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Airedrifter
Feb-01-2007, 03:59 AM
http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/102194276-L.jpg
DoctorIt
Feb-01-2007, 08:48 AM
Ooooh, Gauley = biiiig water! got anymore?
Andy
Feb-01-2007, 09:04 AM
Ooooh, Gauley = biiiig water! got anymore?
+1 I did a rafting trip there 20 years ago, I'd like to go back some day.
Airedrifter
Feb-01-2007, 04:31 PM
Ooooh, Gauley = biiiig water! got anymore?

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

mikesawyer.smugmug.com

http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/64678005-L.jpg


http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/93267522-L.jpg
Phyxius
Feb-01-2007, 05:27 PM
Gauley :lust.

Great shot of the kid. :)
pahl
Feb-01-2007, 07:01 PM
Awesome shot of the kid.
DoctorIt
Feb-02-2007, 06:50 AM
If that kid paddled the Gauley, I'm throwin' in my paddle! :lol3 (great shot!)
James C
Feb-02-2007, 06:30 PM
Doc do you do whitewater?
Airedrifter
Feb-02-2007, 06:50 PM
If that kid paddled the Gauley, I'm throwin' in my paddle! :lol3 (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.
James C
Feb-02-2007, 07:10 PM
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
Airedrifter
Feb-02-2007, 07:29 PM
Does anyone on here whitewater kayak? I've been boating for 7 years. I primarily make videos (www.whitewaterwishes.com (http://www.whitewaterwishes.com)) but I have some pictures that I take (when I'm not in my boat!) www.whitewaterwishes.com/ocean (http://www.whitewaterwishes.com/ocean)

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

-James

Yes, I kayak. Old school. Old school.


http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/40534544-L.jpg
But here is my photography boat (with me in it.) :ivar

http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/95842111-L.jpg



You are right that it is hard to take good stuff down in a kayak.
James C
Feb-02-2007, 07:56 PM
Yes, I kayak. Old school. Old school.


http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/40534544-L.jpg
But here is my photography boat (with me in it.) :ivar

http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/95842111-L.jpg



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 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?
DoctorIt
Feb-03-2007, 08:38 AM
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.
James C
Feb-03-2007, 08:40 AM
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
DoctorIt
Feb-03-2007, 08:42 AM
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 (http://www.npmb.com)):nod bought my current boat and sold my previous one on that board
James C
Feb-03-2007, 08:46 AM
:nod 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!
redgilles
Feb-04-2007, 10:53 AM
Yes, I kayak. Old school. Old school.
http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/40534544-L.jpg
But here is my photography boat (with me in it.) :ivar

http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/photos/95842111-L.jpg



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?