Category Archives: Nantahala

Awesome 2 days on the water!

Tuesday, August 19th
Wow! I’m sitting in front of the TV; watching the Olympics and eating a well earned bowl of cereal. I’m the last day of a long weekend for me here.
Last week I discovered there is a rock climbing club here in Wenzhou, China, so I went and checked the [...]

Angel got her roll!

I’ve been teaching my friend Angel how to roll. We had a few tries at a local lake in the past month but recently we got the okay and stored my kayaks in her neighborhood pool. We went there Monday and Wednesday morning for some practice. She got her roll Monday morning [...]

Patton’s on Nantahala River, NC

Since I’m still looking for rivers to paddle here in China I’m still actively reading the forums back home and on the AWC pages there has been a little talk about Patton’s classification as a Class III rapid when it used to be listed as Class II rapid. I chimed in there but then [...]