Mark and Matthew enjoying a day on the Green River
April 30 - May 1, 2010 OWLS and Paddlers4Christ joined up for a weekend of worship, paddling, and camping both on and near North Carolina's famous (and beautiful) Green River. I had quite a few nice photos to share with everyone but , unfortunately, my camera was lost in the river about half way through our paddle on Saturday.
Some of those arriving early on Friday had a chance to run Section 9 of the French Broad before joining the rest of us arriving at Lutheridge, our basecamp for the weekend. After a somewhat damp evening, Saturday morning we divided into two groups with about half paddling the Upper Green and the rest being led down the Lower Green by Yours Truly. I was joined by the father and son team of Mark and Matthew Woolridge, Vicki and Kimberly Simms (mother and daughter), and Matt Goodson. The river was at a perfect level and the weather couldn't have been better either. We stopped for a relaxing lunch on the sandy river bank just beyond the bridge and discussed how blessed we were . Matt celebrated his first experience paddling moving water with a dry hair day and, although Mark and Matthew had more than a few swims, at the end of the day, Matthew said he was ready to go again. Vicki found out just how easy it is to turn a Probe 11; just couldn't figure out how to make it track straight, and finished the day promising to stick with her longer Mohawk Solo 14.
Back at camp, I treated everyone to an apple cobbler/dump cake prepared over the fire in a very experienced dutch oven.
Our Sunday morning worship, led by Wayne "Wayner" Dickert, was taken from some of his seminary class notes and demonstrated the value of a Gordon-Conwell education. Afterward, we parted ways with some heading back out to do another run of FB9.
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