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Keelhauler's Kanews February, 2009 Keelhauler’s Kanews February, 2009 officials about various ways to promote the Keelhaulers and the events we have throughout the year. Part of our goal, as always will be to Next Club Meeting is encourage new membership. However, I feel it is just as important to promote all paddle sports in general. I think we need to make people Saturday, February 7th aware of the paddling opportunities around here and get them into boats. at Pacers Restaurant after the Lakewood Roll We can worry about them being club members after they decide if they like paddling or not. It has been realized that paddling (especially session at 5:30 PM. whitewater) and our club has a major P.R. problem. Most people in Happy Hour, Food and shake away the winter Northeast Ohio have no understanding what it involves or how to go blues with Kayak videos. about getting started. I plan to begin to take steps to remedy that. Our Pacers Menu goal is to work with outdoor shops, other sporting clubs, various event organizers, and any form of media that will give us a minute of their 14600 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH time. We want to bring paddling into the public eye. This will be better A few blocks North of the pool on Detroit across for both the club and the people in our area. One of my personal goals is from the Hospital See Pool Map to spread the sport not just to other active people, but all those couch potatoes watching reality TV. All meetings are open to guests, so invite a prospective member! In mid January, David Hill and I attended a meeting to discuss planning for the upcoming “Year of the River” events. The Cuyahoga River Where in the World is our Community Planning Organization put on this public meeting. Their plan is to bring as much awareness to the river this year as they can. This is due Webmaster? to the fact that it has been 40 years since the infamous fire. They are Check out: http://khmexico08.blogspot.com/ for his latest celebrating the amazing improvements that have taken place since then. moves……. The plan is to have a series of river related events throughout the year. I made it clear to them that we would like to be involved whenever possible. Whether it is having info at a festival both or paddlers on the river. (This is when we will be begging for volunteers!) The other important part of this is that they will be pushing for a lot of media attention. I will be working with them so we can get some press time as well. Of course, all this requires two things. Money and volunteers. I am going to try and do as much of the legwork and PR stuff myself, so we can minimize the need for both of the things mentioned before. But what a better way to give back to your club/sport then by offering a few hours of your time at some event! If you are reading this and not currently a Keelhauler member, I encourage you to join for many reasons. First of all we are trying to A Letter from the Office of Publicity inject some new blood into the club. We need people with energy and new ideas. Secondly, if you are a past member, and don’t like to renew, what Chair Elect: gives? Put away any old grudges or feelings that “I don’t do Keelhauler The club has created a new position- Publicity Chair. I am happy to have trips anymore”. You don’t ever have to show up at any club event and you this opportunity to serve the club as the first to hold this position. I can be anonymous if you like. So please cough up 20 bucks so we can use feel this will be a great way to stimulate this proud and well-established it to help promote the sport we all love. club as well as bring some attention to our sport. I think the Keelhaulers Please feel free to contact me with any advice, criticism, or ideas you are one of the best-kept secrets in town. Up until now I have not done might have. much to serve the club or give back to the paddling community. I am very Peace, Mike Larkin, [email protected], excited to do this now. My job will be to help get the word out about H: 216 486-4833, C: 216 952-9525 our club and the great things it has to offer. I have spoken to club A Whiter Shade of White See, the high water on Flint doesn't just create big- asseted holes and like that there; it also causes trouble at by Matt Muir low bridges. There's one in particular that's pretty low at Low Bridge in December 700 cfs. Above about 1300, it's a real sketch to see (With apologies to Thomas S. Allen) whether or not you can get under it or not. We got some rain on top of snow, We ended up meeting a little after 1:30, with the crick And y'know that means that the crick'll flow. still roarin'. We were four: Adrian, Steve, Drew, and I. We had to get our ducks in a row, The USGS gauge later told us that we were running it at But you know fer sher we wuz gonna go. ~1600 cfs, still the highest I'd ever run it. We had to wait for the ice to clear, By this time, the weather was returning to a wintry 'tude, Cause the shelf can mess you bad, y'hear, with temps in the low 40's and high-wind warnings. But you're gettin' all the play you seek, High wind is great: the flood softens up the trees on the If you find high water on old Flint Creek. banks, and the wind knocks 'em down. Low bridge, I hope you're gettin' ready, The sketchiest bridge is the one after Double Drop. A Low bridge, and you'll have to catch an eddy. quick scout convinced us all to portage the bridge. I 'Cause you ain't gonna stand up thought I saw a line to the left, but with the cold, and straight for a week, big-ol' logs under the right side of the bridge, it was easy If yo' haid whacks the bridge on old Flint Creek. to decide to walk it. There was a hole before the bridge, and though Drew and I made the eddy easily, Adrian got surfed by the hole, making him work harder than he'd expected in order to grab the eddy. Steve found the hole also, and as he extricated, he saw a line, so he changed his mind and went for the bridge, after all; Adrian runs First Drop. he made it fine, though he had to do a serious limbo to get under it. Like most of the Northern states, we had a snowy Did I mention that Steve had just celebrated his 60th beginning to the winter. November snow had me skiing birthday? And that he was the only one of us in a before Thanksgiving. By Christmas, Rochester had over playboat? (You can tell Rob Hammond that there's hope 40 inches of snow! Just after Christmas, however, we for him yet.) got a heavy warming trend with rain. Rain + heavy snowpack Æ heavy snowmelt Æ flood! I began to look at the local club Massage Board, and saw that Adrian had posted about Flint Creek, our favorite local run. It's III-IV, with good play and nice character. During a phone call on Saturday, he told me that it'd be pretty much unrunnable, due to persistent ice. Bummer, because the air temp was around 60°F, which is very rare up here in late December. Flint peaked overnight at ~2400 cfs, nearly twice my previous high. Steve Benedict, the longtime Flint Creek guru, walked it in the early morning and pronounced it substantially ice- free. Adrian would wait 'til after church, which was okay with me, because it was still upwards of 2000 cubes. Low Bridge after Double Drop. At the end, we encountered the Mill Drop, a ten-foot waterfall which is tight and munchy at 500 cfs. A bunch of people came out of the wine bar at the site of the old mill and encouraged us to run it. Their exhortations notwithstanding, there would be no takers. A couple of weeks later, I found out that one of the spectators at the mill was a woman I worked Trippple Drop at 1600 cfs. with. She showed me a hazy, low-rez photo of me in my boat in the take-out eddy. After Flint, I headed for an hour or so of skiing at Soon after Double Drop is Trippple Drop, which usually Bristol Mountain. The mountain had been damaged by culminates in a hole. On this day, it ended with a huge the rain--losing such great trails as Universe, North Star, rooster tail, which I skirted but Steve ran the meat of and Lower Challenger—butt there was good corn snow and pronounced quite tasty. on many runs (and some ugly crusty rutty stuff on There was great surfing all over. Despite the cold, we others). This was the first time I'd ever run made good use of the great play opportunities. And we whitewater…and then run even whiter water! were lucky that the flood-wind combo didn't create any Check out my GPS track from the day at really bad strainers on this wood-infested creek.
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