Harmless fun has turned deadly in Eugene, before. It was popular to “surf” on a knee-board attached to a rope under the pedestrian bridge near Autzen. Fall into the fast, cold water, and you may be in trouble.
I read the post and was going to ask if, on a related subject, you’d heard of Stever Prefontaine. Then I saw that it was you—so a different question:
any idea if Mr. K taught Steve? I think the dates about line up, but the school was about three times what it is now, and it was before Mr. K’s running days, so it wouldn’t be as natural to connect the two.
I very nearly drowned in a canoeing accident there in 1971.