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43-year-old Family Canoe Trip
- keithwhor 2y agoGreat read. I think connecting with nature while you’re young is great — when you’re older, even better. Would love to read more of these.
- phyzix5761 2y ago[flagged]
- rescripting 2y agoUsing AI to summarize a piece meant to be a reflection on our humanity and our relationships is so profoundly sad to me. Either take the time to read it, or don't. You'll get nothing of value asking for bullet points.
- gausswho 2y agoThis is a severe take. I for one read the summary and decided the full piece was worth reading. But I get it. Summaries can suck the joy out of the journey sometimes. An alternate approach I've been taking is seeding my own Kagi assistant with context of who I am and what I like, then asking it, not for a summary, but if the long read is something I would enjoy. It usually is right.
- KevinGlass 2y agoThis sort of post should result in a permanent ban on any platform. If someone thinks it's too long they can copy and paste it themselves.
- phyzix5761 2y agoThank you for your reply but to suggest that someone get permanently banned from a website is a bit extreme. I'm just a human being like you trying to help out other humans. The read was very long for me and I thought that adding a summary would help others in a similar situation.
- aspenmayer 2y agoAI generated comments are against HN guidelines.
- phyzix5761 2y agoIn the comment I explicitly stated it was a summary from ChatGPT so it's not an AI generated comment. Also, the terms of use and guidelines don't talk about AI used in comments. For your reference: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aspenmayer 2y agoFor your reference: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22generated%20comments%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- snickerer 2y agoThis is beautiful. I would really like to know how his father's trip influenced the author's life. He mentions this several times, but does not explain.
- pge 2y agoIf you watch the video at the end of the article, you may get a better sense of it
- noduerme 2y agoPortland callin. Great article. My friend has canoed the entire Willammette River a few times, solo and with friends, and loves it... he makes it almost sound like a Huck Finn adventure, stopping in at weird private landings, dive bars, river parties, sleeping in the parks, making friends with strangers. Personally, I'd be terrified to embark on a trip like this. I wish I had the confidence that I would be able to survive a bad day or two of food poisoning with nowhere to go.
- nefrix 2y agoNice story. I wish I were closer to the area so I could explore its nature. Paddling is one of the activities that makes me feel more present—no time for scrolling while slowly moving through the water. For the last 10 years, I’ve gone once or twice a year to the Danube swamps to disconnect and recharge. We’re lucky there aren’t any crocodiles!”
- timonoko 2y agoI traveled from the other side of the world just to make various trips on the Inside passage. Verdict: Like Norway coast, but without services and Norwegians, who can be little bit tight-ass on their property rights. https://youtu.be/1DDcX9_te5I?si=XvLbijrZAZE-XHyF https://youtu.be/1DDcX9_te5I?si=XvLbijrZAZE-XHyF
- plantain 2y agoDoesn't Norway have the right to roam?
- defrost 2y agoSure, we couldn't stop it if we wanted to. It does tend to move in lockstep with the other countries on the Eurasian Plate though, and its rate of roaming peaks at 14mm or so a year.
- timonoko 2y agoNordic Countries always had it, because various nomadic lifestyles. But when it was written to law, Norwegians and Sweden invented 3 days limit on camping. Only purpose of this was to decimate the indigenous Sami-culture. Finland does not have such limits, only vague statements of permanent settlements.
- keizo 2y agocool to see paddling of any kind on hacker news. The short doc video was a great watch.
- 6stringmerc 2y agoAlso relevant is Henry David Thoreau’s trip with his brother: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Week_on_the_Concord_and_Merrimack_Rivers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Week_on_the_Concord_and_Me... It was very pleasant jail reading. In truth it’s about 30% trip diary and 70% musings on the nature of life, friendships, religion, and language.
- eulgro 2y agoWhat selection of books do they have in jail?
- marktl 2y agoBen, the authors brother, is a friend of mine. Ben happens to be a very successful and capable software engineer.
- pfd1986 2y agoVery nice. The story sounds very familiar to me, maybe the movie was part of Banff film festival?
- yimby2001 2y agoI’ve done a lot of canoeing. It doesn’t even seem possible that you could canoe in the Pacific Ocean for any amount of time without being swamped.
- pge 2y agoThat part of the Pacific is very sheltered by islands so it is often fairly calm. The First Nations people have hunted and traveled in canoes there for many generations (unlike the Inuit on the eastern arctic and in Greenland that used sealed kayaks where the water was rougher).
- donkeyboy 2y agoA very wholesome read. Thank you for sharing. I’ve never been so into outdoors/camping/fishing, but it made me reflect on some of my adventure trips I’m doing right now while I’m still young. And maybe these will be talked about in my future family.