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A special thanks to Renee Clark, Ross Jacobs, Mark Vincent, Lance Jones and Tony D' Diliberto for taking alot of these pictures I posted here....THANK YOU!..THANK YOU...THANK YOU

Okay back at the ranch........

Olympic National Park...this past fall

I'm a  has been creekin' hack that is lucky enough to have over 20 first descents and over 10 rapid completions. I have been featured in 8 kayaking videos and have produced two videos and I still love to boat, and have been lucky to paddle in the company of great paddlers (past and present), who were kind enough to let me tag along.  My favorite run still to this day is Johnnies Creek in Alabama.

My favorite runs in my paddling career are the following

Lower Cullasaja, Henderson, the "Real" Brush Creek, Little Possum, Miller, Johnnies Creek, and later stages of my career the East Fork of the Lewis, there are many other others but for some reason these just stick out for the moment.

Old School

 First Descent Little Possum Creek-Early 90's

I started paddling when I was 7 on the Buffalo River in Arkansas. Then in 1988 I bought my first boat from a yuppie , it was a Mirage and it was a hot boat for the time. I started slowly progressing , and then in 1991 Terry Smith invited me on a First Descent on Henderson Creek, and I really liked the idea of bagging a First D'. Later that year Psycho lead me down the Narrows of the Green, and I was hooked on Creeking. That winter Risa and Woody Callaway (they were married then) ,and Doug Wellman took me down the Bear at 2 ft, it was like swallowing the pill in the Matrix, although scared $%&*less, I was hooked, and started looking for obscure runs and really got into exploring and pioneering runs......

So later more became more, and we started taking a video camera, and with the footage, we gave it Mike "Louie" Lewis, and he entered to the Blue Grass Festival, and won, later with more footage, He made the videos "Uh Oh's and Oh Shit's" and "One Winter and a Few Falls" ;Falls was a narrated video, and a little on the dry side, so Jim Little and I took the footage and added music to it and we named it "Bootleg Louie', unknowst to Louie, and made bootlegs with 2 VCRs ;every time we turned around someone wanted another copy , so we had MORE footage and hence "Falling Off Walden's Ridge " was born, it horrible grainy footage, but it showed a lot of new runs, and got the attention of Dagger. The Late Frankie Hubbard pushed us on them and it was a blessing I was cracking boats every 6 weeks, and we were pushing the limits on the gear (and bodies).

So later, we get on board with Dagger in the Harriman days, and Jim Little and I are on their boat program, Brian Collins becomes a partner in crime and we start filming,  one year later "Steep Creekin' is born .(Every weekend and lot of weekdays ended up 20 mins. of footage!) After conflicts with Dagger over boat designs and not wanting on Team D because we wouldn't rodeo. I leave and go to Chan at Wavesport, and it was a happy marriage, gear was easy to get, custom lay-ups were the norm and accessory gear was given out like water. I later was on some of the Team DoubleYouEss videos in the mid 90's........then the kids came.....

NOW

East Fork of the Lewis -Present

Then the kids came, and I got out of boating, and took off about 7 +/- years, Then the big D' hit, and now I'm boating again!

I feel very lucky to get back into boating now that I 'm back it's more fun, and doesn't feel like a full time job. I also feel lucky that the hard worked we did in the past is thought of and was flattered when Ben at SteepCreeks wanted to interview me.      To see the interview   Click Here-Steep Creek Interview

Also it was it's nice being remembered on all the first descents we went after to see some of them on a list .....    Click Here-First Descents

One of my recent fond memories is of the paddling trip that Lance Jones and I took in the Northwest, here is a link (you may have to copy and paste into your toolbar)

http://webpages.charter.net/lanceajones/Western/NW(1).htm    or click here

Photo by: Fire Ant Photography

The Big One Cheoah River North Carolina

Cheoha River NC.

To see more pictures about the stuff I like to do you can go to my SmugMug site and see my photo gallery to go there  grab your mouse and Click Here-SmugMug Photos

Also I have a homepage, and I'm also a VW nut, and as you know already also into whitewater...... to go my homepage  just  Click Here-my HomePage.

And finally I weld kayaks on the side to keep me out of trouble when the Creeks are dry, to know more about kayak welding Click Here-Plastic Welding and learn more.