HITEWATER I SUMMER, 1973 VOI.XVIII,NO.~ AWA Affiliates ALABAMA IDAHO N. Alabama River-Racing Assoc. Idaho Alpine Club Cartin Martin Dean Hagmann 2602 Scenic Dr. S.E. 1953 Melody Huntsville, AL 35801 Idaho Falls, ID 83401 CALIFORNIA ILLINOIS YMCA Whitewater Club Chicago Whitewater Assoc. Gary Gray Bruce Weber 640 N. Center St. 5652 S. California Stockton, CA 95202 Chicago, IL 60629 Feather River Ka ak Club Belleville Whitewater Club Mike SchneEer Linda Seaman, Rep. 1773 Broadway Street No. 3 Oakwood Mar~sville,CA 95901 Belleville, IL 62223 Sierra Club Prairie Club Canoeists Loma Prieta Paddlers Charles Stewart Joe Kilner 364 Rose Ellen Dr. 185 Loucks Ave. Crown Pt., IN 46307 Los Altos, CA 94040 Illinois Paddling Council MICHIGAN Sierra Club Phil Vierling, 5949 Ohio St. Raw Strength & Courage Mother Lode Chapter Chicago, IL 60644 Ka akers Sam Gardali Mrs. fihn Dice 914 Stanford Ave. INDIANA 2022 Day St. Modesto, CA 95350 Prairie Club Canoeists Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Charles Stewart Sierra. Club MINNESOTA~ ~ San Eranclsco Chap. 364 Rose Ellen Dr. Crown Pt., IN 46307 Minnesota Canoe, Assoc. Rbt. Symon Box 14177 Unlverslty Station 3900 Harrison, No. 107 Tukunu Club Nl~nneapohs,MN 55414 Oakland, CA 94611 Nancy Rea Idlewild Yacht Club 952 Riverside Dr. MISSOURI South Bend, IN 46616 Russ Symon, Rep. Central Missouri State University 800 Market St. American Camping Ass'n. Outing Club San Francisco, CA 94102 Ernest F. Schmidt, Rep. Dr. 0. Hawksley, Rep. Bradford Woods Warrensburg, MO 64093 COLORADO Martinsvllle, IN 461 51 Meramec River Canoe Club Kekionga Voyageurs Mick McNalley Colorado White Water Association 2100 Rayner Rd. Mlke O'Brlen E. Heinz Wahl, Rep. 2007 Marlposa 1818 Kensington Blvd. St. LOUIS.MO 63122 Fort Wayne, IN 46805 Ozark wilderness Boulder, CO 80302 Waterways Club KANSAS Rbt. Woodward CONNECTICUT 2209 W. 104th Street Johnson County Canoe Club Leawood, KS 66206 Appalachian Mountain Club Geo. and Joan Welter Connecticut Chapter 7832 Rosewood Lane MONTANA Christine Papp Prairie Village, KA 66208 418 Blackstone Village Montana Kayak Club Meriden, CT 06450 MARYLAND Doug Abelin Box 213 Terrapin Trail Club Brady, MT 59416 DELAWARE U of Md., Kathy Canter 7912 - 15th Ave. #302 NEW HAMPSHIRE Delaware Canoe Club Hvattsville. MD 20783 David C. Zilker Ledvard Canoe Club 81 7 Knox Ave. Canoe Cruisers Association -Fritz Me er Easton, PA 18042 Pegg Harper Hanover, ~d03755 384 N. iummit Ave. Mad Pemi Canoe Club. Inc. Ga~thersbura.MD 20760 FLORIDA -. Dennis F. Keating Explorer Post 757 93 Realty Ever lades Canoe Club Bill Gassaway Campton, NH 03223 tharles Graves 3582 Church Rd. Box 29 239 NE 20th St. NEW JERSEY Delray Beach, FL 33440 Ellicott City, ~b 21043 Monocacy Canoe Club Adventures Unlimited Donald G. Schley Homer Hicks, Box 186 GEORGIA Rt: 1, Box 8 Belvedere, NJ 07823 Dean's Club Myersvzlle, MD 21773 Kayak and Canoe Club John Mathieu of New York 6277 Roswell Rd., N.E. Appalachian River Runners Ed Alexander, Rep. Atlanta, GA 30328 Federation 6 Winslow Ave. Joe Monohan, Box 11 63 East Brunswick. NS 08816 Geor ia Canoeing Aasociation Cumberland. MD 21502 %. D. Crowley Jr. 5888 O'Hara br. MASSACHUSETTS Stone Mt., GA 30083 Appalachia Mt. Club Explorer Post 49 Berkshire Chapter Mark Reimer Walter M. Banfleld 2254 Spring Creek Rd. Pratt Corner Rd., RFD 3 Decatur, GA 30033 Amherst. MA 01002 American Adventures Club Hampshire College Outdoors Horace P. Holden Program Box 565 Dwight Campbell Roswell, GA 30075 Amherst, MA 01002 (Cont. on Back Cover) - A- # WHITEWATER Sponsored by The American Whitewater Afiliation SUMMER 1973 Vol. XVIII, No. 2 Contents ARTICLES: The Kutuk to Iniakuk .......................................... Jim Hunter 47 American The Heaving Line Rescue .................... 0. K. Goodwin 52 What's Going On Here? .......................... Martin Begun 56 Whitewater Golly, That's Falling Water .......... Charlie Walbridge 60 AfFiliation Mid-Fork Salmon Dam Completed ................................ 66 Fog ................................................................ Tom Findlan 68 Executive Director .................................. JAMES C. SINDELAR Parents Be Aware Alain Chardon 71 264 East Side Dr. Deliverance - Flambeau Style ............ Gary E. Myers 74 Concord, NH 03301 What's My Line? ........................................... Joe Goheen 77 DEPARTMENTS: Board of Directors Affiliates ...................... 42 Classified ...................... 70 Letters .......................... 44 Book Review ................ 78 President J. Calvin Giddings Whitewater President's Soapbox .... 79 1425 Perry Ave. Workshops ................ 46 Salt Lake City, UT 84103 Vice President Editorial Chairman and Editor: Iris Sindelar, 264 East Side Dr., Con- Paul Davidson cord, NH 03301 478 Pythian St. Southeast Regional Editor: Margaret 0. Tucker, 2618 DeFoors Ferry Morgantown, WV 26505 lid.. iY.\V., Atlanta. GA 30318 Editorial Committee: Margaret Tucker, Ed Alexander, 0. K. Goodwin, Secretarv Charles Smith, Geo. Larsen, Ray Gabler. Duane Woltjen Business Manager: Charles Smith, 1760 Walnut St., Berkeley, CA 94709 617 hIarcel Dr. Production and Circulation Manager; Surfing Reporter: Geo. Larsen, Manchester, MO 63011 llox 1584, San Bruno, CA 94066 Membership Chairman: J. I3. I)ewell, 104 S. SOW. \Voods Cross, UT 8-108; David 0.Cooney Safety Chairman: 0. K. Goodwin, 1240 hfoyer Rd., Newport News, VA 21 Haggerty Rd. 23602 Potsdam, NY 13676 Gerald H. 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Your contribution of articles, letters, race results and schedules, photos and drawings are essential for their continued efforts Berkeley, CA 94709 and the timely publication of the American Whitewater Journal. Val. XVIII, KO. 2 O 1973 American Whitewater Affiliation. All rights reserved. COVER: Martin Begun of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the lip of Potter's Falls on Crooked Fork Creek in Tennessee. For more about this unique drop, see p. 56. Photo by Wayne Begun. 156 March 11, 1973 first trip on the Alsek was in 1961 by Dear Iris, Clem Rawert and John Dawson. Ra- Just read twice "From Sea to Shining wert led the 1970 trip which is de- Sea . ." (American Whitewater, Win- scribed in detail in the article. This ter, 1972). Can't make up my mind party of six did not run Turnback Can- whether it's a put-on or not. I alter- yon. Instead, they did a ten-mile por- nate between laughter at the clever- tage across Tweedsmuir Glacier since ness of the article, if it's a put-on, and the canyon was "14 miles of rapids indignation at the comments of Gen. without pullout possibilities, more dif- Thwackem about the environmentalists. ficult than the Grand Canyon." Possi- Please let me know before I make bly Dr. Blackadar has run this section. an ass of myself by writing letters to Alaska magazine usually has two or the Editors of major newspapers re- three nice articles on canoe trips each garding the irresponsible comments of year. The state of Alaska publishes. a "Brute" Thwackem! folder on canoe trips, with diagrams showing put-in and take-out points. Sincerely yours, The rapids are graded on the Inter- Henri de Marne national scale. RFD Box 139 B Betty Lou Bailey Waitsfield, VT 05673 Schuyler 16 (The article by Jonathan Ela, who is the Netherlands Village Sierra Club's Midwest Re., is indeed a satire, Schenectady, NY 12308 but you weren't the only one who wasn't sure (Dr. Walt Blackadar's experiences running it was a put-on-we heard that after it ap- Turnback Canyon on the Alsek are the subject peared in the Sierra Club Bulletin, several people wrote to their congressmen about the of his article which appeared in the August, 'Go-Con Canal Plan." Our apologies to any- 1972 Sports Illustrated. This was a solo run, which probably accounts for the "solo con- one among our readers who did likewise. Per- queror" reference.-Ed.) haps we should have made it clear that it was satire.-Ed.) March 19, 1973 March 13, 1973 Dear Iris, Dear Editor: . About the USFS map that you The enclosed few paragraphs from included with the article ("Spelunkers Alaska magazine, Feb. 1973, indicate on the Chattooga, American White- that it might be interesting to see water, Winter, 1972)-I am glad that an article about the Susitna River in you included it. Section IV on the map Alaska. includes both Section I1 and Section I11 I find I am a bit puzzled by the ref- as they are known to the local canoe- erence to (Walt) Blackadar as "the ists.