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Types of boats you paddle (eg. kayak, raft, C-1, squirt, etc.): Pyrhana Inazone and Eskimo Nano, Wavesport EZ and Mutant, LL Vision 44, Pyrhana Burn, Fluid Nemisis
First Season (year): 2002
Favorite Class: IV
Favorite Runs: Green, Russell Fork, Johnnies, LRC
When I first started paddlingIthoughthat I wanted to be a hardcore playboater but have always really enjoyed creeking more thoughI occasionally enjoy some surfing. It doesn't matter though what I am doing (play, creek, flatwater, whatever) just as long as I get to be on the water with the smooth flow of the current moving under me and good friends sitting in the water beside me. List of stuff I have done from then until now:
Tuckaseegee
Crab Creek
Spokane River
Cle Elum (WA)
Nantahala-middle and gorge
Upper Green
Sect. 9 FB (moderate and well above moderate flows-15,000)
French Broad S#$t hole
numerous sections of the Saluda
Little River(NC) below Triple falls
Big Laurel
Big Stoney Creek
Big Cedar Creek
Cowlitz (WA)
White Salmon(WA)
Mountain Fork(OK)
numerous portions of New River
Sect. IV Chattooga
Wilson Creek
Powell River
Whitetop Laurel
Upper Tellico
North Fork French Broad
Treemont
Lower Big Creek
Tallulah
Ocoee
Arkansas(numbers to BV)
Eagle Dowd Chute
LRC-Chairlift
Short Creek (AL)
Locust Fork
Mulberry
Town Creek
Richland Creek
South Sauty
Kinlock Falls
Blackwater Creek(AL)
Lower Gauley
Upper Gauley
LRC-Upper Two
Johnnies
Cheoah
Coosa
LRC-Suicide
Watauga
West Fork French Broad
Upper Yough
Green River-Narrows
Big Hungry
Russell Fork Gorge
Upper Big Creek
Valles River-Micos section MX
Valles River-Salto section MX
Rio Frio MX
Rio Verde MX
Puento de Dios MX
Rio Tampaon MX
Rio Santa Maria MX
Minas Viajas MX
Lower Rocky Broad NC
Gragg Prong NC
Clear Fork of the Arkansas CO
S. Platte-Chessman Canyon CO
Castle Creek CO
Roaring Fork-Slaughterhouse CO
Vallecito CO
Clear Creek CO
Big South CO
Little TN
Doe, TN
Upper Rocky Broad, NC
Colorado River-Grand Canyon, AZ
Upper Davidson, NC
Cedar Mountain, NC
Male
Stonycreek Rendezvous
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