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Fisheye Racers 2006
Report
| Account | Nice Picture from the 2006 Green Race. Cooper runs the "Flying Squirrel" double-boof line on the far river left side of Pencil Sharpener. Photographer unknown. Notice the swimmer just out of frame being rescued -- in the nick of time -- directly above The Notch. Some of that rescue action is viewable late in this Green Race Movie Trailer. Not to belabor a common point, but it pays to have your throwbag ready if you're "out and about". Somebody did for this guy, and he saved that swimmer's ass. Depending on the year and the weather, maybe 250-500+ people hike in to watch the annual Green Race each Fall. This is a great shot of perhaps one third of the crowd in 2006..... It was chilly this year, and so the boys on the midstream rock below Scream Machine brought hot thermos' and boxes of chicken. There's a fantastic view from that vantage point --- and no one can eat your chicken. An even better pic of the crowd, from 2008, can be found here. Green Race, Nov. 4th, 2006 Nice fisheye lens shot of the 2006 Green Racers. It came from the Spanish language Outside magazine, and was in this article about the 2007 Green Race: http://gooutside.terra.com.br/Edicoes/19/artigo37114-1.asp I asked the magazine people about it, and they said they got the photo "the race people". One source indicates it might be the Frenchman, Raphael Thiebaut, but if anyone knows who the photographer was, lemme know... johnpilson at gmail. Thanks. |
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| Time | 2006-11-04 05:00:00 GMT |
| Reported Date | 1162616400 |
| River Reported | Green Narrows |
| Reporter | Author Of Report John Pilson Asheville, NC |
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Green [NC]
2. Green Narrows IV-V+
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Flying Squirrel line
Crowd Shot at 2006 Race
Chicken at Gorilla
Fisheye Racers 2006
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