Glaser is offering them every Friday and Saturday through September, starting around 5 p.m. The kayaks you'll be paddling are stable, wide-beamed plastic boats. Glaser says she hasn't seen one tip over yet. I can vouch for their stability. My canoe, the Leaky Tiki, has the initial stability of USS Carl Vinson, and Glaser's kayaks made the Tiki feel like a toothpick in a whirlpool.
Most paddlers appear to prefer the independence that single-person kayaks offer.
It was sunny and for a couple of minutes, at least, the real world pretty much took a hike. Glaser grew up on Hood Canal summers, working at the Lake Cushman Resort and tromping the mountains and rivers of Olympic National Park and Forest. She says she wanted to become a ranger, but turned to tax accounting instead. Now, after two decades, she says she's returned to the life on the water. Donald and Ryan both paddle the kayaks, but only Ryan has tried wind gliding.