Because August has had so many things going on – here’s a REMINDER
1. THIS Weekend – August 16,17 AWC Clinics and Potluck at TJB Pavilion
2. NEXT WEEK – August 19, 20 The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko the rest of the story – Part I, Part II
Don’t forget your $3 for parking and your own sack lunch – enjoy the link below and you won’t want to miss it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWAZgqRs0ZA
3. NEW: Thursday, September 4th - Gila Rising – A Special Presentation by Michael Berman – see below
This will be in lieu of our regular 2nd Tuesday meeting
North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center 7521 Carmel NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113
(approximately off Wyoming just north of Paseo Del Norte east of I25)
More details below! Thanks!
THANKS to Travis, Tim and Tom for their Pecos River presentation – took a lot to get 3 peoples schedules to mesh – fun and informative – Great job!
We also appreciated Norm Gaume’s update on the Gila and he is working on getting you specific details for HOW YOU CAN help NOW: fyi there are a lot of folks helping to make things come together for a STRONG stand on this matter, including you and your AWC Board. Stay Tuned!
**Please note TIME and LOCATION for each event in August & September!!!
This Weekend!!! – August 16th and 17th, 2014: AWC Summer Instructional Clinics on the State Park section of the Rio Grande and potluck dinner/party Saturday night at the Taos Junction Bridge pavilion (TJB Pavilion). Check the CLINICS page for additional details. www.adobewhitewater.org
NEXT Week!! August 19th and 20th, 2014: Special Two-Night Presentation – author Kevin Fedarko Returns by popular demand to tell the whole story of The Emerald Mile!
Sponsored by Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center and Adobe Whitewater Club.
Kevin is back to tell the rest of the story, complete with a dory (from Davito & Yvonne Hammack) and music from the river by Mike Hill and The Red Light Ramblers playing on the 19th.
Location: The Rio Grande Nature Center Education facility
2901 Candelaria NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107, 505-344-7240
Each night – 5:30 to 6:30 Music, Dory, Book Sales and Snacks with YOUR sack “lunch”.
6:30 – 9:00pm Kevin Fedarko Presentation followed by book sales, book signing, cleanup
Tuesday August 19th – Part I 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.
Wednesday August 20th – Part II continuation of the Emerald Mile story, 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.
Kevin Fedarko’s recently published article “A Cathedral Under Siege” on the front page of the New York Times’ Sunday Review, reminds us that Grand Canyon is “precariously vulnerable” to developments that “would desecrate one of the country’s most beloved wilderness shrines.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/two-development-projects-threaten-the-grand-canyon.html?ref=opinion
> Dory on display and river Music
> Watermelon, snacks and lemonade
> BYOD – bring your own sack lunch/dinner to eat at tables outside under shade.
> Books will be available and can be signed
*This event is at the Rio Grande Nature Center with author Kevin Fedarko in their newest education facility (holds up to 200 guests) (The Park open from 5-10pm for this event!)
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ALSO: Coming THURSDAY, September 4, 2014
(instead of the normal 2nd Tuesday monthly meeting)
AWC - SPECIAL PRESENTATION
by Michael Berman on the Gila Rising.
6:00 pm
North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center
7521 Carmel NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113
(approximately off Wyoming just north of Paseo Del Norte east of I25)
Presentation with Michael Berman,
Each year I try and walk the Gila River as it passes through the Wilderness. Most years I hike from Grapevine where the west, east and middle forks come together above the 30-mile Gila River Canyon to Turkey Creek. I go just to get a sense of what the Gila looks like, how the river has changed, and how I have changed.
THANKS to Travis, Tim and Tom for their Pecos River presentation – took a lot to get 3 peoples schedules to mesh – fun and informative – Great job!
We also appreciated Norm Gaume’s update on the Gila and we are working on getting you specific details for HOW YOU CAN help NOW:
Gila Update: Call for AWC Action AGAINST the Gila Diversion Project.
Norm Gaume will update you on the ways you can support the Gila River. We are at the 11th hour of decisions. The article below will give you a lot of information and fill you in more on Norm’s presentation. More Specific Action Details to come soon!
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-9029-divert-conquer.html by Laura Paskus
August 12, 2014, 6:30 PM, The New Town House restaurant: August Monthly Meeting
Presentation: 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! Includes pictures, GoPro head cam footage, info re. put in, takeout, and hazards to be noted. They hope to bring friends from the Pecos community they met during the run. It doesn’t run often– see what it was like.