Team Necky May Memo...we got the memo

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Music on this video is by Clutch, from their latest album “Blast Tyrant” www.Pro-Rock.com

Well, May has been pretty good to us so far, we’ve been able to paddle quite a bit, and the coolest part is that we’ve been able to paddle together as a team a lot as well. It’s often hard for us to coordinate our schedules between working, school, and our lives as secret agents.

We’d like to just say thanks to everyone who’s been viewing the blog and the new Team Necky site. We’ve been blown away by the response, and we hope you’ll keep coming back.

Here we have several photos shot by Spencer, Chris, and Myself, and a video of highlights put together by Spencer. Spencer does a majority of the editing of the videos on this site, through his company Effort, Inc…and if he didn’t edit a particular clip, odds are it was still shot with his video camera.

In the video you will see footy from:

The Green: Chris and Spe hit the Green several times this month, it’s breathtaking this time of year. Since there is so much interest in the Green these days we labeled each of the rapids on this part of the video, in case anyone who hasn’t been there wants to know more.

Triple Drop: click here to look at my Triple Drop photo gallery and here to look at Spence’s Triple Drop photo gallery.
Here is Chris G skying off of the first drop.

The three of us went to Triple Falls on the Little River in Dupont Forest, NC. Triple Falls is a really cool set of....you guessed it….three drops. The top drop is two tiered. The second drop is pretty much vertical, with a little kicker thing near the bottom that often launches you out into the air. I suppose the second drop is about 35 feet, with a clean landing spot. We didn’t run the third drop, as it was a little low for it, but its good to go as well. This was my first time running these fun drops, which are upstream of the infamous Hooker Falls. American Whitewater recently helped make running these waterfalls legal, as it was against the law just over a year ago.

For those of you who are skeptical about the Shock Stop system in the Crux, I put it to the test on this day. I pitoned really hard off the first part of drop 1. Although it was a hard hit, I really think the springs in the bulkhead worked, as neither I, nor my boat suffered any noticeable damage.

We must of run the second drop 7 or 8 times each, including two blue-angel runs (during the second of which Chris G almost got a Crux in the butt).

Saluda River: Click here to look at Spence’s Saluda photo gallery.
Here are Chris G and Joey before running the old mill on river right at high water.

And here they are running it.

The Saluda, in Columbia SC, has been running quite a bit this spring. Chris G and myself paddle here quite a bit, and at various water levels some really fun features form. Over the past couple of weeks we’ve gotten Spencer interested in the many small playspots that the Slauda has to offer, and he’s been tearing them all to pieces several times. Its an often overlooked river, it’s in my back yard and it’s a great place to play after work. The clips in the video are from a 10-11,000cfs release, and features the infamous Chicken Wing.

Some extras:
Click here to view a few photos from our last session at Secret Spot on the Nolichucky.

Also here is our new Crux commercial that will be featured in the next LVM click here to download.

Music on Crux commercial is by Despistado www.JadeTree.com

Well I think that’s it. Thanks again for all the hits, and please come back and check out more photos and video soon. Chris G and Spencer are heading to Eastern Canada this week so they should be posting some reports from their trip around Montreal and the Ottawa area.

jHo