Kindly Old Dr. K’s Hydrosphere

James Sneeringer explains all about the Maryland Chute-out in this video on YouTube.

Horseshoe, the venue for the freestyle and wave surfing events.  Bloody Good is downstream of the triangular dark rock and Horseshoe Wave is downstream of Bloody Good, near the paddlers.

Dane and EJ line up for the Wave Surfing event.  Team Jackson swept this event with EJ, Dane, and Jay Kincaid finishing 1-2-3 in the men’s division.

In the Freestyle finals, Jay Kincaid drops into Bloody Good, one of the Potomac’s most unfriendly play spots.

 At low water, the Attainment Race was a rock scramble for short boats.  Hand-crawling backwards up the ledges was one of the better methods tried by the contestants.

Contestants warm up for the Wave Surfing event at Horseshoe Wave.

On Horseshoe Wave.

Couple of  pix from the Savage last weekend.  The pentagonal catechism of Mid-atlantic paddling is the Yough, Cheat, New, Gauley and Savage.  The Savage has been hard to catch for almost 20 years, so it’s nice to have it back.

If you paddle the Potomac you should read this article about the astonishing natural resources on our home river.

http://www.nps.gov/cue/projects/pogo/04_January_Bioscience_Cohn_.pdf