bear spray for the weekend. What are the chances of getting killed by a bear?
Lets' look at what kills men in Canada.
2,376 Motor vehicle collisions 1 death every 4 hrs.
2,317 Substance abuse 1 death every 4 hrs.
1,932 Suicide, non-firearm 1 death every 5 hrs.
1,559 Mental Disorders 1 death every 6 hrs.
1,288 HIV 1 death every 7 hrs.
991 Suicide by Firearms 1 death every 9 hrs.
985 Accidental falls 1 death every 9 hrs.
528 Accidental poisoning 1 death every 16.5 hrs.
487 Homicides all causes 1 death every 18 hrs.
309 Homicide, non-firearm 1 death every 28 hrs.
178 Homicide, by firearm 1 death every 2 days
142 Homicide, by cutting/piercing 1 death every 3 days
74 Surgical/medical misadventure 1 death every 5 days
61 Fatal gun accidents 1 death every 6 days
Don't see bear attacks there anywhere because there have been 14 fatal Black Bear attacks in North America since 1999! There are more than 10 people killed per year in Canada by lightning but we don't sell any lightning rods. On an annualized rate it makes you almost 10 times more likely to get killed by lightning then a bear. Not that I mind selling things but the fact we sell cases of bear spray and no lightning protection seems odd.
The worry of the day is the flu (which kills 1.5/100,000 people), but last year it was West Nile (but wait there were "0" clinical cases in Ontario in 2009), and before that it was Lyme's Disease. Had you forgotten about Lyme's disease? The media has forgotten but it has not forgotten us. There were 35 new cases last year in Ontario alone. Thankfully they are rarely fatal but it is interesting people have forgotten about it.
So what about cycling. Per annum since 2002 we are looking at 78 cyclists killed every year. Sad but it pales to the 487 deaths by homicides in Canada by year or 757 pedestrians.
What about whitewater kayaking? At 5.5-8.7 per million paddling days it seems pretty small. In 2001, the highway fatality rate in the United States was 1.52 per million miles traveled. If we very conservatively estimate that the average distance traveled to kayak or raft is 50km (that would mean the average whitewater boater has a fatality risk of dying on the highway of 152 per million trips in the car vs. 5.5-8.7 per million in the boat.
So before you pass on more skewed risk assesments to those around you please give it a thought. Is the thing I am nervous about doing or my loved one is about to embark on actually very dangerous or are my own issues clouding my judgement.
So please stop worrying about things that are not likely to happen. Look after your health, keep away from guns and people with guns, give your mental health the care and attention it deserves and stop driving your car so much.
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| Mountain Biking at Sir Sam's! |
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 Sir Sam's ski and snowboard resort is now open in the summer for mountain biking!
Seven kilometers of mountain bike trails provide beginner and advanced riders with some outstanding climbs, descents and technical challenges as you peddle your way up, down and through open fields and hardwood forests once walked on by Sir Sam himself. Cross Country and Downhill Mountain bike rentals are available and you can even have your bike transported to the top of the hill. A Pump Track is also in place. The resort will host an Ontario Cup Downhill Race on August 15th and 16th and run a Tuesday night race series.
For more info, go to www.sirsams.com
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| If you are pro pedestrian/cyclist |
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 Take time and write our Council. Cut and paste, modify or write your own.
Send it to:
Malcolm Hunt mhunt@peterborough.ca
Brian Bouchardt BBuchardt@peterborough.ca
Our Mayor D. Paul Ayotte mayor@peterborough.ca
Dear Mayor, Councilors and Planners,
Please be leaders and shift the focus of new investment in the transportation network from cars to alternative modes of transportation and pedestrians. This will ease the congestion on the streets and parking areas, promote health and wellness and prepare Peterborough for the increasing scarcity of petroleum in the future.
This long term planning will burden our tax base less; in the short term by decreasing direct costs and the long term by decreasing the burden on our health systems in the future. Cars are not a long term solution to transportation. Let's plan ahead for a healthier and more accessible town.
In the immediate future please make pedestrians and bicycles a priority for the Charlotte St improvements and any Little Lake developments considered.
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