What a year it's been for rain....or actually the lack thereof. After almost forgetting where the Haw River was, we finally had a day-and-a-half long drenching rain that brought the rivers up. Other commitments kept us from hitting the absolute prime part of the bubble, but we did get in a great day on the 27th and ran the middle Haw. It was like the good old days (when we had more normal global weather patterns). I hope the winter shows similar promise.
I had committed to teaching a land-based portion of a river-kayak course the morning of prime flows but at least we got in this little respite.
Another commitment I had made; one that took the whole day Sunday, was to man a CCC and ACA table at the grand opening of the new Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary (I turned down 3 other trips on the Haw that morning to do it...what a martyr). We're hoping that TAC sees the light and interest of the paddling community in having another indoor facility for roll practice and training and will open the facility to these types of events for the public. Our presence at the opening was well
recieved and I had a lot of folks there ask if we
would have rolling sessions there. I guess that all depends on the public's expressed demand for such. We'll see. It is a nice looking facility.
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