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July - September 2006 Newsletter July - September 2006 Newsletter The Newsletter is Back! What’s Inside? You may have noticed the lack of a newsletter About the OKCC .............................................2 over the past few months. The board for the Welcome New & Renewing Members!............2 Oregon Kayak & Canoe Club sincerely Club Trips........................................................3 apologizes for the interruption in the Upcoming Events ............................................4 publication. Rest assured, your club is still OKCC Safety Day ...........................................5 active and planning exciting events and Articles ............................................................6 activities for you, whether or not there is a PPP (Porn, Pizza, Pint) Night – Part 3 ............7 newsletter in your mailbox. Always check our Trip Report ......................................................8 website, www.okcc.org, for the most current From American Whitewater… ....................... 10 information. Pool Session Information ..............................10 Membership Application & Renewal..............11 We are recruiting a new newsletter coordinator at this time. Ideal candidates will have access to a computer, the skills to cut and paste Don’t Miss It! Safety Day 2006 content into a Word document and make it pretty, and the ability to convince or otherwise Don’t forget to sign up for the OKCC’s third coerce people to get that content to you on annual Safety Day, scheduled to take place on time. We try to publish quarterly, so this is a the North Santiam River on Sunday, August 6, few hour commitment every few months. A free 2006. Space is limited so sign up today! More OKCC membership will be your compensation. details inside at page 5. Sound like something you can handle? Please contact OKCC President Jesse Mitchell at Save the Date! [email protected] to volunteer. Clackamas River Clean-Up September 10th Thanks & SYOTR! The OKCC will again be co-sponsoring the -Kristin Sterling Down the River Cleanup on the Lower Clackamas River on Sunday, September 10, 2006. More details inside at page 4. Welcome New & Renewing Members! About the OKCC Wren Anderson The Oregon Kayak & Canoe Club is a group of Chris Augusti boaters in the Portland area who have joined Yotam Aviv together to pursue a common interest in whitewater Heath Barber boating. Our primary focus is to organize river trips Ethan Benatan & Melanie Moon at various skill levels. Safety, as well as enjoyment, Jordan & Maggie Bermingham is considered important on all club-sponsored trips. Jim & Jan Bollerman We are also involved in ocean kayaking, slalom Tim Brink races, instruction, and river conservation. Courtney Brown & Scott Fogarty Membership entitles you to all issues of our Mark Buchweitz Jim Burton & Family newsletter, trip schedules, conservation updates, social events, affiliation with the American Canoe Dana & Brian Carmichael Association and American Whitewater, and an David Carrier Brandon Casey outlet/source for used equipment. Dan Doble Check us out online at www.okcc.org! Also sign up Alisha & Steve Erickson for the club’s Yahoo! Groups email list at Anja & Lonnie Felton groups.yahoo.com/group/okcc/. Hattie Hiatt Greg Holles OKCC Board of Directors Eric Inman David James Jesse Mitchell, President Barbara Johnson [email protected] John Karafotias Kenny Kiley Shannon Crosswhite, VP/Secretary Larry Knell [email protected] Darwin Koistinen Ken Kronholm Kristin Sterling, Treasurer Eric Lindenauer [email protected] Robert Loihl Mike Long Michael & Johanna Lopes Michael Williams, Safety & Training [email protected] Alex Macdonald Dara Massoni Susan Novak Sarah Bryant, Social Chair [email protected] McKay & Jay Nutt Honorary Positions: Jess Ordower Mark Adams, Past President Clifford Priddy Keith DeWit, Conservation Tom Rastetter Mike Elston, Trip Leader Coordinator Ryan Rodgers David Johnson, Races Gail & John Saltveit Carley Schaffer Membership Reminder Sue Scheppele The label on this newsletter contains the expiration Carol Schmidt date of your OKCC membership. Please use the Chad & Libby Schraufnagel form on page 11 to renew your membership. Michelle Simpson Joe Slivinski Mail the completed form along with the appropriate Allen Stratton David & Kendra Summers amount to: Culley & Karrie Thomas Oregon Kayak & Canoe Club Kevin Whilden PO Box 692 Courtney Wilton Portland, OR 97207 Joey Yeaple Ryan Young 2 Club Trips Check your email or the OKCC website at www.okcc.org/events.htm for last minute club trips. Date Location Contact Sunday 7/9 Clackamas (Barton to Carver) Jesse Mitchell [email protected] Saturday 8/5 North Santiam (Niagara to Spencer's Hole) Michael Williams [email protected] (Mid-August) TBA Middle White Salmon Mark Adams [email protected] Saturday 9/16 Tieton River Michael Williams [email protected] All club trips are sanctioned by the American Canoe Association. Non-ACA members may have to pay a $10 insurance fee to participate. Trip Leaders For Future Trips Wanted! would like to give back to those who give back to Read all about the OKCC’s new trip leader policy the Club with their time, effort, and knowledge. To and sign up today! that end, I am pleased to announce the All-New OKCC Trip Leader Volunteer Incentive Program. It seems that, once again, Summer has gripped the The way it will work is, you successfully lead three area in her fiery embrace, squeezing the water from trips for the Club in any given year, and your OKCC our favorite local rivers, driving paddlers far afield in membership renewal dues will be waived for the search of snowmelt-driven drainages, and afflicting following year (a $20 value!) We may also reward nearly everyone with that certain Seasonal you in other ways. So there it is—pretty sweet deal, Affective Disorder that inevitably results from eh? And you now have the opportunity to get in experiencing too many days without rain. In these right on the ground floor of this deal, as there is trying times, it is especially important for us to buck currently a practically unlimited demand for Trip up, see the river as being half full rather than half Leader volunteers right in your town, right NOW! empty (even if it is only at 1/10th of the optimal Don’t delay—those who are interested in taking flow), and enjoy the sunshine and the newly- advantage of this offer should contact Mike Elston exposed riverbed with the perspective that can only at [email protected] , and volunteer to show be achieved from the cockpit of a small, human- some of your fellow paddlers your favorite stretch of powered watercraft. water, or pass on your accumulated paddling expertise. Recently, the OKCC board solemnly and with great deliberation convened at the Lucky Lab and SYOTR! focused its collective brainpower in order to -Mike Elston address this somber state of affairs. After a great deal of weighty discussion and consultation, we came to the consensus that; We should sponsor some river trips (or surfing trips, as the case may be). In order to have more river trips (or surfing trips), we’re going to need some more Trip Leader volunteers. We should figure out some way to con, er, I mean, encourage competent members to volunteer to lead trips. Ultimately it was resolved that, as partial compensation for having to deal with the paperwork, waiver-signing, funds collecting and other administrative Trip Leader tasks that detract from the purity of the kayaking experience, the Club Roll practice on a recent OKCC Barton to Carver club trip. 3 The 2006 trip will begin at Marshall Island Access Upcoming Events north of Eugene and wind its way to Rodgers Landing in Newberg. That'll be 5 days of glorious paddling on this beautiful section of the Willamette Sunday, July 30, 2006 River. Willamette Challenge Race & Willamette Paddle Oregon is suitable for most any paddler with Riverkeeper 10th Anniversary Celebration a little experience. Registration is $575 per person Join in on the first annual Willamette Challenge—a and includes delicious catered meals, insight from 5 mile paddling race benefit & 10th anniversary naturalists and historians, baggage shuttle, celebration for Willamette Riverkeeper at Oaks camping arrangements, showers for two nights, Amusement Park in Portland. entertainment, t-shirts, safety paddlers, and all the logistical details. The Race - 9am to 11am Various teams will compete in a clover leaf boat Visit www.paddleoregon.com for more information race from the banks of the Willamette River. All are and to register. invited to participate. Registration fees start at $30 and include lunch, prizes and ride bracelet. Race Sunday, September 10, 2006 categories, registration forms, and details are online at www.willamette-riverkeeper.org. Clackamas Down the River Clean-up The OKCC will again be teaming up with eNRG The Celebration - 11am to 2pm Kayaking, the Clackamas River Basin Council, the Food, raffle, free canoeing, park rides, display PSU Outdoor Program, Next Adventure, Allstar booths, presentations, and family activities will take Rafting and other area businesses and place at the park. Suggested picnic donation is organizations for the Down the River Cleanup on $10-15. Contact Willamette Riverkeeper at 503- the Lower Clackamas River on Sunday, September 223-6418 or [email protected] for 10, 2006. more information and celebration RSVP. Last year, over 200 volunteers split into two groups The day's events are presented by Yakama
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