Riding Dirty; Kayaking through the dead center of Philadelphia.
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David Speers
Apr 29, 2009, 8:51:16 PM4/29/09
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Read this last week in the City Paper and thought ya'll would enjoy this . . . (or be inspired to organize something similar)
"The Schuylkill is a mysterious beast. It's a living thing that, for the most part, has remained shrouded from the very population it spawned and sustains. It cuts Philadelphia in half, more or less, yet once it reaches Center City, most of us never see more than a glimpse from a car window or bridge railing.
The plan was to paddle down the most obscured segment, the 7-mile stretch between the Walnut Street Bridge and the Delaware River, downstream from the pastoral beauty of the Falls Bridge, Kelly Drive and the waterfall behind the Art Museum. My friend Dominic Mercier — who once swam in the upper, friendlier Schuylkill as part of a triathlon — and I would go in kayaks; photographer Michael M. Koehler and his friend, filmmaker Elan Gepner, a canoe.
On a journalistic level, we wanted to see what Philadelphians are missing and take pictures of it. We also just wanted to see if we could do it."
Read the whole 'Riding Dirty' Story
Watch the video
"The Schuylkill is a mysterious beast. It's a living thing that, for the most part, has remained shrouded from the very population it spawned and sustains. It cuts Philadelphia in half, more or less, yet once it reaches Center City, most of us never see more than a glimpse from a car window or bridge railing.
The plan was to paddle down the most obscured segment, the 7-mile stretch between the Walnut Street Bridge and the Delaware River, downstream from the pastoral beauty of the Falls Bridge, Kelly Drive and the waterfall behind the Art Museum. My friend Dominic Mercier — who once swam in the upper, friendlier Schuylkill as part of a triathlon — and I would go in kayaks; photographer Michael M. Koehler and his friend, filmmaker Elan Gepner, a canoe.
On a journalistic level, we wanted to see what Philadelphians are missing and take pictures of it. We also just wanted to see if we could do it."
Read the whole 'Riding Dirty' Story
Watch the video
ruthdeb
May 12, 2009, 10:12:15 PM5/12/09
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This looks like lots of fun. If anybody wants to go, take me with
you!
(This weekend is supposed to be rainy though, I hear.)
you!
(This weekend is supposed to be rainy though, I hear.)
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