BIG WATER RIVER RUNNING ON THE DRYWAY WITH CHRIS SPELIUS - DISCONTINUED FOR 2007
Top 3 Reasons to Go
- New England's only guaranteed summer whitewater only 2 hours from Boston and 3 1/2 hours from New York
- Our friendly professional instructors are ACA certified and love passing on their passion for the sport. Our ratio of 1 instructor to 3 students assures lots of personal attention.
- Our full service adventure resort offers onsite camping and lodging
Internationally known paddler, Chris Spelius, teaches a 2-day river running clinic on the Dryway where Chris shares the secrets he's learned in over 25 years of paddling around the world.
Participants in our Big Water River Run should have solid class III skills, a reliable class III roll and an aggressive attitude.
About Chris Spelius
Chris Spelius began his paddling career kayaking and guiding rafts on the Colorado River while attending the University of Utah in the mid 70's. He then moved east to the Nantahala Outdoor Center where he was a paddling instructor and trained for kayak competitions.
In addition to kayaking on the U.S. Olympic Team in the 1984 Olympics, Chris has won several national championships and was a medalist in the 1991 World Playboating Championships. He was the first kayaker to descend the Niagara Gorge, beneath Niagara Falls, and has various first descents in Chile.
Chris has been featured in Outside, Men's Journal, Discovery, TV's Extremists, Team Timex's PaddleQuest, and ABC's American Sportsman. He was selected as one of the legends in paddling and as one of the most notable paddlers of the century by Paddler magazine. He has taught paddling clinics around the world and has been featured in numerous paddling instruction videos: Retendo, Kayaker's Edge, etc. He hosted 'Kayaking 101' on cable TV and worked as a boat designer and consultant for Dagger Canoe Company.
Chris received a grant from the International Olympic Committee to help develop kayaking as an Olympic sport in Chile. Chris founded Expediciones Chile and now resides half of the year in Chile and the other 6 months in the USA with his wife and daughter. Chris is dedicated to protecting free flowing rivers and is active in international river conservation.
WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE
Goal of the clinic:
To provide an opportunity for class III paddlers to learn the skills of kayaking on big water rivers.
Who should take the clinic:
Kayakers who have solid class III skills, a reliable class III roll and an aggressive attitude and want to learn to improve their big water kayaking skills and their confidence on class III+ and IV water. Our minimum age for these clinics is 14.
What will be covered:
This clinic covers paddling aggressively and accurately on big water including the skills needed to cross powerful eddy lines, to ferry using the features of the river and to play and surf with confidence on class III-IV whitewater.
2006 DATES
September 16-17 (Sat-Sun)
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PRICE
$275.00
