Rapid’s Event Schedule
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Canadian National DR Race Rouge River, QC Patrick Gagne
radpat007@hotmail.com
Aug 13-29 2004 Olympics Athens, Greece
www.athens2004.com
DWIGHT PORT CARLING OTTAWA OAKVILLE
RICHMOND- HILL
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www.langfordcanoe.com
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Aug 14-15 Aquabatics Cup #4 Kananaskis, AB Jordie Mckenzie
jordfish@hotmail.com
Aug 14-15
Canadian National Slalom Team Championship Valleyfield, QC Greg Hunter
huntervg@hotmail.com
Aug 15
Skagit Wildwater Race Marblemount, WA
www.nwwhitewater.org
Aug 21-22 River Betty Festival Ottawa River, ON
c.jamieson@sympatico.ca www.riverbetty.com
Aug 21-22
Miracle Hot Springs Slalom Race Sierra Cup Slalom Series Miracle Hot Springs, CA Terry Valle
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Aug 21-22 Ashlu Creek Festival Squamish, BC Stuart Smith
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Upper Gatineau Whitewater Festival Maniwaki, QC Alain Bonin
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Aug 28-29 Quebec Cup #4 Jonquiere, QC
www.kayak.qc.ca/rodeo
Aug 29 Totem Cup Slalom Race Kananaskis, AB Greg Hunter
huntervg@hotmail.com
Sept TBA
North American Squirt Boating Championship Summersville, WV
www.northamericansquirt.com
Sept TBA
Gauley River Festival Summersville, WV
www.summersville.org
Sept 4-6
Ottawa River Festival Beachburg, ON
www.ottawakayak.com
Sept 4 KSF Festival
Lachine Rapids, QC
www.kayak.qc.ca/rodeo
Sept 4-5 Totem Cup - Provincial Slalom / Whitewater Championships Kananaskis, AB Greg Hunter
huntervg@hotmail.com
Sept 4-5
Equinox Adventures Ottawa River Rodeo
Calumet Island, Ottawa River ON Paul Sevcik
paul@equinoxadventures.com Sept 4-5
Club de Competition de Canots Jonquiere, QC
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Sept 10-12 Canada Cup National Championships Ottawa River, ON
www.ottawakayak.com
Sept 10-12 Riverpalooza Ottawa River, ON
River Run Paddling Centre 800-267-8504
www.riverrunners.com
Sept 11-12 Eddy Hop Slalom
Sierra Cup Slalom Series Bakersfield, CA Patti LeVeque
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Sept 12 Canada Cup Beachburg, ON
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Sept 12
Ottawa Pumphouse Slalom Ottawa, ON Ron Ridley
cridley@rogers.com Sept 12
Gull River Open Canoe Race Minden, ON Beth Kennedy
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Sept 18-19 Likely Paddle Festival Likely, BC Mark Savard
mark@redshreds.com Sept 18-19
Mokelumne Whitewater Races Sierra Cup Slalom Series Jackson, CA Tom Musolf
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Sept 25-26 Canada West Kayak Surf Festival Tofino, BC Sean Plecas
info@surfkayak.org
Sept 25-26 Bay Area Paddlefest San Mateo, CA
Shuswap Rodeo’s big air comp. Another notable highlight (or lowlight depending on what you think of men in skirts) at the 10th annual event included a kilt wearing hairy dude, a.k.a. Neil Trouton, floating downriver on a GT Snow Racer. Ah, the skin of summer! —Ryan Stuart
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2004 Fall // 47
Dru Lyall ramping at the Shuswap Rodeo. Lumber donated by Schapol Logging. photo by Emily Lussin
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Oct 1-4 Totem Cup Western Canadian Championship Kananaskis, AB Greg Hunter
huntervg@hotmail.com
Oct 2-3 Frog Rodeo Thompson River, BC Braden Fandrich
spaggie@hotmail.com
Oct 9-10 Quebec Cup #5 Mont-Rolland, QC
www.kayak.qc.ca/rodeo
Oct 9-10
WKC Nooksack Race Glacier, WA Bob Duffner
duffner.r@portseattle.org
Oct 16-17
Moose River Festival 2004 Old Forge, NY Chris Koll
(828) 252-0728 Oct 23-25
Whitewater Symposium Bryson City, NC
www.noc.com
For full Events Schedule go to
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Local Currents continued from p14
Canadian Freestyle Kayak and Canoe Team Trials are to be held September 4-5 on the Kananaskis River. Twenty-three spots, on the Canadian team bound for the 2005 World’s in Penrith, Australia, are up for grabs… Resurrection day is August 7th for Rutherford Creek. The run-of-river project, that united the B.C. paddling community against unchecked hydro development, is ready to open the valves on the man-made whitewater facility. “Expert boaters” will test out the channel at different water levels and suggest tweaks and changes to make it safer… Another year, another successful Kananaskis Whitewater Party… errr… Festival. Advanced junior kayaker Paul Manning-Hunter nailed a perfect bowling score of 300. The two entrants in the open canoe rodeo category, Paul Shurvin and Mary Bowles, tied… There is whitewater in Saskatchewan. Saskatoon resident, Gavin Broadbent says the Gardner Dam outflow has some sweet play spots frequented by a half-dozen local paddlers. Sask Power doesn’t release flow times, so sometimes a trip to the river turns into a two-hour drive to see wheat fields… How do you win a big air competition? It’s easy: throw a no-hands donkey
flip.That’s what Dylan Davidson threw, off the 25-foot kayak ramp, to win the
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