--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:

> http://images.google.com/images?q=sawanabori
> connects quite a full range of stream climbing experiences
> from flat waters thru vertical falls
> all under the single rubric of sawanobori

You must mean:
http://images.google.com/images?q=sawanobori

> i wonder what the word means in japanese

"Climbing . . . a stream or rapids which run in the valley of the
steep mountains," according to:
http://www2g.biglobe.ne.jp/~lilimaru/eng/e_aboutus.htm

Bon voyage!
theia

(I would like to get to the source of this too.)

> & about its origin & history
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> <orc@o...> wrote:
> > have been seeking this confirmation for at least 10 years
> > yesss
> > http://www.geocities.co.jp/Outdoors/3063/mitani.htm
> > http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/hi-nishi/sawanobori.html
> > thanx to alternative spelling
> >
> > so it looks to be mainly or all about climbing cataracts
> >
> > yet sometimes apparently includes fishing
> > http://www2g.biglobe.ne.jp/~lilimaru/eng/e_nikki.htm
> > yikes
> >
> >
> > i believe schultheis however spelled it sawanabori &
> suggested
> > reaching the source was essential to the sport or ritual
> > performance or whatever it is
> >
> > so perhaps there are several things going on here
> >
> >
> > todays thames sourcing adventure has gotten pushed back

> > late afternoon at the earliest but is still looking real