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Personal Writing: The Current

We were practicing methods of paddling Ruth Elvedt discusses in her
book, Canoeing: A to Z. We did the side stroke, which pulls the canoe
sideways. We did the back stroke, which makes the canoe reverse course.
We also did the classic forward stroke to go forward. We became quite
proficient in the art of spinning the canoe around in circles from
combining the methods Ms. Elvedt discusses in her book. The numerous
people who were floating close by laughed at us and called us idiots
because of our unique practice of paddling.
We interviewed Rich's uncle, Earl Keys, who claims to have floated
The Current over a hundred times, prior to our departure for the river. He
had warned us ...

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side
of the bend.”
As we neared the end of a long straight away in the river, I
noticed the speed of the water was increasing exponentially. A look
farther down the river told me what I had been dreading this whole trip now
lay before us, and we were going into Wallace's Point from the wrong side
of the river! “Rich! Back-right stroke! Back-right stroke! Hurry!
Don't you see that we're going in the wrong way? BACK-RIGHT STROKE!” I
bellowed as a rush of excitement and worry hit me.
“Hey, take it easy man. We can do this. We'll just paddle like
crazy to the other side. Got it?” was Rich's unusually calm reply to my
maniacal outburst. So we both put our backs into it and made it to the
other side of the river; however, before we knew it we were moving faster
than most people can run, and steering the canoe was becoming very
difficult. We transversed the maze of root wads without incident, but a
couple of other canoeists who were near us when we were on the ...

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Added: 1/3/2007 07:51:08 AM
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