Monthly Archives: August 2008

Preparing for the Gauley

Gauley Season is quickly approaching for us paddlers!  Lots of chatter has already started on boating forums and e-mail groups about this year’s Gauley season.  Below is a link I found on one of the local paddling forums I frequent.  The web site is a great reference for a rapid by rapid description with video.  [...]

NBC Olympics Men’s K-1 & C-1 Video Coverage

Check out the link below for some of the Olympic Whitewater Action!
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=cnuh-bj-sd23-081108-145502&channelcode=sportca&forcereload=true

NOC/Dagger Freestyle Shootout Coming Soon!

This is event is being billed as what could be the largest Freestyle competition in the entire Eastern USA this year!  Andrew Lowd (Charlotte World Kayak Ambassador) and your’s truly will be judging the event during the weekend.  Come on out to the NOC and sign-up to compete.  There is a division for everybody to [...]

Congrats to Casey Eichfeld (C-2 Olympic Athlete)!

Casey competed in our first Charlotte / Tri-Cities Hometown Throwdown #1 bzck in April 2008.  Below is a interview story from NBC on Casey.  Check out his Bio with this link:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=1414/bio/index.html
Speaking with Casey Eichfeld

A lifelong paddler, Casey Eichfeld makes his Olympic debut at 18 years old. He paddles in the C-2 with his best friend, [...]

Upper Chattooga River and Rob Need Your Help‏

A message from Rob Maxwell:
I need a little (a lot of) help! I was planning on posting a letter
to as many national boating message boards and blogs, about the Upper
Chattooga boating ban, as I could. But wife, kids, job, life, and
daily “Chattooga” posts on BoaterTalk.com keep getting in the way.
So, now I’m calling on you, the [...]

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