It is Friday and I know everyone is ready to ride this weekend, so with no further delay…gold.

Hey guys,

for more info on the New Haven Ledges, as well as a short story featured in AW by yours truly.

Toasty Gold

New Haaaavvvvveeeennnn

Rad, What's he looking at, beautiful, odd, golden for sure

Darin McQuoid

As requested, early season Dinkey Creek golden strokes.

Oh yes very Gold Darin, Gold with Envy we are!

Drew Au

Golden Kid Cool

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh golden

Drive a spike in that gold

Gold for Breakfast Anyone? Taylor Feargoldenton

This in from Alex.

Alex Knupp Birthday Gold at Tanners Boof on the Tallulah!
First release of 2010.
Photo taken by Chase Fredrick.

Later
Alex Knupp

Daboofdengold

Hey Guys,

Kelsey Thompson

Great shot Kelsey!, that is some high power golden flurry of goodness. Good weekend to everyone!

That paddle has golden strungth!

We’ll start off with a video of super fun, super fly, super when it’s not dry, Overflow Creek Georgia.

Hey LVM Fam! I couldn’t remember if there’s been a Golden Hand Paddle Stroke on there yet (I’m sure Keith’s got ‘em stacked up waitin’ to unleash ‘em though) and was lookin’ over some footage. This was from yet another fun filled day on the Georgia gem Overflow Creek. Here’s a little background to set up the clip. I’m usually a hand paddler when it comes to Class V, because my roll with a stick can be flakey under pressure. Well on this day I talked my buddy Greg Watson into droppin’ his paddle and hand paddlin’ with me. I ran Marginal Monster way better than I did my first time (melted down-super deep), but did not strike Gold like Watson did. Here ya go!

Here is a fine set of photos sent in by the ever talented Rob Hurst.

Heres a shot of Jeff Snyder getting golden on his feet off of Ohiopyle Falls during the Over the Falls Festival.

Rob

The elusive stand-up golden stroke.

Mike Moore at Iron Ring being innovative

Evan Ross getting very golden on the Embudo

The extremely elusive triple stroke. First boater is Raphael Theibaut (sp?) and the last boater i think is Shane Benedict. Not sure of the middle boater. This is from the 06 Green Race. Back when there were only two greenboats in existence.

Hola LVM,

Hello, I hope this email finds you all well. I have dug through this season’s strokes and I believe there may be one or two worthy of the nomination for GOLDEN STROKE (angels singing AHHHHHHHHHHH).

Sunshines in the Gold of the moment

These shots were taken by Mike Thurber of Zak Sears. The first is on the Rio Fuy in Chile during some 2009 Christmas day golden stroking, and the second is on the infamous Rio Palguin. Worthy of gold for sure.

~ Zak

oh yeah

Here we are almost halfway through the month and the photos and video are still coming in. Boom right back into the gold from Michael Toth.

LVM,

photo by McSwain

Spray the butter!

I’m still on the couch after a shoulder dislocation, so with no kayaking in sight for the moment, this seemed like the next best thing.

Nick Ianniello

goldy licious!

golden gooy licious

googoldenlosh

Hey Guys! I want to submit a few shots into the contest. The first shot is of me running the bottom slide of Toxaway Falls this spring and was taken by Jae Ellison. The second two were taken by Caylin Edwards on the Rio Alseseca back in February on a Girls at Play trip. They were taken the same day Will, Dooley, Eli and the boys at Esprit were shooting footage for the Canoe Movie. Good times, good times!

p.s. Looking forward to the Knoxville Premier tonight.

Toxy Gold

Mexican Gold

Mo Mexi'

And our final entry for the day is from the always golden Charlie Mix.

here’s some more golden stroking. I need that paddle, I’m using an old whittled down werner that held together with duct tape!!!

thanks,
Charlie Mix

Yell Goooooolllllddddd!

Oh yeah this is a sick photo

geeeoheldee

OK we are working our way through the month and it has been oh so golden. Let’s get into it!

Here are some golden squirt boat strokes. After all a good mystery move is golden. These shots are from cowbell, the cartecay, and nantahala rivers.

roy srymanske

Our first 'squirt' golden stroke entry

going down

taking a big breath...

not sure what is going on here

My brother, Josh Dalton, took this one during a road trip as we passed through Idaho. The falls is Lower Mesa just outside of Yellowstone.

-Matt Dalton

Golden Stroking and wishing we could kayak in Yellowstone!

Here is a little Spring Break action from Max Posner and company. This one includes a video which is better than most LVM’s! Great entry Max and more power to you and the fist pump.

Hey LVM,
Writing to submit some golden strokes from spring break a few weeks back. In order they are; me on the 2nd drop at Triple Falls (photo by Eric Mahan) me on the 3rd drop at Triple Falls (photo by Eric Mahan) Hunter Davis boofing on the Lower Rocky Broad (photo by Eric Mahan) Mark Taylor freewheeling Stateline (photo by me) and Eric Mahan boofing Stateline (photo by me) To see it all in moving picture format here is a link to the video: http://www.vimeo.com/10707387

Max Posner

Gold at Dupont

bouncing down the gold

a beauty boof

Wheeling Stateline

da boof

Traveling over spring break for 8 days of paddling in Nelson County, VA, western NC and Beckley, WV.

There are some great photos coming in one after another! Let’s get straight into it. Here are a few really good ones taken by Chris Gallaway, be sure to check out Chris’s movie about the legendary Green Race here.
Hello LVM,
Hope you guys are enjoying these warm spring days and getting out on the water. I thought I’d send in a few submissions for your Golden Stroke contest. In the first photo we have Matthew Duke executing a beautiful boof during a low-water summer day on the West Fork of the Pigeon. Next up is Mike Patterson dropping into Cave Falls on the Linville last fall. And last, we have the great Chris Gragtmans running Soc’em Dog (with a considerable audience) shortly after he won the nonexistent Chattooga Race this past January. Enjoy, and thanks for putting on the contest,

–
Horizonline Pictures
www.horizonlinepictures.com

Matt g-stroking!

Mike...Linville...Gold

Chris G-stroking...Chattooga River

Coming in from The North Fork of The Blackwater.

Hey LVM!
Here’s a pic of my brother, Tim Smith, Golden Strokin’ on the North Fork of the Blackwater, WV on my birthday weekend in March! With the heavy snow pack up in the Canaan Valley, we had good flows on the North Fork all weekend long!

Topher Smith

Very Nice Topher

Some California for all the loyal LVM viewers.

Hey LVM’ers,
Here is a pic from the hospital rock run on the middle fork of the kaweah from a recent spring break trip out to cali, thanks Tom Michael Janney, enjoy.
-Tom

Kaweeeeaaaaaahhhhh!

And finally…

So I’m out of class and on my way to paddle our local run and I get a call from my friend…”Did you know you’re on the front page of LVM? DUDE, you won TEVAS!”

ps. I’m greedy and just snapped my paddle. Here is my shot at capturing a golden stroke. If I’m on a roll why not?

Thanks for the entry, but this one may not win the paddle:)

Danny you are a professional in our eyes and keep it hairy side up from now on. Check back later today as we launch another Daily Digger.

Don’t forget there is a Werner Premium Grade Paddle on the line here.

Up first we have…
Hey Guys,

P.S. Should you be so gracious as to choose our photo as the winner, Nate deserves the paddle (Unless of course you want to give out two! ; )

Gold from Vermont

Here we have a ‘first timer’ at Stateline Falls…
Alex Knupp dropping Stateline Falls on the Watauga for his first time
The photo was taken by Matt Dalton.

Alex Knupp

Stateline

Another entry by the ever sexy??? Wesley Bradley
Hey John, Will & the rest of the LVM Crew!

Please enter this photo of my wife (Jennifer Bradley) & me into the hunt for the new Werner Premium Paddle! The shot was taken by Steve Moore at Alien Boof on the Upper Ocoee this past summer (7/25/09). The shot really illustrates a great tandem “Golden Stroke” in our custom black & white Dynamic Duo wedding boat!! Thanks & have a nice day!

Duo Boof

And the final pictures for today, a pair from the tea colored waters of Minnesota and Michigan sent in by Ryan Zimny. Lots of great shots here and stay tuned tomorrow because there is more gold on the way.

Rada Race action!

Saving the best for last...cmon this shot is oozing gold!

Chinese Feet action here.

LVM
Heres a little chinese feet possible double golden stroke taken of me by joel bostic, and I also wanted to check that the yellow creek footage made it your way.
Paul

Paul,
The Yellow Creek footage is here and looks great! We are working on #33 right now and it will be a nice addition. Keep it Golden, Chinese Feet made the cut.
John

This just in from Darin McQuoid:

Baby it’s snowing like a mofo out here in Cali so get ready for this spring: Ryan Knight, Fantasy Falls day two.

Ryan Knight - Fantasy Falls