River: Haw

Haw River cleanup

Participants: John McDonald, Randy Welch, Jen Fahey, Barry Schmidt, Julie Schmidt, Marc Harkness, Joan Monnig, Greta Durbin, Marlow Durbin, Doug Stager, Mary Stager, Russ Sheve, Lynn Featherstone, Brenda Featherstone, Tom Patterson, Larry Ausley, Bob Brueckner.

Thanks to 17 fellow CCC members, the Haw will be a little cleaner the next time you visit.

On a beautiful sunny November afternoon, my mom asked, “Greta, do you want to run the Middle Haw this weekend?”  I gulped, “Yeah, sure.”   The Middle Haw?  No sweat, right? I’ve done the Tuck, the Nanty and the Lower Pigeon.  No problem.  But you know what?  A part of me screamed, “Pause!”   You see, I had chickened out on a run on the Middle Haw earlier in the paddling season.