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Sunday was the third annual OOPTIKS symposium, and this year it was held in my backyard, at Skamokawa Vista Park<\/a>. OOPTIKS is sort of a cross between SSTIKS, the South Sound Traditional Inuit Kayaking Symposium<\/a> and OOPS, the Oregon Ocean Paddling Society<\/a>, a Portland area kayaking club. OOPTIKS was started three years ago, as a way to get the instructors from SSTIKS together with the folks in OOPS who were interested in learning more about Greenland style paddling.<\/p>\n

There were about 35 attendees and about 15 instructors this year, and the weather, which has persisted in being kind of cold and cloudy and rainy lately, broke open into a beautiful sunny day for this event. In the morning, there were a variety of strokes classes and then at lunch there was a short harpoon throwing demo. After lunch, things split up into games, more strokes classes, and a very heavy contingent of people wanting to learn Greenland style rolling techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As usual, I had a hard time getting good pictures in the bright light, and then loading them to Flickr<\/a>, where most of my pix are hosted, seems to bleach them out even more, but here’s a few of them anyway. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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