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If you’ve ever attended a Gauley Fest or Ocoee Rodeo, chances are you’ve seen and perhaps met Nancy Gilbert. Nancy, along with her husband and AW board of director Joe Greiner, have been volunteering tirelessly at both events for many years. You’ll usually find Nancy at the Gauley Fest entrance and registration and scoring tables at the Ocoee Rodeo, so stop by and say “hi” and be sure to thank her.Nancy began paddling after her fiftieth birthday as a means

Saturday, the parking issues are tremendous and we ask ALL kayakers to please use the shuttle service located at the Cresta Powerhouse. Rafts need to use a separate put-in so ask at the American Whitewater booth for directions. The shuttle service is a paltry $5.00 donation, and makes life easier for everybody. Sunday, we will also provide the shuttle but things are more flexible concerning parking. Furthermore, there are several runs available depending on your skill level. The section from

Nicholas County Veterans Memorial Park Rt 19, Summersville, WV Admission $5 (no glass containers permitted) join American Whitewater for an evening in celebration ofwhitewater and the great outdoors   Satisfy your paddlingneeds all in one location     HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2002 GAULEY FESTIVAL   VENDORS ! VENDORS! VENDORS! If you want it, they’ll have it.   LIVE MUSIC continuous from 7pmto 2am   2002 ir BIG GUN SHOW-  NEW this year! Lunch VideoMagazine’s encore presentation of this super production!

Liquid Logic continues to assert itself as a leader in the whitewater industry by being the first organization to participate in AW’s new Blood Drive program. AW memberships represent the very life blood of the only organization that works full time making sure you have the opportunity to enjoy America’s premiere whitewater rivers. Liquid Logic understood this need and in a show support never witnessed in the whitewater industry became the only organization to ensure that every member of the

The Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area (AHRA) on Colorado’s Arkansas River have decided to discontinue counting use in Browns Canyon for the remainder of the 2002 boating season. The decision was made “due to the extreme low water conditions in Browns Canyon & the corresponding low number of private boaters using this section of the Arkansas River.” This is good news for the boating community as the AHRA Managers were conducting the counts to determine whether triggers would be hit this

The survey is now complete- many thanks to all who participated! This is an exciting time in the history of Grand Canyon River Management. Through our paddling community’s successful lawsuit (www.americanwhitewater.org/archive/article/348/, we were able to inspire the Park Service to reopen the planning process for the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Now, this summer, we have a unique opportunity to work cooperatively with the Park, conservation community, outfitters, and recreationists to plan creatively for the future improved river management

The Comal County Commissioner’s Court is taking measures that will restrict access to the Guadalupe River indefinitely. This goes beyond the court order described in AW’s river closure alert on July 10, 2002.The proposed order, posted below, will be voted on tonight in New Braunfels at 8:15pm. If approved, all recreational access will be curtailed.AW’s letter to Comal County DA Dib Waldrip (email datdww@co.comal.tx.us) and Sheriff Bob Holder (email soajrh@co.comal.tx.us) is posted below.If you contact the DA or Sheriff, please

Texas boater Chris Burt alerted American Whitewater on July 10th that the Guadalupe River is closed until flood waters from the recent rains that have been pounding South and Central Texas recede. As you can read from the press release below, boating is prohibited until “July, 20 unless this order is further extended”. The Guadalupe, the most visited river in Texas, is dammed just above New Braunfels at Canyon Lake, which from the flood, reached record levels and in fact

By Jason Robertson The instinct not to breath underwater is so strong that it overcomes the agony of running out of air. No matter how desperate the drowning person is, he doesn’t inhale until he’s on the verge of losing consciousness. At that point there’s so much carbon dioxide in the blood, and so little oxygen, that chemical sensors in the brain trigger an involuntary breath whether he’s underwater or not. That is called the “break point”; laboratory experiments have

This information is also available at www.nps.gov/grca/crmp/public/index.htm.To the many people interested in the Grand Canyon:The National Park Service is updating Grand Canyon National Park’s Colorado River Management Plan and needs your input. The Plan requires preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which will: 1) provide a comprehensive look at the impacts to natural and cultural resources from current visitor uses on the Colorado River; and 2) evaluate various alternatives to help maintain and enhance this treasured resource while provided a

The access to the Lower Blue below Green Mountain Dam is going to RE-OPEN on a LIMITED basis beginning this FRIDAY JULY 5th, 2002. Paddlers in the Steamboat Springs and Summit County areas have long enjoyed this late season Class III stretch of river, as water is released from the Green Mountain Reservoir for irrigation purposes. The stretch of river includes steep, dramatic canyon scenery with no roads or trails adjacent to the river.However, access to the river downstream of

This event celebrates access to a phenomenal river, for which that American Whitewater volunteers and staff and community partners have worked since the mid-1980’s: – getting water released in a programmed manner (with the outfitters) – continuing to work with them to manage water availability and scheduling (again with the outfitters) – taking on the management of the put in, threatened for years by landowners and public land (less than proactive) management, including financially contributing to cover the costs of