15 seconds of fame

A local TV news reporter somehow hooked up with Dave and wanted to do a piece on winter kayaking. By the time everyone's schedule could mesh it's spring, oh well.

So we got interviewed, and I got to paddle for a while with a camcorder taped to my deck and a wireless microphone clipped on my PFD while the "big gun" shot from shore:



(Note to self: Don't roll and try not to splash the camera!)

Hopefully we conveyed both a sense of the safety precautions and reasons we do it.
We'll see what's left after editing.

It should be on tomorrow's (3/26) evening news (WCAX) then on their web site a couple of days later.

edit:
The piece is on their web site under "Destination Recreation".
http://www.wcax.com/Global/category.asp?C=142185&nav=menu183_5

It looks good. Some of the points we thought were important got lost
to editing, but that's generally the case with the media.

The critical eye will see I had bad paddling form, bent elbows, not doing torso rotation. I was avoiding
full strokes because of the camcorder taped to the kayak.

In the story on Nordic skating they skated out to the Palisades. In
middle of the video a huge chunk of ice falls off the cliff sending a
wave through the ice under their feet. A new sport for when the lake is too solid to paddle!