The Old Forest
The Old Forest By Virginia Holman A Carolina Paddler Reprint This article first appeared in November, 2013 edition of Salt magazine. ∞ According to the USGS gauge at Tomahawk, the Black River is running at thirteen feet. Fall is …
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Texas Whitewater: A follow-up, Part 1
Texas Whitewater: A Follow-Up on Challenges Texas Paddlers Face (Part 1) By Zach Schiada a Carolina Paddler article ∞ I recently wrote a book report about Texas Whitewater by Steve Daniel. Although the book is detailed on the multiple barriers …
Hole Escape Skills
Hole Escape Skills by Teresa Gryder a Carolina Paddler Reprint This article first appeared on the Lower Columbia Canoe Club website. [Author’s Note: This is Part 2 of a series about holes. Part 1 is about understanding how holes are made, and …
Planning a Record-Setting Expedition
Planning a Record-Setting Expedition a Carolina Paddler article by Alton Chewning ∞ What Ilia Smirnov was preparing for is difficult to categorize. A multi-week expedition? Yes. A wilderness adventure? Yes and no. A race? It definitely was about going …
Texas Whitewater
Texas Whitewater by Steve Daniel a Carolina Paddler Book Report by Zach Schiada ∞ (Author’s note:) I’m writing about a guidebook that I recently read by Steve Daniel. In doing so, I cannot help to think of the recent passing …
Understanding Holes
Understanding Holes by Teresa Gryder a Carolina Paddler Reprint This article first appeared on the Lower Columbia Canoe Club website. [Author’s Note: This is Part 1 of a series about holes in which we talk about what makes holes, and …
A hasty search for a watery grave
A hasty search for a watery grave by Red Smith a Carolina Paddler reprint ∞ This article first appeared in the New York Times. John Burton started paddling at Camp Mondamin, a boys camp in Tuxedo, NC. He and other …
Patton’s Run
Patton’s Run by Alton Chewning a Carolina Paddler article ∞ Like many young men from North Carolina, Charlie Patton was called to serve in World War II. After the war, Patton came home to Brevard and found work as a …
Revisiting a death on the Ocoee in 1997
Tragic Death on the Ocoee a Carolina Paddler Revisit “Tragic Death on the Ocoee” is an article written by “GratefulEd”, a frequent poster to rec.boat.paddle [An apparently defunct site]. This article first appeared in the CCC’s newsletter, The Paddler in …
Canoe Camping in the Okefenokee Swamp
Canoe Camping in the Okefenokee Swamp By Robert Martin a Carolina Paddler article ∞ In December of 2018 Gary Gurkin, a wilderness canoeist who has paddled all over North America and is one hell of a whitewater openboater, called me …