2007 Trip Schedule

Canoeing and kayaking (paddling) can be dangerous and physically demanding. Canoeists and kayakers (paddlers) take personal responsibility for their personal safety. By participating in BRV trips, you acknowledge an assumption of the risks involved in paddling, which could include serious injury or death.

The following table lists the trips that BRV members will be leading in 2007. Please note that trip location depends on river levels being sufficient and safe for boating. Trip leaders reserve the right to substitute similar river destinations for the trip they are scheduled to lead. They also decide whether a scheduled trip will occur on Saturday, Sunday, or on both days of their weekend. You must contact the trip leader during the week leading up to a trip, preferrably before Friday evening (since the leader may leave early for the trip). The trip leader reserves the right to restrict the number of paddlers on the trip and to ascertain whether you have the experience to run the chosen river(s). The leader will inform you of the meeting time and location and any other pertinent details for the trip.

The BRV roster contains the official BRV trip schedule. Besides the info listed below it also includes trip leader's phone numbers as well as all e-mail addresses for all members with e-mail access. You will receive both the BRV roster and The Voyageur newsletter upon joining the BRV.

Date	Location	Difficulty	Contact
March 10-11	Tye/Piney/Pedlar Rivers	Intermediate/Advanced	Ron Knipling
March 17	Sideling Hill Creek or Dealer's Choice	Practiced Novice/Lower Intermediate	Jenny Thomas
March 24	Class 3 Creek	Intermediate/Advanced	Lou Campagna
March 31	Dealer's Choice	Intermediate	Jim Pruitt
March 31	Potomac River Watershed Clean-up		Kathleen Sengstock
April 7-8	Cheat/South Branch Tribs; e.g., Glady, Moorefield	Intermediate/Advanced	Ron Knipling
April 14	Marsh Creek	Intermediate	Ron Knipling
April 14	Bloomington	Lower Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
April 28	Cheat	Advanced	Rick Koller
April 28	Bloomington	Lower Intermediate	Ginnie DeSeau
May 5-6	Tygart	Advanced	Keith Merkel
May 12-13	Bloomington	Lower Intermediate	Jo Cox and Glen Johnston
May 13	South Branch Potomac	Intermediate	Clark Childers
May 19-20	Cranberry etc.	Advanced	Rick Koller
May 26-28	Smokehole Camper	Intermediate	Frank Fico/Gus Anderson
May 26-28	Southern Rivers/Hiking	Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
June 9-10	Cheat/Yough	Intermediate/Advanced	Wes Mills
June 9	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
June 16-17	Dealer's Choice	Intermediate/Advanced	Kim Buttleman
June 23-24	Dealer's Choice	Intermediate/Advanced	Marilyn Jones or Mike Wellman
June 23	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
June 24	Violette's Lock	Practiced Novice	Kathleen Sengstock
June 30 - July 1	Dealer's Choice	Intermediate/Advanced	Rick Koller
June 30 - July 8	Smokies w/Carolina Canoe Club	Intermediate	Ed Evangelidi
July 4 AM	Little Falls	Intermediate	Pete Dragon
July 4 PM	DC Fireworks	Novice	Star Mitchell
July 14 PM	BRV Picnic	All	Club Officers
July 14	Dealer's Choice	Lower Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
July 15	Violette's Lock	Practiced Novice	Kathleen Sengstock
July 21	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Cancelled
July 29	Violette's Lock	Practiced Novice	Kathleen Sengstock
Early August (~2 weeks)	Quebec Rivers; e.g., Ottawa, Gatineau, Rouge, Mattawin, Batiscan, Tewksbury	Advanced	Mike Gilchrist
August 4	National Championships (Garrett County)		Need Leader. To volunteer, contact Jenny Thomas
August 4	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
August 11	Dealer's Choice (perhaps paddling at ASCI, the new whitewater center in Garrett Co)	Intermediate	Jo Cox and Glen Johnston
August 11	Dealer's Choice	Lower Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
August 18	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
August 25-26	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Cancelled
September 1-3	New River Rendezvous	Advanced	Dick Pierce
September 3	Little Falls	Intermediate	Ron Knipling
September 8-9	Upper/Lower Gauley	Advanced	Court Ogilvie
September 15-16	Lower Gauley & Dealer's Choice	Advanced	Mike Gilchrist
September 15	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
September 29-30	Lower Yough	Intermediate	Pete Dragon
A weekend in October	Russell Fork - Class III Section	Intermediate	Beth Koller
October 6-9	Eastern Shore	Novice	Ed Evangelidi
October 22-26	1-2 Fall Color Day Trips	Novice/Intermediate	Ron Knipling
October 27	Nantahala	Lower Intermediate	Jennifer Plyler
November 3-4	Tohickon	Intermediate	Courtney Caldwell
November 9-12	NJ Pine Barrens	Novice	Ed Evangelidi

For all Yough trips, please contact the trip leader no later than Wednesday preceeding the scheduled weekend trip. This should allow sufficient time to reserve boat permits.

In addition to the above trips, Steve Ettinger regularly leads the Thursday Paddling Group, a group that paddles whitewater streams of various difficulties on most Thursdays, except during the winter. If you would like to get on their e-mail list, contact Steve at ettingersj@aol.com.

If you would like to lead a trip on dates other than those listed above or can lead a trip that's listed as needing a leader, please let Jenny Thomas, our trip coordinator, know and she will get in touch with you. Or, if you like, you can just state in your e-mail when and where you would like to lead your trip and she'll get it in the schedule.