Balcony Falls

I had a great trip to the Balcony Falls section of the James River in Virginia yesterday. Eight of us from the triangle area drove up for the day-trip and met 3 folks from Bristol, TN to run the river. With flow about 525cfs/2.2' there wasn't much of a woohoo factor to the run but we had several first-timers with us and had a great time anyway. We had a pretty stiff tail wind all day with 50 deg. temps and cloudy skies broken every so often with rays of sunshine painting the fall colors of the gorge in a dramatic fashion. I could shoot myself for having forgotten to bring a camera. There were some real Kodak moments. Got back home at about 10:30 after a hearty dinner.

Southbound

The ACA's annual meeting was held in Panama City, FL last weekend and Nan and I took off down there for my first ACA Board of Directors meeting. I really didn't know what to expect. I sat through the SEIC meeting on Friday listening to the state of training activities. It was compelling. Saturday and Sunday saw the full Board meeting where we went over ACA's business and interviewed candidates for the new Executive Director. It was a nice weekend at a really nice resort: the Marriott Bay Point(except for the absence of free WiFi that you can get at ANY fleabag motel these days). We went down through Atlanta and back up on I-95 along the east coast. It was nice to go by some of my old cave diving haunts. Twenty three hours of driving later, we're back and looking for new adventure.