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Name: Clay Wright
Location: Rock Island, TN
Sex: Male
Birthday: 0000-03-17
Height: 5'10''
Weight: 170
Types of boats you paddle (eg. kayak, raft, C-1, squirt, etc.): Playboat, Creekboat, Squirtboat
First Season (year): 1975
Favorite Class: V
Favorite Runs: Bear, Raven's, Toxaway, Gauley 5000+, Dries, Royal Gorge, N Sky, Futa, Gol-gol, White Nile, Gauley, Rock Island

Personal info: 2005 up to Nov 28th:

Summer-Fall
Salida - tons, 6th at rodeo, 1st: Pine Creek Race (timed, no h2h)
Lyons - 5th at rodeo,
Clear Creek - 350, 420 - fun flush
Oh Be Joyful: 12-15x high and low - ABreaker 2x, 2nd in race to Ryan Casey
Daisy - 2 - high water w/ Ben, low water w Christie
Gunnison Rodeo - 5th, 1st 'big trick'.
NC Hurricane season:
Horsepasture - med, big group, fun slides and rapids. rough hike out.
ran 'last 2' with Pat and Shane. Walked 'big' one.
Ledges surf with Yonton = nice Mcnastys and felix
Toxaway - mid high to real high (flash flood) lightening, I walkd all
Pat ran all but landbridge, Daniel and Nate - scarey paddle out
N. Fork 2x, W. Fork, Upper North Fork -
lowish but fun - boxcar, walked first W slide, Birdrock down was great.
Overflow - 1.4 - Nate Jen, Jon, Daniel, Shane Whit - great run, Daniel swam below marginal
Toxaway - low med - ran all but crack due to tree and 40 40, great run
Nolichucky, kinda high - fun surfing with CD and big crew.
RI surfs - several
Ottawa - river 2x, Garb 6x?, McCoys 2x, Push 4x
Black - Route 3 4 days - 8th place - kinda green wave
Garb rodeo: 2nd to holcombe! 3rd in 'North American Cup'
Lachine - 4 days with Vincent and Patrick and Mo Keller (IR)
Gauley - 10 days: 3rd Hungary Mother WS open, 1 Lower (jenn evac)
1 New, low with Tony and Jay and JK staff
(sprained knee wakeboarding on Summersville res w/ Dobson)
Russel Fork - 3 runs w. Dane and EJ and crew, 4 last weekend
Coosa - 2 days, NATIONAL CHAMPION! (and 3rd Freestyle thru a rapid)
Green - 60%, plus 6 at 100% - 2nd to EJ (spun in Speed Trap)
Tallulah - 2, Super-hero / Super Star

Winter - Summer 2005 (in reverse order)
*Homestake/Gillman/Dowd's w/JK's and Dan G in Fun
Mill Creek - 1.75' - high, 1 portage
New 2x - 3.5' - loops URR and Stripper
*Gattineaux - High Tension 3 days
Ottawa - *middle channel 2x, 11.5, 8.5 - Garvins
Black - Hole Bros 2x - huge loops
Watauga w/ CD - 350 - tons of spins, FUN run
Green 220% - 4x no Notch
Short Cr Falls and run
NAWF: 3rd place, *Mulberry Fk
N. Chick/Cane Dane runs Vortex -
RI - 6300 - falls, rapid, top left hole, hole, brave wave - all good!
Tallulah - 2 filming 'River Running' video
Chattooga - 2.?
Tellico - 2.6, 2.4
WV: Koontz - 4500
NEw, 6', 6.75'
Dries: 24000, 27000, 18000, 45000 - put in waves 60,000
Mill Creek to falls 1', to New 1', 10''
Mann's - 4-6'' (rising due to snow)
*Midl MEadow 1200
Cane - 2.5, ckiller 5.8, collins 3500, emory 5800 (caney was 1.7)
Caney Fork - 1.4, nice flow
*Island Creek - 9" 3 mi class 4 slides, one scout Obed 12000dropping
BSFork - 2400 - JohnD Tanya: 4 loop spots, one airblunt wave
BSF- 1800- FilmFest - lower, not as fun
Falls/rapid/brave wave - 1 week 5000

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9.5 today, lots of good small play on Middle, some big on Main
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At Ottawa - and yeah I love the effortless boof of the 07 a lot.
The choices...
Good boat - faster and lower cockpit, much less 'Rockered' as 07
How's the right to left line look?
Nice!
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