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One person's effort to do his best as a canoe and kayak racer

Monday, October 28, 2024

Monday photo feature

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The father-daughter team of Mike Herbert and Savanna Wright finish up a race on the Tennessee River at Hales Bar Marina near Haletown, Tenne...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Paddling what little water we've got on a cool weekend

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I'd almost forgotten what a cloudy day looked like, but yesterday refreshed my memory.  In addition to overcast skies we had a brisk nor...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Warm weather fun

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This week we've had plentiful sunshine and near-record-high temperatures for late October.  I've had ideas floating around in my hea...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Monday photo feature

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Here we have a before-and-after pair of photos--well, actually it's after-and-before, since the newer picture is on top.  We're look...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Healing and getting back in motion

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The last time I posted here I mentioned I was trying to get a response from my doctor's office about an X-ray I'd had taken.  They f...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Monday photos feature

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Yes, it's "photos" plural this week because I've got a number of them to share. The photo above, a screen-grab from WVLT-K...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Mountain devastation makes my troubles seem small

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I decided to go back to the doctor on Wednesday because of both the injury to my chest area and my continued coughing and chest congestion. ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Catastrophe in the mountains to the east, and not much paddling here at home

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Times are tough for a part of the world that's near and dear to me.  The mountains of western North Carolina are where I fell in love wi...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Monday photo feature

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In this photo I'm using an axe to shape a chair part during the class I took at the Maine Coast Craft School near Bristol, Maine, in 202...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

From one ailment to the next

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My illness continued well into this past week.  By Sunday evening I was developing a bad cough, and by Tuesday I knew it was time to see a d...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Monday photo feature

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I mentioned a couple of posts ago that the Gauley River in West Virginia is an annual destination for paddlers.  That's because every Se...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

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I mentioned at the end of my last post that I was taking a few days off, and probably wouldn't paddle again until this weekend.  Well, m...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Gaw-lee! I'd forgotten how big that water is

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For those who haven't been paying close attention: I grew up paddling whitewater, but did very little of it in the last eight years or s...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

I'm off to the mountains again

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Yesterday afternoon I went downtown and did a short paddle in the surfski.  Then I carried the whitewater boat up the ramp and put it on my ...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Monday photo feature

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One of the things I did when I visited camp the weekend before last was go by the site of the photo I posted here two weeks ago. Back when ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Sort of a ho-hum weekend

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This weekend we've had some thundershowers in the area that have kept the temperature down a bit, but not the humidity.  It was as muggy...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Traveling to the mountains where the water runs white

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I'm back home from my short trip to east Tennessee and western North Carolina.  Last weekend I attended the centennial celebration at th...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Leaving town a bit later than planned

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My travel plans have changed.  My uncle died sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning, and the funeral is tomorrow afternoon up near Jackson...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Monday photo feature

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Mike Davis shot this photo on the canoe dock at Camp Carolina for Boys just outside Brevard, North Carolina, around 1990.  I attended this c...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Post-Olympic letdown

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Since the Olympics ended a week ago I hardly know what to write about here. Basically it was another week of the same stuff I've been do...
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