The Carnage Report / Green training up to now

Forum: BoaterTalk
Date: Nov 04 2009, 15:37 GMT
From: ClayW
Man, getting to the Green and getting a couple runs in feels great! The parking lot talk tells another story, though: the high price of so many people charging 250 feet in a half-mile is breaking boats, paddles, and body parts. Here are some of the stories I heard today:

BD - ripped a second huge hole in a Green Boat and re-injured a shoulder here recently. I watched the broken boat get snatched up for repairs be a newly arrived racer.

MF - downstream flip in Scream Machine results in severely broken wrist

GC - popped his shoulder out at the notch and dropped the monkey upside down..stick shift arm so he'll be staying for the race.

CG - Center approach Go Left gone wrong causes swim from hole down through the next rapid - boat still not recovered, lots of guessing on where it could be and most guessing still in Go Left. Some say making the hole worse?

WL - dusk practice goes wrong when bow of old boat rips off and hike out goes after dark.

?? - Passed a Green Boat being roped out from 'Piton Practice' at dusk and heard there are 2 boats in Nutcracker right now, plus saw 2 more on the bank along the river last night, but don't know the story.

In other news - ferocious event organizer/ 2x winner Jason Hale is en-route from San Fran, 6x winner Tommy Tsunami gets in tomorrow from CO, 3x women's winner Shannon Carrol came in from CA and just borrowed a long boat, Arnd Sheflein is in from Germany, 08 dual medalist Eric Deguile comes in from France soon, and Team Pyranha, Wave Sport, Dagger, NOC, Liquid Logic, and my Jackson Kayak rig are making laps on I-26 covered in plastic all day.

Kinda gruesome to mention the injuries, I know, but just in case anyone thinks racing the Green is really safe with so many people around, and that they should just come out and give-er without knowing the lines - its not and you shouldn't.

That said - I do hope everyone that CAN race the Green will! The entry fee is right, and the thrill of just 'being a part' of this amazing procession of kayaks down these world class rapids is a feeling you won't soon forget. If you may have to catch an eddy or 2, fine. If you might decide NOT to spank the monkey if you aren't feeling it... so be it. And if you just want to hike in and see the best paddlers in the US a bit out of control as they drop the most impressive dam-release rapid around, you won't be disappointed.

Safe lines, and see you on the river!

clay

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When is the Green River Race?
Also, isn't I-40 still closed between Knoxville and Asheville?

Green Race this weekend...woohoo! I-40 closed.....to get to Asheville (and beyond), get off I-40 in Newport and take the road to Hotsprings and continue on from there through Marshal, and down to Weaverville. You'll intersect with I-26 just north of Asheville. Distance wise, it's pretty close to the same....although the road through hotsprings is two lane and curvy....but astoundingly beautiful.

accidently double posted....sigh



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2009 10:50PM by clay_warren.

Just as I was beginning to think MAYBE I might like to try the Green (Green Lite) something tells me I'm really not interested in having my a$$ handed to me again this year.

Youins be careful out there a whitewater ridin



In Anticipation of Precipitation
WaVeY

My shoulder is finally getting over my flip in Scream Machine at the bottom of Neece's Pieces. Think I will wait til summer for another jaunt.
Brent

Hi everyone! I am new to BWA, but plan to make the trip to the Green and hike in to Gorilla to watch the race. Also planning to get on the lower sat and/or sat. I have a lake house about 40ish minutes from the river and have room if If anyone wants to join! Heading out around 4-5ish tom.
Aleighia

LL has a new Green race boat - the "Remix Stinger" and it's reported to be "9.654% faster than anything else on the river"

[shanesliquidlogic.blogspot.com]

Welcome to the fray, Aleighia. Hope to see you at the monthly meeting (Tuesday 7:30 at Panda Cuisine on Nicholasville Rd.) and/or our first rolling session of the winter. (Friday the 13th, 7:45 to 9:45 at the Northside YMCA, Loudon Avenue off Newtown Pike.)

How do you pronounce Aleighia?

Hanley

Thanks! I plan to be at both :-) It's pronounced a-lee-uh!
Aleighia