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** VPC POOL SESSIONS, Winter/Spring 2012 (next session: FEBRUARY 11)
** Upcoming Events and Trips...
** Skip Armstrong's Seasons series
** Maintaining the Lake Champlain Basin Stream Gage Program
** 'Kadoma' (a film by Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic)
** Class V Slalom
** Kayak Session Magazine - Best Short Film of 2011 Awards
** "Evaluating The State Of Vermont's Dams" (VPR, Vt Edition)

 
 
----< VPC POOL SESSIONS, Winter/Spring 2012 (next session: FEBRUARY 11) >----

Vermont Paddlers Club Pool Sessions
Winter/Spring 2012

December 26, 2011

The following is the final schedule for VPC's 2012 pool sessions at the UVM pool. You can start signing up now. The arrangements with UVM will be completed this week or next.

Attendees who are not current American Canoe Association (ACA) members are required to pay a $5 event fee at each session for insurance coverage. Those who have not previously been ACA members can purchase a 6-month membership to provide coverage for all the sessions. A one year membership can also be purchased:  $30/individual for VPC members, $40/individual otherwise. See the membership pages for the ACA and the VPC for additional information.

  • Pool session fee: $10 / session
  • ACA event fee (for non-members): $5 / session
  • ACA 6-month membership: $15
Day of Week Date Start End
January
Saturday 1/07/2012    
Saturday 1/14/2012    
Saturday 1/21/2012 6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Saturday 1/28/2012 6:00 pm 8:00 pm
February
Saturday 2/04/2012    
Saturday 2/11/2012 6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Saturday 2/18/2012    
Saturday 2/25/2012 6:00 pm 8:00 pm
March
Saturday 3/03/2012 6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Saturday 3/10/2012    
Saturday 3/17/2012 6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Saturday 3/24/2012 6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Saturday 3/31/2012    

Chris Weed

Upcoming Events and Trips:
DATE DAY PLANNED TRIP CONTACT PHONE EXPECT COMMENTS
Feb 11th Sat UVM Pool Session Chris Weed 802-264-3141 pool 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Feb 25th Sat UVM Pool Session Chris Weed 802-264-3141 pool 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Mar 3rd Sat UVM Pool Session Chris Weed 802-264-3141 pool 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Organizing VPC trips is a great way to put paddling first in your busy schedule and to meet others who share your love for the sport!
Events with an asterisk (*) ARE NOT VPC/ACA sanctioned events. They appear only as a convenience to paddlers looking for compatible paddling partners.
If not a VPC member you can still post your trip plans on the message board. For the complete list of upcoming events/trips see the VPC Events Calendar online.
Event fee of $5 applies to non-ACA members who participate in sanctioned club trips. For information on becoming a VPC/ACA member, click here.
More Announcements:
 
----< Skip Armstrong's Seasons series >----

See these three sweet little films on Skip Armstrong's website.

Armstrong is a principal at Forge Motion Pictures, and contributed to the film WildWater.
Chris

 
----< Maintaining the Lake Champlain Basin Stream Gage Program >----

See this online petition at Change.org.

Please support this effort! Over a dozen USGS gages on rivers in the Lake Champlain watershed have been under threat of shutdown for over a year.
Chris Weed

 
----< 'Kadoma' (a film by Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic) >----

The trailer is here. Ben and Chris talk about the film here.

Wikipedia has a brief profile of Hendrik Coetzee, with multiple references. Also see this short and moving filmed tribute.
Chris

 
----< Class V Slalom >----

A very cool video of two Kiwis training for the upcoming olympics by setting up their own course on local run. http://vimeo.com/35661461
Danny Siger

 
----< Kayak Session Magazine - Best Short Film of 2011 Awards >----

...posted on YouTube (28:23) by KayakSessionTV.

Everything about these is great—the whitewater, the videography, the soundtracks (with no voiceover, just music). The selections include Tomass Marnics' film of the Biluti River in Siberia, posted here some months ago, and a mind-blowing film from a trip on the Mistassini River in Quebec.
Chris Weed

 
----< "Evaluating The State Of Vermont's Dams" (VPR, Vt Edition) >----

See the segment here. One of the guests is Greg Hanlon of the Army Corps of Engineers, also well known to many Northeastern paddlers as the author of Steep Creeks of New England.

The discussion covers environmental impacts, dam safety and benefits during high water events, how water retention is managed, and the circumstances under which dam removal is advisable.

One caller described the benefits (during TS Irene) of the prior removal of a dam on Cox Brook, a tributary of the Dog River.
Chris

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