Category Archives: Confluence - Ohiopyle

FNFS: Immersion Research King of the River - Top 10

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) [...]

Giant Slalom Pictures are up

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 [...]

FNFS: Riversport School of Paddling Boatercross this Friday - 7/27

Event # 4 for the Friday Night Fun Series is the Riversport School of Paddling Boatercross. Its amazing to think the series is now over 1/2 way to completion. It seems like the first event was just last friday. Still, here we go again!
 Info:
Riversport School of Paddling Boatercross
Location: Adventuresports Center International, Mchenry, MD
Time:
Registration begins at [...]

Immersion Research Giant Slalom Results -edited 7/24

Well, the first ever slalom race at ASCI is in the books, and it was an unequivocal success!
A total of 15 racers racing in 6 classes took two runs per class down the 10 gate course. The ten gates were hung over a full length course creating a more open course with 2 upstreams, 2 [...]

Immersion Research - Giant Slalom in 24 hours

I’m really excited about this one. Its been a struggle to get the logistics and format worked out with ASCI due to this being the first month of operations. They’ll be putting up wires for gates almost up until the event (me too when I get there) just to make sure it happens. SO due to [...]

Stonyboater Boatercross results and pics

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 [...]

Hidden Creek Treasures of Western MD

The 90 degree weather today made me think about the cooler weather of winter and creeking. So I figured I do the first of three creek posts. Here is info on Laural Run south of Oakland MD

Laurel Run
Laurel Run - FromPotomac
State
Forest to N. Branch of the
Potomac below Rattlesnake
1.6 miles 360 feet of drop
7 major [...]

Next event - Immersion Research Giant Slalom on 6/20

Yes this is another plug for the Friday Night Fun Series – Immersion Research Giant Slalom
July 20th
Adventuresports
Center International in
McHenry, MD So what is Giant Slalom? Its our attempt to spice up things and make slalom more accessible to more people. To that end, there are classes fop boats under 8′ 6″, plastic boats over that [...]

A quick post with results of the Stonyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross

The second round of the Friday Night Fun Series was the Stonyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross. The race took a distictive local feel with all of the racers being “local” boaters. Comparatively, the Freestyle event had over half the contestants from outside the area.
 Here are the results:
Here is the basics:
Overall
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Brian Homberg
3) Dustin Stough
4) Paige [...]

Stonyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross in 2 days

The Yough Paddling Club would love it if you and your friends will join us for the Stoneyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross this Friday. Yes, in two days the second of seven ASCI Friday Night Fun Series gets underway with registration at 5:00, athletes meeting at 6:15, and racing beginning at 6:30.
There is a boat length [...]

FFS: Wavesport Freestyle

What a weekend! Friday was the Friday Night Fun Series debut with the Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo. 19 Competitors and over 50 people watch saw a “causal event that ran professionaly”   according to Scott Barnes’ post on Boatertalk.
Team Wavesport served as Celebrity judges, and fun was had by everyone.
Results:
K1 Mens Expert - Jesse Shimrock  
K1 Mens Intermediate - [...]

ASCI Friday Night Fun Series starts on Friday

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 [...]

SAVAGE RELEASE ON JULY 1!

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 [...]

TR: Yough Loop - Sunday Evening Special

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 [...]

Creeks and streams of note

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 [...]

Western Maryland Boating

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 [...]

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