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M E M B E R S ONL Y
Backcountry Paddling Excursions 2013
Learn more about the 2013 ACA Members-Only Backcountry Paddling Excursions:
www.americancanoe.org/excursions
Guanaja, Honduras ECO-SERVICE/FLY FISHING/PADDLING TRIP
Dates: June 15–22, 2013
Location: Fly Fish Guanaja has several spots remaining for high school students looking for a Fly fishing/ Paddling/Eco-service trip of a lifetime
Host: Visit
virginiaoutside.com, for more information under Summer Camps/Travel and Service Camps or contact Tee Clarkson 804-687-1869.
Western North Carolina SUP
Dates: July 8–13, 2013
Location: Lake Fontana, Tukaseegee River, and more Cost: $850
Hosts: ACA Instructor Trainer Educator Chris Stec and Black Dog Paddle
Greece SEA KAYAKING
Dates: September 1–8, 2013 Location: Island of Poros, Greece Cost: $1,399
Hosts: ACA Instructor Trainer Educator Barbara Cutter, and Adventure Tourism Services
Alaska SEA KAYAKING
Dates: September 18–22, 2013
Location: Seward, AK, and Resurrection Bay Cost: $899
Hosts: Kayak Adventures Worldwide and ACA Instructor Trainer Educator Tom Nickels
Costa Rica CANOE, KAYAK, AND RAFT
Dates: September 21–28, 2013 Location: Costa Rica Cost: TBA Hosts: Costa Rica Rios
A percentage of each registration fee goes directly to support the ongoing efforts of the ACA on behalf of all paddlers to fulfill our mission of education, stewardship, recreation and competition.
56 RAPID EARLY SUMMER 2013 A C A ST OR I ES
Paddling Experience R
ising from the banks, huge oaks stand like monuments to the way things used to be. Closer to the forest floor, undergrowth wraps and
weaves its way around everything from saplings to deadfall, forming an impenetrable wall of lush greenness. Down here the lingering fog still lurks quietly on the water’s surface. If one didn’t know any better, she might feel as if she had been sent back 400 years to a time when our ancestors first discovered this land. A flick of the bail and a flick of the wrist send a small grub catapulting
through the cool air, dropping with a soft splash by a fallen tree. It takes just two turns of the handle and the line comes tight, slicing through the slow current to the middle of the small river. In a minute, a fine redbreast sunfish surrenders to the hand. These are the sort of wild experiences I remember from my youth, in
a time before technology weighed on the shoulders of society like some giant mechanical ape and nearly all a child’s experiences, at least the most important and memorable ones, took place outdoors. Fortunately these small wild places still exist within a short drive of
nearly everyone in the country. With spring on the horizon, the weather will soon be right to paddle in that little creek you cross on the way to work every day and have wondered where it leads or if there are any fish in it, or that stretch of river you have been meaning to paddle for years. Let this be the year! And when you go, do yourself a favor, take a kid with you. There is nothing most of us do in life more important than introducing kids to the outdoors. Tee Clarkson teaches English in Henrico County, Virginia and runs
Virginia Outside, a company dedicated to getting kids exactly where you would guess, outside.
virginiaoutside.com .
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