Thanks again to a collaboration between the Frostburg State University’s Activities for Life program and the Yough Paddling Club rolling sessions will be held for 4 weeks at the FSU pool beginning February 19.
Cost: $4 per person per night
Dates: Feb. 19 & 26 and March 4 & 11
Time: 9:00 PM - 10:45 PM
As usual, please [...]
An incident last weekend involving a strainer in the easier runout blow Pete Morgans has brought to light the existance of a dagerous strainer on the Cheat Canyon Section roughly 3/4 of a mile below the last major rapid. Here is a link to a description of the incident posted on the MCC’s Pattle Prattle. [...]
Each week Lee puts out his very accurate Weekend Water predictions which are published on the Canoe Club of Harrisburg website. His full prediction includes much of Central and Eastern PA as well as the Western Maryland Region. So I’ve edited it down to the rivers here in Western MD and within a short drive [...]
Its been a while since I posted anything so just a quick note of things to come. First, there is now an official Western Maryland Region for the Worldkayak.com website, and you will be able to put up Western Maryland based blog on worldkayakblogs.com soon too (if its not up yet). I’m the worldkayak.com ambassador for the Western [...]
So I was wondering around the next instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing and there was a change to the Savage/North BranchRelease Schedule website this AM.
According to the release website ”A whitewater release for Savage River Dam is being scheduled for Sunday September 9, 2007. The whitewater release will extend from 9 [...]
As the summer fades to fall, September brings to end the summer river season, but also brings to the fore-front the reservoir drawdown schedule.
Labor Day weekend has 3 days of Upper Yough Releases, then we start into Gauley season.
September 9 is the third scheduled release for the Savage. Lets hope that there is enough water [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The sixth installment of the Friday Night Fun Series is the Immersion Research Giant Slalom Race. This is the second giant slalom of the series. the first generated a good response with 18 competitors in 3 boat classes plus our classic ducky slalom class.
For more information about the Friday Night Fun Series check out our [...]
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 [...]
As part of ASCI’s support for the Yough Paddling Club, the first Wednesday night of every month during the season is Yough Paddling Club Night. What does this mean?
FREE TIME ON THE WATER FOR CLUB MEMBERS!!!!
Members of the club have exclusive use of the whitewater coures from 6-8 PM prior to the monthly club meeting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
The Upper Yough Race is this Saturday along with a Festival that takes place at the Friendsville Park at the Upper Takeout.
The Race is the highlight of the events but there as been a bunch of work put into creating a full community event.
All the info you need can be ound at the events website:
http://www.youghioghenyriver.org/Festival.htm
Of [...]
What is the Immersion Research King of the River Competition?
The Immersion Research King of the River is the Friday Night Fun Series’ winner-take-all competition. There is a significant prize package that will go to only one winner. It will be awarded at the end of the series to the competitor who accumulates the most points in their class(es) [...]
Here is the link to the event photo album. You need to scroll down to the third event and all of the pictures are clickable to get a larger version of the picture.
http://ascikingoftheriver.com/Photo_Album.html
So here are a few of my favorite ones
This picture shows the kind of venue this site is in terms of picturesque views [...]
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