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In New Brunswick, Eric Burly and Adam Trembly made the first descent of the Musquash River West Branch during a dam release on August 22. The Musquash is 20 kilometres west of Saint John. Only a few kilometres long, it flows nonstop with multiple drops, ending with one class IV…. Some of the top paddlers who visited Reversing Falls recently will be featured on Lunch Video Mag #11…. Newfoundland is continuing the tradition of the Piper's Hole River Festival on April 17–18. Contact Chris
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www.kayakers.nf.ca\river- snl…. In Nova Scotia there has been no update for the Bang Falls Rodeo and its website has gone AWOL. Stay tuned…. Further west, Les Amis de la Riviere Kipawa has started making arrangements for the 18th annual edition of the popular Kipawa River Rally (June 26–27). The Kipawa will be includ- ed in the "Adopt a River" campaign that has protected over a dozen Quebec rivers from private hydroelectric development. Les Amis is looking for volunteers for two executive positions as well as lending a hand at the rally or participating in local ecotourism-type proj- ects. For more details please contact Doug Skeggs:
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Ontario was big news for a province of paddlers that two years ago wondered if “normal” levels would ever return. “This has definitely been the best fall paddling that I have seen in eight years,” said Haliburton-based Thom Lambert. All the Hwy 7 rivers including Crowe Bridge, and the Madawaska, Gull, Irvine and Elora Gorge and Parkhill on the Grand River were cranking for late-fall runs. High water levels in the summer prompted the cancellation of the annual Equinox Adventures Ottawa River Rodeo. “Unfortunately the day before the weekend it dropped,” said organizer Paul Sevcik. Not discour- aged, Sevcik says the 10- year-old rodeo will be back, bigger and better for
Labour Day weekend, 2004. Ottawa Kayak stepped up five days before the weekend and organized the impromptu Screaming Beaver Bash for Cash. Tyler Curtis walked away from this laidback
event $350 dollars richer…. With the dawn of a new school year, we saw the dawn of a new paddling club in Thunder Bay—the Lakehead University Club of Kayakers (LUCK). According to their website (
www.flash.lakeheadu.ca/~luck/), it’s a student club but also welcomes “townies”…. The Trailhead Show returns to the Carleton University Field House, March 5–7. The venue offers Olympic-sized pool demos and clinics, and non-stop lectures, seminars and guest speakers. Of special interest on Friday evening is the CD release party for Canoesongs, a compilation of classic canoeing songs by some of Canada’s top folk artists including Bruce Cockburn and Fred Penner. See
www.canoesongs.ca, or contact Trailhead through
www.trailhead.ca/show…. And last but not least: Boatwerks in Minden is pleased to announce that there is now a Tim Horton's open for business on Hwy 35 just south of their store and a five-minute drive from the Gull.
—Bryan McKenzie
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In the West After a long, dry summer, five straight days of tor- rential rain hit coastal B.C. in mid-October. Rutherford Creek washed out Highway 99 north of Whistler, changing the channel planned for the new artificial whitewater facility. The Cheakamus burst its banks and Highway 99, cutting Whistler off in both directions. The floods moved river channels and changed rapids all across the Coast…. The “crème de la crème of the news on the Island,” according to Vancouver Island Whitewater Paddling Society prez Shayne Vollmers, is that his group has entered negotiations to create a low-flow, almost-year-round play feature on Courtenay’s Puntledge River. Vollmers also worked on a new guidebook for the Island, organized the second annual Tofino Kayak Surf Fest—results and info at
www.surfkayak.org—and ran a new run, Moriarty Creek…. Braden Fandrich also knocked off a first descent on October 2 by paddling the four- kilometre lower Cayoosh Creek Canyon with Brett Eyben. Fandrich also organized the first ever Frog Rodeo on the Thompson River. It included Jell-O wrestling in a raft, a pool-toy/blow-up-doll surf off, and a freestyle comp…. In the Nooksuck Slalom Race south of the border, Canadians proved to be spoilers winning the C1, K1Jr, K1, K1W, and K1WJr. Watch for slalom events along the Coast to start the 2004 season—
www.whitewater.org. One of the first will be on the Cowichan River on Vancouver Island, April 12–13.
—Ryan Stuart
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