April Meeting

The meeting on April 3rd will be at Garcia?s. Yeah, non-smoking now!!!Bring ideas about club trips and events for this Spring.

Trip Reports

Mar 3:David & Connie MaMahan, Kipp Van Laanan, Kathy Smith and a few otherspaddled Barton Creek in Austin. That was their first descent of the Creek and had a great time.

Mar 12: Gay Culbertson paddled about 6 miles of the San Antonio River below San Antonio.It was a peaceful run on a small, tree infested creek. The water is nice, but the scenery makes the trip. No one around-nothing but nature.

Mar 24: Same crew along with Gay Culbertson played for 4 hours on the San Marcos river while it is up. We spent a lot of time in one rapids with 18-24? waves practicing our strokes and maneuvers. We also spent time throwing ropes and playing in the eddies at another rapid.

Mar 25: Same crew as above ran Barton Creek. The water was a little low but allowed us to practice boat maneuvering, paddle stokes and balancing on rocks. We didn?t have to walk any and only scraped bottom a few rapids. The Creek is a beautiful run with high chalk bluffs, lots of trees and houses up on the cliffs.

Mar 31: Kipp ,Kathy, David &,Connie paddled Barton Creek and reported a great trip. The water was higher than last time we did it so was a little morefun.

Apr 1:Kipp, Kathy, Gay and Arwyn paddled the Lower Guad at around 700cfs. The first few rapids were awesome with some great hydraulics and big holes. Gruene Rapid was probably the best with 3? waves and one close to 4? in a nice long wave train. We ran it 4 times and had a blast.

Next Meeting

The May 1st meeting will be at a lake-either Lake Bryan or the Aggie lake by the Fireman?s training facility. I?ll know more soon.

Future Club Trips

April 28-29: Austin Paddlefest& Town Lake Clean-up

Contact: Gay 690-6630

No other club trips are planned. Someone needs to get busy and plan something.

 Future Individual Trips

**Get in touch with the contact person to make sure you can go before planning on joining us. Many of these are technical and require experience.**

April 7-8:Lower Guad playday

Contact: Kipp 279-6560

April 13-16: Garner State Park-Frio, Medina & maybe the Nueces rivers

Contact: Gay 690-6630

April 21-22: Lower & Upper Guad

Contact: Gay 690-6630

May 4-6: Cossatot River in Arkansas

Contact: Kipp 279-6560

May 26-June 4: Big Bend-Boquillas and Santa Elena Canyons

Contact: Gay 690-6630

June 6-16: Buffalo River in Arkansas-80-100 miles

Contact: Kipp 279-6560
 

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