NOC Hosts another Great Spring Splash!

April 6, 2005

Photos

I am writing articles out of order, but hey, here it
is. The Jackson
family, Nick Troutman/Jackson (for now), Chris Emerick, and Stephen Wright
all drove the 4 hours from Rock Island to NOC on Friday. It was raining
cats and dogs, 2" in 2 hours by my guess. We arrived and it was still
61
degrees. When we woke it was only 35 degrees and snowing! No problem,
we
ate at River’s End (Veggie Hashbrown delight!), and then spent some time
at
the NOC outfitters store, meeting kayakers, like yourself, and talking
about…Kayaking! Very cool.

Then, We loaded up and headed to the Cascades, about
11 miles upstream for a run down that stretch of sweet whitewater. It
was REALLY snowing hard and I was not really prepared for the turn in
weather, so only had shorts. It is all roadside, so no real issue.

The Rocker rocked, while the kids loved their Funs
on this run. Stephen and Chris took the kids to their cabin we got for
them to play Monopoly. Stephen Wright now has my old digital Rebel camera
and I got the new Canon 20D. Here is Stephen’s first day of shooting!

On Sunday I got to paddle the Nantahala and met some
cool paddlers. I was fortunate enough to be able to lead Karla, who took
a class with Ana Levesque on Sat, down the lower part of the river, including
the "falls" on her second day in a kayak! Her boyfriend, Will
emailed me about helping him with his roll, but somehow in the excitement
he didn’t mention it, and I forgot (sorry Will). After paddling, Chris
Emerick and I spent some time filming about equipment for the upcoming
videos I am making. EJ’s River Running Basics and EJ’s Advanced River
Running.

On Monday- We hit the Telico at 700cfs (pretty
high water). The photos are all from Monday. I do have a few from today
that I could put up…. OK look for a couple.

🙂 EJ