Don’t be so rigid

Re “Mad Dance on the Water” (April 6): My friends and I paddled plastic Hollowform slalom kayaks in the early 1970s. I was a neophyte, but some of my friends went into new areas of the river and did outrageous tricks in plastic kayaks. These places and tricks would be impossible in a rigid fiberglass kayak. All of this happened before commercial outfitters and whitewater shops opened along the river in Kernville.

Ken Rogers

Beverly Hills