At Least One Trip
Here we are on the 3rd of March, and I’ve already got 8 people signed up for my annual novice trip mid-April! Were you on a past novice trip? Boating thanks to people coordinating trips when you started out? Was …
Author: Rick Steeves
CCC Membership
The CCC currently has 754 paid members! Membership in the CCC is awesome. You become an active part of a great community, adding your voice to CCC discussions. Your membership helps support other organizations and conservation efforts related to paddling. …
New WOR Clinic Coordinator!
I’m pleased to announce that Anthony Davis Brown has volunteered to be the new Week of Rivers Clinic Coordinator! Feel free to reach out to him with ideas for WOR clinics or to volunteer to coordinate a clinic at WOR. …
Follow the CCC!
Facebook is a great tool for specific things, but keeping track of posts is not its strength. Never fear, you can follow the CCC email list, RSS feed, and/or Twitter feed for updates, or even add the CCC calendar to …
CCC Gift Cards
Trying to find that perfect last-minute gift? Have a friend you’d love to see as a member of the CCC? A child that’s left the home that you’d like to help maintain their CCC membership? Well, now’s your chance, and …
Ocoee Drawdown 2022
The last week of September is Ocoee Drawdown, where the Ocoee runs the entire week. During the week of Drawdown the Ocoee has little to no raft traffic (literally a couple of rafts here and there). You can paddle the …
Yough’ing
John MacDonald and I decided to make a week-long trip up to the lower section of the Youghiogheny River, joined by Jim Keihn. We also paddled with other groups for a couple of days. The Youghiogheny River (Yough for short, …
Ocoee Weekend
I’ve had a long Spring, and was looking forward to my first chance on the Ocoee this year. While we started out with eight signed up, we lost three in the last couple of days to other causes. One due …
Ocoee Drawdown 2021
The Middle Ocoee is a Class III/III+ river with 15 rapids packed almost back-to-back for five miles. One of the most heavily-rafted rivers in the world, during Drawdown the dam-controlled Ocoee runs the entire week, with little to no raft-traffic …
Ocoee Coordination
Ocoee Coordination I was looking forward to a New River Gorge trip John McDonald had considered. However, John had injured his shoulder/neck, didn’t want to paddle a remote river, and wasn’t certain how he’d be feeling as the weekend approached. …