Yes this is a little early to remind you: but in reality – IT IS AUGUST and we have lots going on to NOTE on your Calendar
Hope you are all taking advantage of the rivers running higher with all this RAIN!!!!
Membership not required – forward this to those you think might be interested!
Next Tuesday Aug 12 – our regular monthly meeting – The Pecos River probably running again with all the rain! 6:30 at New Townhouse Restaurant
Weekend of August 16 is Beginning Canoe and Kayak Clinic at Taos Junction Bridge on the Rio Grande
Details on the web page: Contact Dallas Hill on registration and more
Tuesday AND Wednesday August 19, 20 Kevin Fedarko returns to tell the rest of the story The Emerald Mile
Part I and Part II - starting at 5:30 each night (details below)
Davito & Yvonne Hammack will bring their dory for you to sit in and “FEEL THE RIDE”
Mike Hill and the Red Light Ramblers have agreed to play some tunes on Aug 19
Bring your own “sack lunch” and AWC will have watermelon, snacks and drinks
Location: at the Rio Grande Nature Center
$3 parking – don’t forget your $3 cash per vehicle
Please check YOUR AWC web page as the web team is working hard to make it better and keep things updated!
From the web page: www.adobewhitewater.org
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
August 12 - Pecos River Descent in Flood Stage: by Travis Burkhardt, Tim Scofield, and Tom Fort – There should be some energy and enthusiasm here as they substituted sleep for getting to the river while it was up! GoPro head cam footage, putin, takeout, hazards to be noted.
August 16-17 AWC Beginning Canoe and Kayak Clinic and Potluck
don’t forget this fun activity!!! See Clinics for more Information.
Contact Dallas Hill if you can help or want to participate.
August 19, 20 – 2014 Kevin Fedarko Returns w/ more on The Emerald Mile
Kevin returns for a 2nd time to present The Emerald Mile with 2 nights of riveting tales complete with a dory from our own Davito and Yvonne Hammack and some river music from Mike Hill and the Red Light Ramblers.
If you missed it the first time in January be sure to come now August 19 & 20th.
If you heard it the first time come again to enjoy the rest of the story – the enhanced version, with music and sit in a dory with your river friends. Many campfire stories are told more than once and never exactly the same! See you there!
Check out the dory, listen to a tune, while eating your own sack lunch – additional snack provided by Adobe Whitewater Club in the amazing setting of the Rio Grande Nature Center.
Located 2901 Candelaria NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107, 505-344-7240
RGNC is Open for this special event from 5-10 pm (schedule as follows)
5:00pm – 5:30 set up
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Enjoy the picnic tables and shade of the cottonwoods
Sack “Lunch” if you brought one! Watermelon, snacks, drinks
Check out the Dory and ask questions by Davito and Yvonne Hammack
Music from Mike Hill and the Red Light Ramblers,
Books available thru Bookworks – The Emerald Mile, paper back now available
Guestbook table for the AWC and Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center
6:30 – 7:00 pm Introductions and welcomes
Beth Dillingham Superintendant of the Rio Grande Nature Center
AWC welcome and introduction of Kevin Fedarko
7:00 Kevin Fedarko presents The Emerald Mile Part 1(August 19th) and 2 (August 20th)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWAZgqRs0ZA
Beneath the River of Shooting Stars: Kevin Fedarko presents The Emerald Mile
A Tale of Speed, Obsession, and Grace in the Grand Canyon
Part I – Tuesday evening, August 19, will chronicle the story of the runoff of 1983, the most ferocious flood in the modern history of the Grand Canyon, a surge so powerful that it threatened to take out the Glen Canyon Dam while simultaneously serving as a hydraulic catapult for a trio of intrepid oarsmen who were hoping to conduct a record-breaking speed run in a tiny wooden dory called the Emerald Mile.
Part II – Wednesday evening , August 20, will focus on a number of contentious conservation issues surrounding the canyon and the dam, and illustrate how the speed run of 1983 helps to illuminate a national treasure that is perhaps the most iconic, best loved, and least understood landscape feature North America.
$3 parking fee (each night) or parking is free w/ membership to Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center http://rgnc.org/ - go to membership to see benefits to include free parking. Not a bad price for a spectacular show!
Rio Grande Nature Center located: 2901 Candelaria NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107 (505)344-7240 The following organizations are responsible for this coming together:
· Friends of the RGNC at The Rio Grande Nature Center’s newest Education facility
· Adobe Whitewater Club of New Mexico
· Bookworks – get a book and get it signed by author, Kevin Fedarko
· Davito and Yvonne Hammack – The Rayes del Sol - their Dory
· Mike Hill and the Red Light Ramblers (Aug 19th) – bluegrass music for the river
Additional Details in Progress – Stayed tuned as they develop!! See you there!