http://whitewaterwishes.com Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:27:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What a weekend! I packed all my gear, with the intentions of mountain biking, kayaking and caving all in one weekend. I was extremely excited to learn to mountain bike and explore a cave. I left on Thursday afternoon and headed for Spartanburg to meet up with Chris. After some minor car troubles, I arrived at [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=676 It was a beautiful day today at the whitewater center. We started up the pumps for the first time this year without a hitch. Guide school started and appeared to have a really good turn out. The conveyor belt is still under construction, but when it does start it should be better than ever. The [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=595 Dwight N and I got to run the Green River Dries. Although it was a little lower than we had prefered, we still had a blast. Here is Dwight’s write up on the event! This morning I woke up a 5am and got on the road to meet James Capozzi at Belmont. James would get two [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=594 I thought I’d start this post with a really neat shot of our Subaru parked in front of our pumps. All the water has been drained down to roughly two inches inside the pump vaults. We inspected the pumps and found them to be in excellent condition. The impellers are not out of whack, and [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=586 The US National Whitewater Center has been draining the water in order to do general maintenence on the pumps, clean up some of the algae and inspect the concrete in the channels. As of today, at about 5PM there is a foot of water in the bottom pond. We first drained the water from the channels [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=571 Here at Channel 9 they were forecasting blizzard conditions. I had the day off and I wasn’t about to sit around. With Tommy back from school and John up in Hickory, we figured Wilson Creek was a perfect run for a snowy day. In my neighborhood it just rained and sleeted- no snow. Tommy got [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=531 I headed up after work to meet up with John for some boating at Wilson. After some signature biscuts, a cut lock and front door we forgot to close, we headed out to hit the river. We decided we’d take our time, do one long run and try and take some pictures at some of [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=524 Sean, Steve and I decided that a good old fashion hike was in order. I thought it would be a cool idea to show them Wilson Creek and hike into North Harper Creek to check out the falls. We left their place around 10am and headed up toward Lenoir. We realized that it was going to [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=410 Two-thirds of the US were getting some kind of precipitation. What else was I going to do? Work? I woke up for work in the morning to look outside and see pouring rain. My boat and gear were already in the car so I headed off to work. The forecast looked promising- rain until 11 or [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=333 My weekend started on Thursday with a run down Wilson Creek with Angela. We left at around 10, and did two runs. For our second run we ran into Doug and Isaiah. Both runs were a blast. The level was around +3 inches. On Friday I went to the Watauga with Jim M, Russ L, Dave [...]]]> http://whitewaterwishes.com/?p=316