CCC Spring Meeting
The CCC Spring Meeting will be May 15, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM on Zoom. The link and phone number for the meeting will be posted prior via a member-accessible link. Please confirm your membership and ability to log …
Author: Rick Steeves
WOR Smoky Mountain Meadows
Smoky Mountain Meadows is about to send their pre-registration confirmation emails for WOR. Please look for their “2023 CCC WOR Pre-registration Camping Form” email if you are on those lists. We just want to make sure someone doesn’t miss the …
Discord and the CCC
This discussion is likely not what you expect! Discord is a chat tool used to communicate with communities and friends, usable from a web page or app. A while back the Foothills Paddling Club switched their main social media platform …
At Least One Trip
Here we are on the 3rd of March, and I’ve already got 8 people signed up for my annual novice trip mid-April! Were you on a past novice trip? Boating thanks to people coordinating trips when you started out? Was …
CCC Membership
The CCC currently has 754 paid members! Membership in the CCC is awesome. You become an active part of a great community, adding your voice to CCC discussions. Your membership helps support other organizations and conservation efforts related to paddling. …
New WOR Clinic Coordinator!
I’m pleased to announce that Anthony Davis Brown has volunteered to be the new Week of Rivers Clinic Coordinator! Feel free to reach out to him with ideas for WOR clinics or to volunteer to coordinate a clinic at WOR. …
Follow the CCC!
Facebook is a great tool for specific things, but keeping track of posts is not its strength. Never fear, you can follow the CCC email list, RSS feed, and/or Twitter feed for updates, or even add the CCC calendar to …
CCC Gift Cards
Trying to find that perfect last-minute gift? Have a friend you’d love to see as a member of the CCC? A child that’s left the home that you’d like to help maintain their CCC membership? Well, now’s your chance, and …
Ocoee Drawdown 2022
The last week of September is Ocoee Drawdown, where the Ocoee runs the entire week. During the week of Drawdown the Ocoee has little to no raft traffic (literally a couple of rafts here and there). You can paddle the …
Yough’ing
John MacDonald and I decided to make a week-long trip up to the lower section of the Youghiogheny River, joined by Jim Keihn. We also paddled with other groups for a couple of days. The Youghiogheny River (Yough for short, …