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Download- River Is Up Inside: ,,P-.P = -Pucker Up& - It's Canyon Creek Al so... -,- Special , Interview' with -- Eric Jackson perception" Official Supplier of the U.S. Canoe and Kayak Team Don't look back. ,e are Iolaces where it's iustI, vou and the river. ~'veleft your deadlines at the put in. Rush hour idlock has been replaced with tight drops. ck has given way to split-second , at 1 -800-KAYAK96, ext. 107. Amazing river machines when you call. Letters ............................................. 5 Forum ............................................................ 4 r The World According to Bob by Bob Gedekoh Briefs ..........................................................68 To Be The Best ,! V Race and Release Schedules V Surfing Cyberspace for River Levels V Film Festival Winners V Further Adventures of Ed the Hairboater Conservation The Creek Boaters of V OCOEE River Project ........................ 11 V Inside the beltway .............................. 32 Chattanooga V Canyon Creek .................................... 19 by Scott Shoupe Safety 'I Escape Vertical Pins &Entrapments .. 66 by Richard Penny and Paul Martzen Access Tshletshy Creek by Gary Korb V The Real Risk of Boating ................... 24 V Georgia Rivers ................................... 26 Humor V The Amu Darya Incident ................... 87 by Jonathon Katz The Real McCoy by Michael Deckerl Frontcover Caney Fork by Scott Shoupe, winner of the National by Roger Pollard Paddling Film Festival Slide competition Back Cover: Another 1995 Film Festival favorite by Jon Soul Her Hands by Ret Talbot Printed on Recycled Paper May/June 1995 5.4 These are rapids that I have only paddled once, and for a specific reason. The World Like the fact that women in my party did it first, and made it look easy... Double Undercut on the Lower Meadow. Or the According to Bob fact that the only other option was to starve to death on the riverbank, because Dear Charlie Walbridge and there was no way to portage... Do or Die Lee Belknap: Members, AWA on the Middle Fork of the Feather. Safety Committee 5.5 These are rapids that I have been thinking about running for years, but I I hear that since I announced to the never seem to work up the nerve. (Some- world in the last issue that you were times I dream about running them, and I modifying and expanding the AWA class always do just fine!) Big Splat on the Big V rating that you have been deluged with Sandy. suggestions and proposals. I know your tentative plan is to make the new system 5.6 These are rapids that I would analogous to the one rock climbers use to surely paddle, if they didn't have a class rate the difficulty of various routes. 5.3 approach and a recirculating, under- I said in my Forum last month that I cut whirlpool at the bottom. Great Falls thought you should rely on the opinions of the Potomac. of expert boaters who are currently pad- dlina near the edge in develo~inathis 5.7 These are rapids that probably newsystem. I also a~knowl~~e~that ago. Coliseum on the Cheat, or Shoulder wouldn't kill me if challenged them, but since I hardly fit that description, that I Snapper on the Tygart, for example. they would almost surely beat the snot should keep my ideas regarding this mat- out of me. (When I dream about running ter to myself. 5.1 These are easy class V rapids that them, I have nightmares!) But after giving this some consider- don't worry me any more... though Tomko Falls on the Upper Blackwater. ation, I have changed my mind. After all, maybe they should, since they still man- why shouldn't I put my two cents worth age to knock me over about one in ten 5.8 These are rapids that I will almost into the soup, like everyone else? I may times. Pillow Rock or Iron Ring on the certainly never run, even though they not be a suicidal maniac, but I am, at Gauley, for instance. have been hand paddled by gutsy and tal- least, somewhat self destructive... and ented experts. Jacob's Ladder on the N. that should count for something! 5.2 These are rapids that make me Fork of the Payette. Besides the system I have devised is nervous, but I still usually paddle, espe- incredibly simple... yet quite specific and cially if someone has a camera. Swallow 5.9 These are rapids whose names are easy to use. I'm sure you'll want to incor- Falls on the Top Yough, for example. so horrible that I am quite sure I will porate a lot, if not all, of it into the final never attempt them, even though I AWA product. Read on and see for your- 5.3 These are rapids that I run, but haven't even seen them. Frankenstein on selves... only under specific circumstances. One, the Green Narrows. the level must be just right and the sun 5.0 These are the rapids that I know, must be shining. Two, I haven't had sex 5.10 These are rapids where I worry deep down inside, are really class IV, but for at least a week. Three, beautiful about catching the eddies to start the por- were given a class V rating by an excit- women are watching. Pine Creek on the tage, even though those eddies are as big able guidebook author, ten or more years Arkansas. as farm ponds. Home of Sweet Jesus on Editor: Bob Gedekoh, Box 228, R.D.#4, Elizabeth, Pa. 15037 Emeritus Editor: Chris Koll Graphic design: John K. Victor, 396 Church St., Chillicothe, OH 45601 Contributing writers: Pope Barrow, Howard Davidson, carla Garrison, Joe Greiner, Rich Hoffman, Jonathan Katz, John Weld, Mark White Production Assistant: Teresa Augustin Advertising Director: Phyllis Horowitz, Box 85, Phoenicia, New York 12464 (914) 688-5569 Safety: Charlie Walbridge Conservation: Rich Bowers, 1430 Fenwick Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone(301) 589-9453 Fax(301) 589-6121 Missing Copies and Address Changes: Contact Phyllis Horowitz American Whitewater is printed by SPENCER WALKER PRESS,INC., Newark OH . All rights reserved. American Whitewaterv ~ay/hne 1995 the Lower Meadow. 5.11 These are rapids so frightening that I don't even like to walk along them, for fear I might slip and fall in. The it?), this does not excuse the trip leaders Niagara Gorge. from negligence. Why any "experienced Dear Bob, and well qualified trip leaders", would 5.12 These are rapids that are so in- have put in the river that day with a nov- timidating that I have to close my eyes I read with interest the January-Feb- ice paddler is beyond comprehension. when someone else runs them, even on a ruary, 1995 issue of the AWA Journal. I This obviouslywas negligence on the trip video. The Falls of the Little River. noted, on page 22, the article dealing with leaders' part, and the college's for result- "Access" and the comment dealing with ant vicarious liability for the paddling 5.13 These rapids are so awful that Trip Leader Liability. club's actions and resulted in the case be- they even scare Johnny Regan. Gorilla Unfortunately,the author of the ar- ing settled. on the Green Narrows. ticle did not comment on all of the de- Many clubs are trying to get away tails. &om the "trip leader" connotation to that 5.14 These are rapids that Eric Jack- The facts, as I understand them, are of "trip coordinator" and having all club son says are worse than Gorilla. Stair- that the participant in this unfortunate members sign a waiver of liability. How- way to Heaven on Bear Creek. drowning was a novice paddler, a young ever, even if this had been in use in the woman from Dartmouth College's Pad- present situation, the obvious negligence 5.15 These are rapids so treacherous, dling Club. On the day of the incident, of the more experienced members of the so difficult, so downright mean and vi- the West River was in flood stage from paddling club, who lead the victim, would cious, that no one has ever attempted prior overnight heavy rain and run-off, in mv ooinion render anv waiver invalid them. Not even the brothers Snyder, or adding to the normal water release from and ~hhecollege/clubstill"be held liable the brothers Kern!!! ...??? ... (There must the Ball Mountain dam. for damages. be a rapid somewhere they won't run, but Although an argument can be made right now I can't think of one!) concerning the victim's possible con- Very truly yours. tributory negligence for paddling on a Peter G. Wallace So, there you have it. Brilliant, huh? river in flood stage, (was she aware of Flushing, NY I know my system might seem a bit egocentric, but that's the beauty of it! Rather than having a lot of people fight- ing over how a rapid should be rated, the AWA can just leave it all up to me. In fact, I would suggest that I be given a position as the Official Rapid Rater for Perception the organization. You could send me all ~orizbnLine over the country... expenses paid, of course... to pass judgement on the diffi- Craphite culty of class V whitewater. 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