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First Person Perspective for 2012 Selection Day One

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Joel McCune

12 Apr 2012
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Solo Whitewater

Solo Whitewater

Recently I have seen articles discussing paddling alone on whitewater in a few blogs, and even in print publications, which surprises me. I have been paddling whitewater for over 40 years, and have been confidently paddling IV-V for around 30 years. Conventional wisdom is never paddle alone. When the
15 Sep 2026 4 min read

Remembering Dale Barton

It was 1983. I was six years old. The Arkansas Canoe Club was doing a base camp at Five Points on the Arkansas River. This was long before the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area. At Five Points there was a place you could pull off on the river side, and drive
13 Sep 2026 3 min read
Revel in the Doing

Revel in the Doing

...now everything ahead seems kind of empty and I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing. Buzz Holmstrom penned these words in 1937 after running the last and largest rapid, Lava Cliff, in the Grand Canyon. The next day he would finish his trip,
13 Sep 2026 5 min read
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