"Awa Ara" can be translated loosely to "Road of the River" in Maori. We all choose a path to travel in life; I have chosen one dominated largely by rivers. This is my story.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Home

I'm back in the states, finally. I got back in the end of July, and the rest of my summer was a whirlwind of seeing parents, family, and friends, and getting ready for school to start up. The past month has somehow been even crazier with school, etc. I have managed to get some paddling in, the NRG and Gauley in WV and the James in Richmond a couple of times. Here's a picture of the spectacular sunset we saw one evening in Richmond:


UVA is a little deficient in quantity of intermediate-advanced paddlers, so one of my goals for the year is to get a core group of people moving into class III stuff by the spring...i.e. I want more people to paddle with! So I've been leading / helping lead some beginner kayaking trips through Outdoors at UVA, my school's outdoors club.

We've had very little water this fall, except for one big rainy weekend when a hurricane came through, so hopefully as we move into October and the cooler months, the water will come and more stuff will start running well! Pray for rain...

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