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I am equally impressed with your strong opinions also, however, I hope you have spent a lot more time on the river than you have on internet forums to verify your suspicions. a lot more can be learned from spending an afternoon at High Rocks in July, or Bonnie Lure State Park in October. Or a boat ramp on the Columbia in September, or Williamette in April. Then you could form an unbiased opinion on the local rivers. All of the above are less than 30 minutes from SE Portland. And all of those are in cell phone range.Hi Folks,
I am impressed that so many people have such strong opinions on this topic, but, I am afraid that my suspicions have been verified.
In my opinion, thats hogwash, respectively. Using your same reasoning, it is unsafe to take that same kid to school via public transportation. Its unsafe to walk to the corner store.It is, unfortunately, unsafe to use the access facilities that your licensing dollars go toward providing you. That is unless you are a thug, a criminal, or are carrying a gun.
This is not acceptable to me, nor should it be to you. While I appreciate all the input that you all have offered, the one thing that seems to be missing is an offer of a solution. (Packing is NOT a solution to this problem.)
I'm more then sure like anything eles you do in life there are there times when something bad happens, but also know they are very far and few between and I mean very far and very few.
With all that said I'm not trying to start anything here but do have to wonder what it is about my reply that you felt the need to single me out on?