Kayaking on the Gauley River, WVa.

AiredrifterAiredrifter Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
edited February 4, 2007 in Sports
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited February 1, 2007
    Ooooh, Gauley = biiiig water! got anymore?
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    DoctorIt wrote:
    Ooooh, Gauley = biiiig water! got anymore?
    +1 I did a rafting trip there 20 years ago, I'd like to go back some day.
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  • AiredrifterAiredrifter Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    DoctorIt wrote:
    Ooooh, Gauley = biiiig water! got anymore?

    There might be a few on my web site. :)

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  • PhyxiusPhyxius Registered Users Posts: 1,396 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    Gauley iloveyou.gif.

    Great shot of the kid. :)
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  • pahlpahl Registered Users Posts: 107 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2007
    Awesome shot of the kid.
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited February 2, 2007
    If that kid paddled the Gauley, I'm throwin' in my paddle! lol3.gif (great shot!)
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  • James CJames C Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited February 2, 2007
    Doc do you do whitewater?
  • AiredrifterAiredrifter Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2007
    DoctorIt wrote:
    If that kid paddled the Gauley, I'm throwin' in my paddle! lol3.gif (great shot!)

    Thanks, that was on the Shenandoah, just upstream from Harper's Ferry, WVa.

    I'll have to look for my Dane Jackson pics. I have some of him surfing at Diagonal Ledges when he was 10. :) Low res: WR stuff.
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  • James CJames C Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited February 2, 2007
    Airedrifter wrote:
    Thanks, that was on the Shenandoah, just upstream from Harper's Ferry, WVa.

    I'll have to look for my Dane Jackson pics. I have some of him surfing at Diagonal Ledges when he was 10. :) Low res: WR stuff.

    Does anyone on here whitewater kayak? I've been boating for 7 years. I primarily make videos (www.whitewaterwishes.com) but I have some pictures that I take (when I'm not in my boat!) www.whitewaterwishes.com/ocean

    I don't have very many from the river because I refuse to bring my camera on the river!

    -James
  • AiredrifterAiredrifter Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2007
    James C wrote:
    Does anyone on here whitewater kayak? I've been boating for 7 years. I primarily make videos (www.whitewaterwishes.com) but I have some pictures that I take (when I'm not in my boat!) www.whitewaterwishes.com/ocean

    I don't have very many from the river because I refuse to bring my camera on the river!

    -James

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    But here is my photography boat (with me in it.) :ivar

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    You are right that it is hard to take good stuff down in a kayak.
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  • James CJames C Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited February 2, 2007
    Airedrifter wrote:
    Yes, I kayak. Old school. Old school.


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    But here is my photography boat (with me in it.) :ivar

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    You are right that it is hard to take good stuff down in a kayak.

    It's so cool to find other people who kayak everywhere! clap.gif I see you're in VA... I assume the Gauley is local to you? If so you're lucky!

    I do a trip every year down that way- I hit the Yough, Gauley, New, Big Sandy and anything else that's running! More often than not though I head up north to the Ottawa etc... Do you get out much?
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited February 3, 2007
    James C wrote:
    Doc do you do whitewater?
    I do, a little bit. Done rafting trips around New England, but I'm a kayak weenie, never made it off our local Deerfield River.
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  • James CJames C Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited February 3, 2007
    DoctorIt wrote:
    I do, a little bit. Done rafting trips around New England, but I'm a kayak weenie, never made it off our local Deerfield River.
    AH! That's so cool! I run the Dryway almost every weekend it releases when there is no water anywhere else! Have you heard of NPMB? (www.npmb.com)

    -James
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited February 3, 2007
    James C wrote:
    AH! That's so cool! I run the Dryway almost every weekend it releases when there is no water anywhere else! Have you heard of NPMB? (www.npmb.com)
    nod.gif bought my current boat and sold my previous one on that board
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  • James CJames C Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited February 3, 2007
    DoctorIt wrote:
    nod.gif bought my current boat and sold my previous one on that board
    Awesome! So what do you paddle?

    Sorry to sort of hijack the thread by the way... I get excited when I meet other paddlers!
  • redgillesredgilles Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
    edited February 4, 2007
    You only get one "old school"
    Airedrifter wrote:
    Yes, I kayak. Old school. Old school.
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    But here is my photography boat (with me in it.) :ivar

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    You are right that it is hard to take good stuff down in a kayak.
    That stuff looks like it's still less than 20 years old. I ran some of the first center mounted rowing rigs down the Gauley in 1979/80 era (before self-bailing floors) when there were only two or three open boaters (Mad River Explorers - by Robert Harrison) paddling with an inner tube strapped in. The Gauley is certainly one of the finest pieces of white water in the world.
    I'll look through some old photos to see if I can find anything to post.
    Great shots of Pillow Rock. Anything from Sweets Falls?
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