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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sorry about the delay in getting this up, but life has been interesting to say the least over the last week or so. So here are the brief results. I’ll have cmoprehensive results and standings after this weeks, Immersion Research Giant Slolam.
Results:
Overall:
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Brian Homberg
3) Dustin Stough
4) Paige Teegarden
Top 2 by class:
K1 Expert
1) Jesse [...]
I’ve been rushing around trying to get all the details covered for the first event and I forgot to even post about it. As you may know, I am a volunteer coordinator for the seven night, ASCI Priday Night Fun Series. It will include freestyle (Friday), Boatercross, and Giant Slalom.
The newly formed Yough Paddling Club decided [...]
In case you can’t tell, I’m pretty excited about this. It seems that ASCI, the DNR and the Upper Potomac Comission came to some kind of arrangement to secure the unscheduled summer Savage releases that were on the books for years.
Here is the link that confirms a 4 hour release on Sunday july 1, 2007 [...]
I spent an hour of last Sunday Evening enjoying the solitude and fun that only being the last boat on for the day can bring.
River level was 1.8, and it was 8 PM. The evening sun was fading off to Sunset and the dusk was moving into the valley creating lighting for a fall like [...]
The rain tonight has me thinking about little known creeks in the area here is a quick list of creeks nearby that see little use.
Cherry Run - Class III-IV
Distance: .75 miles in length
Location: flows into Deep Creek Lake along Rock Lodge Road
Gradient: 120+
Difficult Run (WV) - Class IV+
Distance: 4 miles
Location: Flows into N. Branch of Potomac from West [...]
On this blog you will find info about boating in Western MD. From info on the Friday Night Fun Series, that I,m coordinating at the Adventuresports Center to Yough Paddling Club info, and river info from the area. THis is my first try at Blogging so I hope this turns out well.
A couple quick links of [...]
Name: Nathan Blatchley
Age: 35
Years Boating: 23
Favorite types of rivers: Creeky class IVish rivers
Current Boats Paddled: PS6-200, Skeeter, Solo
Number of days a year on the water: 20-30 (wish it were more)
I am passionate about promoting the region and its paddling opportunities. It sure is nice to have 30 runs with in 45 minutes to an hour [...]
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