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North Fork Feather River-Jlusf Add Water.. . Page 28 North Fork Feather River-Jlusf Add Water... page 28 Peoplern .& don't i F f .A <, co. in one size. .I I L '& xhy.should - what happens when you design the perfect all-river craft, and then scale it down for the under 170 crowd? ARCT" and SPARCTM, that's what. Two kayaks with a combined hull shape for great stability. Easy to learn in... Perfect for play... Just the type of boat where you can do just about anything. Except outgrow 'em. ARC ' - 9 -3 . 56 gallons SPARC ' - 9'-2 , 48 gallons I Risa and Woody's version of R8D. rapid descent ... Baby Falls. Tellico River. East Tennessee. Photo by: Christopher Smith ) perceptione one . - with the umter % "4 11 1 kayaker way k" easley, s.c 29641 "Q Letters ......................................7 97 Moose Fest A Wild One? Forum ......................................4 r Whitewater Winter by Bob Gedekoh Getting Stampeded by the Moose Briefs ...................................100 by Matt Muir 42 r North Branch of the Potomac Releases r AW Affiliates Americans Kayak in lapan r Whitewater Honor Roll by Nikki Malatin 46 River Voices ................................... 83 r The Woe of Blue Ridge Lake East Meets West on the Big South Fork r Big Thrills In NJ... Taking It by Don Kinser 52 r Into My Classroom r Entrails of Ernie r Telemetric Gauges & Politically Correct Steep Creeking Japanese Style Prediction Models by Nathan Lewis 56 Conservation .................................. 17 r Director's Cut An Adventure on the Clavey r Life as a Regional Coordinator by Bruce M. Generaux 62 r ACA Scores Victory on the Pigeon r Hydropower Update Safety .................................... 75 My River - A Place of Perspective r Yearend Whitewater Fatality Report by Dieter King 67 by Charlie Walbridge r Close Calls by Charlie Walbridge North Fork of the Stanislaus Access .................................. 31 ~hotokatureby Brandon Knapp 70 r Middle Fork and the Main Salmon r North Fork Feather River, Just add Water Creekin' Southern Style & Whitewater Travel Planner by Ben Solomon 72 Events .................................. 33 r AWA Events Central r 1998 nschedule of Rlver Events r 1998 NOWR Point Series Announced Cover: Photo by Don CochranlPhotography Shreddin' the Moose I Publication Title: American Whitewater Issue Date: March /April 1998 Statement of Frequency: Published bi-monthly Authorized Organization's Name and Address: American Whitewater P.O. Box 636 Margretville, NY 12455 Printed on Recycled Paper Now that's fun! I can't imagine why I used to have so much trouble talking my friends into going with me! But this winter I've been lucky. I've had the pleasure of sharing rivers, not to mention shuttles, with two hard core kayakers who Whitewater are just as fanatic as me. And although Chuck Morris and Joe Hatcher are relatively new acquaintances, when you run serious Winter whitewater under adverse conditions with the same companions day after day, you soon By Bob Gedekoh find out what makes them tick. So I feel like I've known Joe and Chuck for a long time and I spend a lot of time in my kayak. In 1996 I consider them to be very good friends. They I was on the river 207 days. 1997 was a bit of are the kind of guys you can count on, both a disappointment. Low water, emergency on and off the river. surgery and a new job cut into my river time. Chuck and Joe have a lot of enthusiasm I only got to boat 147 days. (I don't imagine and I've learned quite a bit from them... new I can expect much sympathy from most of lines down the familiar rivers we paddle, and you!) But 1998 is off to a promising start - maybe a little radical creeking technique. I 22 days in January and eight days in February don't know if they have learned anything - and it's only the 14th. from me, besides tolerance! I've paddledwith hundreds of people dur- But there aren't many serious winter Chuck and Joe are better boaters than I ing the past twenty years. Many of these boaters around. Oh, I know a lot of you claim will ever be. This is particularly embarrass- whitewater acquaintances became close to be winter boaters. But if you passed up a ing for me to admit in Joe's case because, friends. Unfortunately, priorities like wives, day on the river to watch the Superbowl, or although he grew up in Morgantown, W.Va., husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, pets, chil- spentvalentines Day whispering sweet noth- within spitting distance of the Cheat, Joe has dren, elderly parents, careers and "other in- ings instead of boating, you are suspect. only been kayaking for two years. Chuck, on terests," prevent most of them from hitting Paddling the Gauley in November or the the other hand, has been kayaking since he the water as often as I do. Cheat in March doesn't cut it. Neither does was a teenager growingup in Ohiopyle, Penn- This seems to be especially true on win- sneaking off to Chile or Costa Rica in Decem- sylvania, the put-in for the Lower Yough. So ter days, when there is a foot of snow on the ber. In my book, unless you've boated at least it should come as no surprise that he is an ground and the daytime temperature peaks four times in January, you can't claim to be exceptional boater. Nevertheless, I've been in the 20s. You'd be amazed at the lame a bona fide winter boater. kayaking three times longer than Chuck. excuses people make to dodge winter Genuine winter boating means skidding whitewater fun! And while I'm perfectly will- into a snow bank on the way to river. Wind- ing to paddle alone under conditions that shields cracked by flying cinders. Frozen most people would describe as miserable, knots clutching your kayak to the roof rack. biking the shuttle afterwards in a drysuit A sheet of ice on the seat of your boat. Glazed with frozen feet can be nasty. When it comes zippers on PFDs and drysuits. Icicles dan- to winter boating, it's good to have a little gling from the front of your helmet. Frozen company. moustaches and ears and toes and fingers. The opinions expressed in the features and editorials of American Whitewater are ? those of the individual au- Editor: Bob Gedekoh, Box 228, R.D.#4, Elizabeth, Pa. 15037 Emeritus Editor: Chris Koll Assistant Editor: Ambrose Tuscano Associate Editor: Bill Sedivy Contributing: Editors: John Weld. Po~eBarrow Art dire~tiohra~hicdesign/Produe~on: John K.Victor Contributingwriters: Carla Garrison, Jonathan Katz, Ed Ditto, Lee Belknap, Joe Greiner, Mark White, Bruce Farrenkopf, Nathan Lewis, Brik Miller, John Foss, Paul Tefft, Howard Davidson Production Assistant: Richard and Teresa Augustin Advertising Director: Phyllis Horowitz, Box 636, Margaretville, New York 12455 (914) 586- 2355 Safety Editor: Charlie Walbridge, 230 Penllyn Pike, Blue Bell, PA 19422; Phone 215-646-0157; fax 215-643-0668; email [email protected]. Conservation and Access Editors: Rich Bowers, Rich Hoffman, John Gangemi,l430 Fenwick Lane, Silver Spring, MD, 20910 Phone (301) 589-9453 Fax (301) 589-6121, email: [email protected], [email protected] Missing Copies and Address Changes: Contact Phyllis Horowitz American Whitewater is printed by SPENCER WALKER PRESS, INC., Newark OH. All rights reserved. American Whitewater v March/Apri/ 7998 You'd thinkthat my years of experiencewould We hurried through the rest of the Sandy ling them, but most of the time I know my count for something! because Chuckhad toget home for his father's limitations. Every now and then his enthusi- But Chuck, 25, and Joe, who is 23, have birthday party. asm overwhelms my better judgement and I two things going for them that I lack, youth Why did I have to ask?. "How old is your give one of his hot dog moves a shot. Some- and fearlessness. When they look at a long, dad?" times I do okay. Hey, even a blind squirrel treacherous rapid, they see possibilities. I, on "Forty four", he said, shaking his head, as finds an acorn once in a while. the other hand, see consequences. if his father were as ancient as Methuselah. ButsometimesIgetworked. Mostmemo- I remember the first day I boated alone "How old are you?" he continued. rably three weeks ago, after I watched Chuck with Chuck. We were running the lower Big "Never mind!" I replied, and paddled off run Big Splat down the left at 7 feet. It was a Sandy (W.Va.) at 7.5 (fairly high) and it was fast. It was worse than I thought. Not only straight shot and Chuck sure made it look well below freezing. I sniveled the rapidabove was I old enough to be his father, I was older easy. Wonder Falls down the right; Chuck stormed than his father! "I can do that," I thought. "What could down the meat of it on the left. I nervously But when I paddle with Chuck and Joe I possibly go wrong?" negotiated the high water, river left sneak don't feel old. My lines might not be quite as Granted, there was that obnoxious over the Falls, but Chuck confidently charged crisp or daring and my reflexes might not be munchkin that lives inside my head telling right down the middle, landing flat more quite as sharp, but, hey, I don't see a lot of me, "You know what can go wrong. You than ten feet beyond the ferocious recycle. I other forty six year old guys out there pad- could get backendered into the recycle!" struggled to maintain my dignity following dling Class V (Okay, okay, Class V minus!!!) "Nonsense," I told that munchkin as I him through Zoom Flume and Little Splat.
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