Good Monday morning everyone. Tomorrow, 4-20-10, will be the final day to submit your Golden Strokes. We repeat that tomorrow, April 20th, will be the last day to submit Golden Stroke photos or video for the Werner Paddles Golden Strokes of April contest. We’ll continue to post submissions this week and have online voting the last week of April and announce the winner on May, 3, 2010. Thanks to all the participants and now the goooooolllllddddddd. This is a good Monday post with lots of photo and video gold. We’ll start with a post from Matt Wilson from Kayak Telluride on an early season run of Pandora’s Box on The Animas in Colorado.

Grace,
New put-in,,, Don’t pull a Demshitz and get shot gun pulled on your ass. I’ll show the way for some beers ( Like 12 ). Getting stoked for the embudo

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“Paddling for Life”
Matt Wilson/Owner
www.kayaktelluride.com
www.rapidactionrescue.com

Classic Pando Gold

Javier getting Western on That Gold

Nate Klema dropping The Golden Member

The put in.

Sieve...no gold down there!

Ben Luck making the gold happen, Rectilian

Matthew Klema on a long rapid.

From Colorado we jump right into New York State.

Hey guys,

Harry Berking

Half the paddle twice the man...check out thecanoemovie.com

Golden Beaver

Shall we move to say…West by God Virginia? Yes we shall!

Sup LVM! Here’s a photo by Jake Ament of the me stroking into the bottom drop of Pillagers Plunder on Manns Creek, WV at 1 inch over spring break.

Justin Kleberg

Man o Manns Creek

Moving on….

Hey LVM,

Rodney Claiborne

Looks like you are learning something in your class...likey.

Another proud stroke of black and white gold.

Finally we have a sweet little video that in our opinion sums up what kayaking is all about. Enjoy this piece sent in by Matt Porter and remember tomorrow is the final day for submissions. peace LVM.

Hey LVM,

Paul Butler, a past contest contributor, sent us in this video of what his crew’s been doing this fall. We love contributions, so thanks a lot Paul.

In this episode of the Monday Morning Madhouse we get Rich Bowers on the phone to discuss the licensing of the Tallulah Gorge and the years of work American Whitewater put in to securing recreational flows on the river. We also discover who the first person to run Oceana was and find out what AW has in store for the future. Join American Whitewater.

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As most of ya’ll know, Tallulah season is upon us.  Its a beautifully deep gorge with some quality whitewater, plus on very sizable drop: Oceana.  Here is Will Lyons and Brian Burch attempting said drop in a shredder.  

Entering Oceana

Bracing for the hit

At this point, I think Will had fallen out and was being bull-dozed by the shredder down the rest of the drop

Will gives a premature fist pump before being slammed into the water by the shredder behind him

Will after being shut down on his celebratory fist pump

Now its time for the fist pump

Meat hucker extraordinaire Jon Shannon was also on hand to show everybody how it is done.

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