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June 14 General Meeting Minutes
Trip Reports
Cecilia Gill: Labor Day on the Sabine River
Meeting Announcement!
July 12, 2006, Steve Daniel will present his Texas Whitewater DVD!
Steve Daniel: Texas Whitewater
The long-awaited (and now acclaimed) Texas Whitewater DVD will be presented by Steve Daniel at the next HCC General Meeting. Based on footage by Ken Wealty and sixteen other paddler/videographers, the film showcases 33 rivers and creeks in the state and features more than 50 Texas paddlers. Clips of classics such as Mexican Creek, the Blanco Narrows, Pedernales Falls, the Lower Guadalupe at high water, and Night Ops at San Marcos' Rio Vista complement segments on Austin favorites like Barton Creek and Dallas-Fort Worth runs such as the Clear Fork of the Trinity, and Denton, White Rock, and Rowlett Creeks. The soundtrack of the 35-minute video combines reggae, heavy metal, boogie woogie, industrial riffs, southern rock, and rhythm and blues to highlight scenes that will surprise a lot of paddlers. To see a 30-second trailer, go to http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/twwtrailer.wmv .
Here is part of Steve bio from http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/bio.html
Three years before I left Spring Hill College, something else happened that radically changed my life: the discovery of whitewater kayaking. In the years since then I have paddled raging Class V torrents, 25-foot waterfalls, and meandering streams throughout the U.S. (primarily in the Southeast and in Colorado) and Mexico. After years of exploring Texas streams, I pulled what I knew about runs, access, water levels, etc. together in Texas Whitewater (Texas A&M University Press, 1999) and spoke at canoe clubs, bookstores, and paddling shops around the state. The book sold more than 4000 copies (more than the total of all of my academic books together), and in 2004 I produced a second, expanded edition of the book. When I am not running rapids I am thinking about running rapids. My passion for whitewater kayaking and the way of life required to maintain it, however, do not have a philosophical significance.
Steve will have copies of the Texas Whitewater DVD and its companion book available for sale.
The meeting begins at 7 PM at Bayland Park, 6400 Bissonnet, in the community building. The park is located just west of Hillcroft on Bissonnet.
