Highland Profiles is a series that aims to highlight West Virginia’s exemplary outdoor adventurers, business owners, and community innovators. If you’ve got som... Read More...
A wall of water appears out of nowhere and suddenly towers over a 16-foot-long raft filled with eight flabbergasted paddlers. The raft surges into the trough at... Read More...
Highland Profiles is a series that aims to highlight West Virginia’s exemplary outdoor adventurers, business owners, and community innovators. If you’ve got som... Read More...
The first time Margaret Cadmus competed in a rafting race she hated it—for the first 15 minutes. But by the end of the hour-long race, she was hooked on the adr... Read More...
They’ve been the first ones on the river as the fog rolled in and the last ones off as the water rose to flood stages. They’ve coached clients through the first... Read More...
I heard the names of the infamous rapids of the Gauley River long before I ever dipped a paddle into the churning currents below the Summersville Dam. Before I ... Read More...
Raft guides are a hard group to pin down. Transient souls, they spend most of their day out of cell service, and most of their year living off the grid in tents... Read More...
From rapids that will make you glad to be alive to see another bend in the river to calm waters and eagles swooping overhead, the New River Gorge and its neighb... Read More...
Among the throngs of visitors who have explored the trails and vistas of Blackwater Falls State Park, only a select few have ventured below the base of West Vir... Read More...
Beginning in spring and running through fall, West Virginia is the Disneyland of whitewater. During October, the Gauley is like the 405 in LA. Rafts up to 16-fe... Read More...
On the third weekend of September paddlers from across the globe descend into Summersville for Gauley Fest, one of America’s largest whitewater celebrations.
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