Comments on: Upper Gauley – Saturday Sept. 8, 2007 http://www.paddlin-ed.com/2007/09/10/upper-gauley-saturday-sept-8-2007 Tales of whitewater paddling, canoeing, and kayaking. Mon, 17 May 2010 00:31:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shane McCraw http://www.paddlin-ed.com/2007/09/10/upper-gauley-saturday-sept-8-2007/comment-page-1#comment-54 Shane McCraw Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:03:16 +0000 http://www.paddlin-ed.com/?p=51#comment-54 Ed, i just got a chance to run the Upper Gauley this past Friday, Sept. 21st. all i can say is wow. i went with Songer Whitewater...small raft with 5 people including the guide. did a high adventure run so we pretty much ran the riskiest lines you could do...pushing all the limits. swam a lot...but seemed to stay in the boat through all the class fives...usually coming out at the bottom of each with a boat FULL of water...but still hangin' on for the ride! all i can say is craziness. thanks to you and the instructors at the OHC WWSC...the least i can say i'll be going back from years to come!! it was neat running down what seemed to me was a monsterous instant death river and feeling better that i knew what was going on instead of being scared out of my witts!! GOOD TIMES!! Shane. Ed,

i just got a chance to run the Upper Gauley this past Friday, Sept. 21st. all i can say is wow. i went with Songer Whitewater…small raft with 5 people including the guide. did a high adventure run so we pretty much ran the riskiest lines you could do…pushing all the limits. swam a lot…but seemed to stay in the boat through all the class fives…usually coming out at the bottom of each with a boat FULL of water…but still hangin’ on for the ride! all i can say is craziness. thanks to you and the instructors at the OHC WWSC…the least i can say i’ll be going back from years to come!! it was neat running down what seemed to me was a monsterous instant death river and feeling better that i knew what was going on instead of being scared out of my witts!! GOOD TIMES!!

Shane.

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