Author: Joseph Berry

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Big Water Bring Your Momma III Trip Report.

Your momma makes the best shake and bake fried chicken in the world. She just gets shaking and baking. I never once felt sorry for that chicken. Getting swirled, thumped up and down, covered in whatever happens to be in that bag and then thrown onto the hot grease. That poor chicken gets devoured, everyone nearby wants a piece and there are always oohs and ahhhs. Shake and bake is tough way to go for a chicken or a cboater with a missed line. Moving right along.

 

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Chapel Hill Roll Session January 27th

In the spirit of Trip Reports gone by.

There were around 15 boats. 2 really long kayaks. One 2 man kayak with a woman. 4 playboat kayaks. 1 ruined kayak. 2 creek boat kayaks. 4 river runner kayaks. Some of them were blue. Some of them were red. Some of them were green. One of them had blue, green, yellow, red, fade, orange, black and white. One of them was orange. Several had several colors.

There were a lot of kayaks upside down at one time or another.

The end.

JMB

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USNWC Shamrock Smackdown 2013

This Smackdown had a different vibe. Sort of a See and be Seen thing. Just you and me and 10,000 of our closest friends.

Reminded me of the Oscars. Yep, that's it. I am already a notorious name dropper (Paddled with Dennis Huntley) so maybe this is the format.

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Mighty Mayo River Trip   Saturday January 5th 2013

K1: Dawn Stewart, Larry Ausley, Nancy Guthrie, Pam Maynard, Joannie Lambert, Dennis Ashford, Nate Kritzmanich, Daniel Richardson, Ren Zacker, Danny Byrd (K1) Rhonda Jones (K1)

OC1: Shane Brown, Barrett Black, Brittany Di Massimo, Trent Fentress and Joe Berry

SRVCC Studbolts Joey Fallin and Sammy Allred were kind enough to guide us from the lunchstop rapd thru the final S Turn rapid. Our personal safety boaters!

 

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Mighty Mayo River Trip Report                             January 15th 2012

Twelve at the put in. Twelve at the take out. Russ Condrey taught me to always bring all my gear and to always bring everyone home. We did, but it was close to not being so.

Boaters:

Joe Fortin, Sammy Allred, Lucas Conkle, Danny Byrd, Robert Pajor, Pete Walther, Nate Krizmanich and David Zane Stacy were in kayaks.

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Posting a trip on the website is an awesome way to meet paddlers. If the trip is a itch more difficult than it gets a little interesting. I got lucky. The folks that met me for the Creek Boat Smackdown at the USNWC had plenty of game.
John and Rachel Rea along with Todd and his significant other Bethany were awesome folks to meet and paddle with. I got my first couple of laps in by 11am and paddled over to the upper pond to meet my new friends from Atlanta.

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