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Bellingham Stories and Incident Reports
Most or all of these stories come from the Whatcom Paddlers message board archives. Whatcom Paddlers was started by several surfskiers in Bellingham, WA. and is primarily composed of paddlers in the Pacific Northwest although there are some members who reside far and wide. Context may be missing in some cases due to related threads that were missed, attachments to the original messages that are not included here, and web links in messages that no longer work. Some messages in the original threads may not be included because they were deemed to add little to the context (apologies to those authors) and we were trying to streamline the time consuming process of recording these stories to some extent.
Most of these stories are chosen for humor, exceptional paddling adventures and/or lessons learned from fortunately survived mishaps and mistakes. But some also involve very sad outcomes. Whatcom Paddlers has always emphasized its hope to learn from mistakes as much as possible from honest mishap description and examination. But they readily acknowledge the strong human learning bias that favors experience over words of advice. The dates included in story listings are generally the dates of the first posts and not necessarily the exact dates of the happenings described.
2004
2005
2006
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- Monday Madness 12/11/2006 * Followup
- additional comments were included in other message threads…
2007
2008
- A Very Sad Accident 1/31/2008 (November 15, 2007 incident)
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2009
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- July Madness - 1 month total mileage paddled competition
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2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2020
Marine Critters
** Not much to do with actual paddling?
