Events:
ASCI Whitewater Showdown is Friday night – more info is at www.youghpaddlingclub.com
WEATHER – Looks like a few lingering showers through Thursday but not enough precipitation to materially affect river levels. Cool on Friday with a warming trend and sunny weather throughout the 3-day weekend. Highs starting in the upper 60’s and finishing in the upper [...]
ASCI Whitewater Showdown
Sponsored by:
ASCI, Bliss-Stick Kayaks, Starkkmoon Kayaks, Stonyboater Paddle Wax, and Stonyboater.com
The 2008 ASCI White Water Showdown will kick off this year on Friday, May 23rd with the following events:
* 5PM – Registration
* 6PM – Raft Race (ASCI will provide equipment)
* 7PM – Boatercross
* 8PM – Freestyle Kayaking
Cost is $10 per event (1 class [...]
The question of what the boating scene is like in Western Maryland has come up a couple times recently. So I put together a brief description of the region and what there is to offer here.
Enjoy!
Western Maryland is home to some the marquee whitewater runs in the Eastern United States. It includes the watersheds of [...]
All good things must come to an end, and the end of the first year of the Friday Night Fun Series is this Friday. But before we sign off o the year we are going out with a bang!
The Riversport Series Final is a two event evening with two separate freestyle events held back to back. [...]
A quick post with the results from this past Friday’s event, the Immersion Research Giant Slalom. A dozen boats participated in the event including 1 Ducky, a 2 person Ducky, a C-1, 6 kayaks, and 1 C-1 that had been converted to a kayak.
Immersion Research Giant Slalom
Kayak
1) Brian Homberg
2) Jesse Shimrock
3) Jack Ditty (C-1)
4) Ben Sieville
5) Andy Kirby
6) Paige [...]
It took a little time but here is a link to a gallery with 370 pictures from the August 10 Wavesport Freestyle held at ASCI. The event was held at Feature”A” on the ASCI course. It was the 5th event of the Friday Night Fun Series.
Wavesport Freestyle #2
Enjoy the pictures
Well here I go with a new piece that I’m going to try. I’ll be trying to put out a weekend water out look for the next couple weeks. I’m not sure if it will be useful so please leave a comment if it is.
Guaranteed Water
Upper Yough releases are scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Monday
N.Branch [...]
I’ve read a few post from other parents with kids. I especially like what you can read here on the http://worldkayakblogs.com/rapidpirate blog. He seems to have a good feel for how to get his kids in to boating. This has been on my mind a good bit as my soon-to-be 4 year old daughter has been [...]
A hardy group of 9 boaters took to the water at ASCI to compete in the 2nd Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo held on Feature “A”. Despite a couple “surprise” changes to the feature, everyone had a great time. Full results should be posted on http://ascikingoftheriver.com. But in the meantime here are the Top 4 and the [...]
Except of gate 9 I think I have every part of the course on film. SO like I did for our Friday Night Fun Series, here is the National’s course from start to final gate.
Start
From the start the first 4 gates were all off set down stream gate.
Gate 1 & 2
Gate 3
Gate 4 into Gate [...]
The Friday Night Fun Series get back in the action this Friday with Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo on 8/10. After a 1 week hiatus, the Friday Night Fun Series at ASCI will host its 5th event the second Wavesport Freestyle. SO far the freestyle has been our most popular event and we hope that that trend [...]
Here are the Top three results by class. You can look at the full dedtailed results here:
http://www.adventuresportscenter.com/images/stories/Events/Slalom_Nationals/final%20results-%202007%20slalom%20nationals.pdf
K1
1) Scott Mann
2) Bett Heyl
3) Scott Parsons
K1-W
1)Heather Corrie
2) Zuzana Vahna
3)Ashley Nee
C-1
1)Ben Fraker
2) Erik Amason
3) Larimer
C-2
1)Austin Crain/Scott McClesky
2)Eichfield/Powell
3)Borst/Stazcko
Here is a link to the pictures I took at the event. A full write up of my experience and impressions from the [...]
A fair number of pictures from last Friday’s Riversport School of Paddling are now up on the Friday Fun Series website photo album along with the results. So go check it out. The water level in the pictures is the same level that will be used at U.S. Slalom Nationals in 2 days (Saturday).
Here a nice [...]
If you would like to have exclusive access to the ASCI Whitewater park one evening a month, as well as a bunch of other membership benefits, come to next Wednesday’s Yough Paddling Club Night at ASCI starting at 6:00. Join the club and paddle that evening – no raft traffic – and good times with local boaters [...]
Just a reminder for those of you who will be in the area this weekend – August 3-5 – US Slalom Nationals are being hosted at the Adventuresports Center on Saturday. This is the whitewater discipline that is part of the Olympics. Slalom combines speed and precision with racers negoitiating aproximately 24 gates over the [...]
I want to thank Jason and Sully of Stonyboater.com and Stonyboater Paddle Wax. They have been taking pictures of all of our events. This past Friday, Jason provided me with a CD of over 700 pictures from the first 3 events in the series.
The events were the Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo, Stonyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross, and [...]
Here are the full results from last night’s event-
Riversport School of Paddling Boatercross
Kayak Class
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Geoff Calhoun
3) Brian Homberg
4) Ben Ledewitz
5 (tie) Lee Railey
5 (tie) Matt Taylor
7) Paige Teegarden
2 registrants DNS
Ducky-cross
1) Matt Taylor
2) Jesse Shimrock
3) Lee Railley
4) Tom Beall
5) Paige Teegarden
After 4 events the Immersion Research King of the River standings are:
1) Paige Teegarden
2) [...]
I’ll do a full write up later for tonight’s Riversport Boatercross. But in the mean time here is the results from tonight’s Kayak class. Ducky class results will be in the full write up.
K1
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Geoff Calhoun
3) Brian Homberg
I also was handed two CDs tonight with close to 1000 pictures from the first 3 [...]
From 5:30 – 7:00 at the ASCI “pond” the Yough Paddling Club (YPC) will be having rolling sessions. Paige Teegarden, YPC Board member, and certified Instructor, will be there to help people perfect their rolls.
This is the second of three posts about little know creeks in the region. This is one in the drainage of the North Branch of the Potomac River. Difficult Run drops down into the Kiztmiller Section of the North Branch from the West Virginia side.
Difficult Run (WV) – Tributary of the North Branch of the [...]