Where did you go in 2007?

Let us know how it went! Swim confessions and carnage reports are welcome, but it's not fair to tell on your buddies!

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Mango
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2007 Trips

Post by Mango »

Got out 113 days

Appomattox 1
Cheotah (low water run) PFD
Lower James 68
Upper James 5
Upper & Lower James 2
Maury (Goshen Pass) 2.5 PFD
Mill Creek 1 PFD
Nantahala 2
NB Potomac 1
NRG, Lower 4
Middle Ocoee 2
Upper Ocoee 1 PFD
Pigeon 2
Staircase 1 PFD
Tohickon Creek 3
The Mighty Tuck 1 PFD
Lower Yough 8

Hand Paddled them all, what else would I do?

Had a few swims this year, but all were reasonablly respectable,
epecially the ones where Guy was trying to kill me! Guy please
take the ring back. :wink:

It was a great year and enjoyed paddling with friends, old and new.

Wade
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming....WOW What a ride! . . . . . Trying to live up to this, Priceless. As long as you have good insurance!
dweir
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Location: Franklin County, VA

Post by dweir »

42 days on the water for me. Two of those days were two river days. 19 rivers total. Wild Webster Weekend, Stoney Creek Rendezvous, WOR, Kibler Valley Race.

Blackwater (Franklin County) - 7 (various sections)
Maury - 1
Roanoke - 1
North Fork Blackwater (Franklin County) - 1
Magodee Creek (Franklin County) - 1
Elk - 3 (Up Elk, Down Elk, Way Down Elk)
Pigg - 1
Stoney Creek (PA) - 2
Staunton - 1
New - 2
James - 5
Smith - 2
Pigeon - 2
Tuckaseegee - 2
French Broad #9 - 1
Nanty - 1
Dan (Kibler Valley) - 2
Jackson - 1
Big Reed Island Creek - 1
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riverguy
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where did I go?

Post by riverguy »

I'm not sure I'd capture them all...

Quetico was my bestest one.
8)
"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else." - Hal Boyle
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markw
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Location: Arlington, VA

Post by markw »

Even though it was a dry year I got in some fun runs. I think I spent about 40 or 50 days on the river.

PFDs

Upper Blackwater 1
Lower Blackwater 1
Top Yough 1
Charlotte WW Park 2
Green River 6 (have not run Gorilla)
SF Tye 1
Lower Gauley 1


Return visits

Upper Yough 6
Lower Big Sandy 1
Maury 7
NF Tye 1
Upper Gauley 3
James 12
Jer
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2007

Post by Jer »

James River- various levels
Tygart
Cranberry
Meadow
Lower Yough
Upper Yough 12 times
Top Yough 2 times, My worst swim, 2nd day ran everything clean
Upper Gauley 3 times
Lower Gauley
New River Gorge
Cheat Canyon
Cheat Narows, Rescue Clinic
Big Sandy, Lower
Ocoee, upper,middle
Tellico
Pigeon
Chattooga, section IV
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Nutter
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The smallest list ever

Post by Nutter »

here it is guys and gals, Try not to be envious of this epic year


Appomattox Chesdin to Target rock- 10

upper James 4
z-dam - 4
lower james - 32


The James was PFD in early spring 07

Gotta do better this year
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

LORAN EISELY, The Immense Journey, 1957
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