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Friday, November 27, 2009

Bill Waters

Over the years we had the pleasure of Kens' company on many climbs, hikes and ski trips. This past Aug we spent a week canoeing with Ken and Ruth, Brian and Liz in the LaVerendre area of Canada. As with everything he did, Ken had a system refined through years of trial and error and we all benefited from his experience. Each morning the boats were loaded and we paddled off for the day. Each evening we sat in Kens' screen house and ate, played cards or just talked. Kens' system was such that he always seemed to have exactly what he needed close at hand, the oven he baked the brownies in, the map to look over the next days' route possibilities, or one of his famous tasteless jokes. I prefer to have nothing I need close by and make multiple trips from the screen house to the tent ( in the pouring rain) and back. Ken had gone through several periods of chemotherapy by this time, one ending just a day or two before we left. It did'nt slow him down or diminish his enjoyment of each day in any way that he ever let on.
We are all very fortunate to to have had Ken in our lives. The time was brief it's true, but Ken has left something of himself with us all. We will always smile when we think of him, even if we sometimes cry as well.
See ya'll Sunday
$ and Carol

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