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By Stephen Wright. Learn more about Stephen.

March 20, 2006

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I had the opportunity to drive to PA on Thursday to deliver some new
boats and outfitting upgrade kits to Blue Mountain Outfitters. Blue
Mountain is an EXTREMELY cool paddle shop in Harrisburg that has EVERYTHING
you could ever need to kayak. The shop is run by Doug and Mary, who have
years of whitewater experience and have built an incredible dealer–This is
THE place to go in the Harrisburg area for a Jackson Kayak new boat or demo.

I spent Friday working with Eric (Mary’s son) to upgrade their 2005 stock
of demo boats and a few retail boats with Boat Armor Outfitting. On
Saturday, I got to go back to one of my favorite places to paddle in the
world: Holtwood on the Susquehanna. Holtwood is an INCREDIBLE play area on
in the middle of nowhere where there are almost never lines to surf the
awesome waves and holes. At most levels there are several world-class
features to play, but it was low water for us so we only had the “classic”
hole of Holtwood, which is named Storm Hole. It was the perfect place to
work on all the new moves, and enjoy doing all the older ones. This was
where I learned to cartwheel left years ago and spent LOTS of time there
when I lived in PA.

I was joined by some of my favorite people to paddle-with during the two
days: Todd Baker, Jen Kellerman, James Sneeringer, Jeremy Laucks, and Eric
from Blue Mountain. Todd was working on learning to McNasty, Jen was
working on spins and surfing (with an occasional tricky-woo), Jeremy was
also working McNastys, James was Cartwheeling-blunting-and looping, and I
was trying everything I could think-of! What a great spot to get some
training-in for places like Reno, Vail, and Salida! I had a blast
dialing-in my lunar orbits, tricky-woos, Mcnastys, Monkeys, and other good
stuff. It was really cold and windy, so we spent a lot of time shivering in
between rides on Saturday. This motivated us to build a fire today, which
helped a lot.

Tomorrow I’ll stop by our Richmond dealer: Appomatox River Company, then
make the long drive back to Rock Island…10 hours! I hear there’s rain in
the forcast!

Live from Richmond,
Stephen Wright

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