Blue Ridge Voyageurs Canoe Club Trip Schedule

Blue Ridge Voyageurs

2013 Trip Schedule
(Updated May 19, 2013)

Notice and Assumption of Risk:
Whitewater paddling is a risky outdoor sport. BRV is not responsible for any individual’s decision to participate in a trip, or for his or her decision to run any river or section of a river.

Please Note:

We welcome new paddlers, guests, and out-of-town boaters. To participate in a BRV outing, contact a trip coordinator or see the Contact Us page to get in touch.
BRV members receive a roster that contact information for the entire club, The Voyageur newsletter, and periodic email messages about late-breaking trips.
The list of scheduled trips below remains a work in progress and reflects mostly weekend trips. Most trips are ad hoc and announced via the BRV email list.
You must communicate directly with the trip coordinator before participating on a BRV paddling trip. He or she will inform you about logistics, etc.
Trip leaders are volunteers and retain the right to deny participation to non BRV members or those whose skills, experience or gear they suspect may be insufficient to safely participate.
For paddling and river safety instruction, check out the Canoe Cruisers' Association's Web page.
Many thanks to Charlie Duffey for leading swift water rescue, kayaking, and other paddling practice instruction sessions and workouts.
For mid-week trips, contact Steve Ettinger about intermediate-level river and creek trips for the Thursday Paddlers' group, from March/April to October/November, "whenever water and weather conditions are suitable.”
(Ever wonder why it often rains on Wednesdays? The answer has something to do with Steve and the gang.)

To add or change a trip listing:
Please email Mike Martin or call him at 240-489-3379.To post or change a trip on short notice, send a “reply all” e-mail to a BRV email message.

MAR	APR	MAY	JUNE	JULY	AUG	SEPT	OCT	NOV	DEC
Thanks to all who've offered to run the trips below. Click here to see some of trips we're waiting to add dates for. Click here for area dam release schedules.

Date

Location

Difficulty¹

Contact

MARCH 20132

March 9 (Sat.)

March 10 (Sun.)
(Daylight Savings Time begins)

Small Stream (i.e. Passage Creek)

Class 2-3

Ron Knipling

March 16-17 (Sat. - Sun.)

Hopeville Canyon/Smoke Hole

Bob Maxey

March 24 (Sun.)

Rappahannock or tributary creek
(i.e. Thorton/Hughes)

LI/I

Hendrik van Oss

March 30 (Sat.)

Dealer's Choice

TBA

Rick Koller

APRIL 2013

April 6 (Sat.)

Annual Potomac River Cleanup
Penneyfield Lock

N/PN

Kathleen Sengstock
(301) 649-3917

April 6 (Sat.)

Dealer's Choice

Jenny Thomas and Kim Buttleman

April 13-14 (Sat. - Sun.)

Elk River Festival?
(a.k.a., Webster Wildwater Weekend, Webster Springs, WV)

I-A

Mike Martin, Daryl Hall &
Courtney Caldwell

April 13-14 (Sat. - Sun.)

Bloomington Release

LI-I

Matt Anderson [?]

April 20-21 (Sat. - Sun.)

April 19-21 (Fri. - Sun.)

River Kayak Level 4 Instructor Certification Workshop
(With Outdoor Excursions)

Charlie Duffy
(Home) (703) 938-3949 (Cell) (703) 407-0909

April 27-28 (Sat. - Sun.)

River Kayak Level 4 Instructor Certification Workshop
(With Outdoor Excursions)

Charlie Duffy
(Home) (703) 938-3949 (Cell) (703) 407-0909

MAY 2013

May 2-6 (Thurs. - Sun.)

Grand Canyons (of the East) camper
Pine creek PA gorge and Genessee River NY

Class 2-3

Ed Evangelidi

May 4 (Sat.)
1-3 or 3-5 p.m.

Book signing party for Steve Ettinger's guidebook:
Capital Canoeing and Kayaking:
A Complete Guide to Whitewater Streams within Two Hours of Washington, DC
Hosted by Barb Brown, 10801 Admiral Drive, Potomac MD

All

Please RSVP to:
Barb Brown 301-765-9115,
Dick Pierce, or
Steve Ettinger

May 4-5 (Sat. - Sun.)

May 11 (Sat.)

CCA's Annual Potomac Downriver Race

May 11-12 (Sat. - Sun.)

May 11-19

Smokey Mountains River Trip

I-A

Richard Hopley

May 18-19 (Sat. - Sun.)

Stonycreek River Festival
Camping/food/music avalaible at Greenhouse Park in Ferndale.
Camping also available at Quemahoning Reservoir Recreation Area and at Nanty-Glo Park.

LI-I?

Memorial Day Weekend
May 24-27 (Fri-Mon)

Car Camper at Teeters Campground, Albright, WV
An informal annual gathering from which many LI to A trips have formed)

I-A

Mike Martin, Daryl Hall &
Courtney Caldwell

June 2013

June 1-2 (Sat. - Sun.)

June 8-9 (Sat. - Sun.)

June 15 (Sat.)

Dealer's Choice

TBA

Rick Koller

June 22-23 (Sat. - Sun.)

Lehigh
Camper at Hickory Run State Park

LI-I

Alan Dickerson

June 29-30 (Sat. - Sun.)

JULY 2013 2012

June 30-July 7

Carolina Canoe Club Week of Rivers

LI-A

Ed Evangelidi

Independence Day
July 4 (Thurs.)

July 13-14 (Sat. - Sun.)

July 20 (Sat.)

Dealer's Choice

TBA

Rick Koller

July 27-28 (Sat. - Sun.)

TBA (Sat. .)

BRV Moonlight Picnic - Violette's Lock

TBA (Sat., July 13 or 20.)

The second annual Potomac Islands Cleanup will be held on Saturday, July 13 or 20, from
Rileys Lock to Pennyfield Lock.

N-A

Kathleen Sengstock kathleen456@verizon.net

AUGUST 2013

Aug. 2-4 (Fri. - Sun.)

Flood City Music Festival
Paddle, Camp, Party

PN-I
(whatever’s running near Johnstown, PA)

Courtney Caldwell &
Ed Evangelidi

Aug. 10-11 (Sat. - Sun.)

Aug. 17-18 (Sat. - Sun.)

Aug. 24-25 (Sat. - Sun.)

SEPTEMBER 2013

Labor Day weekend
Aug. 29-Sept. 2 (Fri. - Mon.)

New River Rendezvous (multi-club gathering)

I-A

(BRV trip coordinator needed)

Sept. 7-8 (Sat. - Sun.)

Sept. 14-15 (Sat. - Sun.)

Sept. 21-22 (Sat. - Sun.)

Sept. 28-29 (Sat. - Sun.)

OCTOBER 2013

Oct. 5-6 (Sat. - Sun.)

Columbus Day Weekend
Oct. 12-14 (Sat. - Mon.)

New Jersey Pine Barrens Car Camper

Ed Evangelidi

Oct. 19-20 (Sat. - Sun.)

Oct. 26-27 (Sat. - Sun.)

NOVEMBER 2013

Nov. 2-3
(Sat - Sun)

Tohickon Creek
Fall dam release

Courtney Caldwell

Veterans Day Weekend
Nov. 12-14

Eastern Shore Car Camper

N/PN

Ed Evangelidi

DECEMBER 2013

TBA

BRV Holiday Party

Mark Wray

TBA (mid Dec- mid Jan.)

Florida creeks and rivers

Ed Evangelidi

IN THE WORKS

For updates for these trips, stay tuned to this page and BRV emails.

TBA

Lehigh

LI/ILI

Beth Koller

TBA

Bloomington

LI/I

Glen Johnston & Jo Cox

TBA

Shenandoah Staircase

LI/I

Ginny DeSeau

TBA

Bloomington

LI/I

Ginny DeSeau

Summer TBA

Viollettes Lock or Staircase/Needles & BBQ at our (nearby) place

N/PN

Mike Martin & Daryl Hall

WV/MD/PA Area Dam Release Schedules

Gauley River Fall Dam Releases:
(scheduled as of Feb. 2013)

Fri, Sep 06 - Mon, Sep 09
Fri, Sep 13 - Mon, Sep 16
Fri, Sep 20 - Mon, Sep 23
Fri, Sep 27 - Mon, Sep 30
Fri, Oct 04 - Mon, Oct 07
Sat, Oct 12 - Sun, Oct 13

Bloomington (N. Branch Potomac) Releases

Stonycreek Releases

Upper Yough

1 For river difficulty descriptions, see BRV's List of River Rankings and AW's International Scale of River Difficulty