Elkhorn Creek

Jay Thomas and and Spalding Hurst ran Elkhorn Creek after work on this Monday. The creek was at about 900cfs. The weather was beginning to cool off from the day, but it was still nice and good run. The paddling was pretty straight forward. Trying to finish before the sun set after putting on at 6 p.m. there wasn't much stopping for surfing, even though they both agreed the surfing wasn't very good at this level.

They finished at 8 p.m. taking just under two hours to run from the the Forks to the old take, shorter, take-out. They hope to get in more after work, weekday runs this year. Join them if you can make it out. 6 p.m. looks like the normal put-in time after driving to Frankfort.

Glenwood Whitewater Events

Glenwood Springs, Colorado has long been a rafting and kayaking destination and community, located at the confluence of the Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers. It is the site of the new Glenwood Whitewater Park, a standing wave feature built in the Colorado River at the Midland Avenue Bridge.

The Glenwood Whitewater Events committee is a group of community volunteers, whitewater enthusiasts, amateur and professional freestyle kayakers and others who have an interest in bringing competitive kayaking and spectator events to the park. Glenwood Whitewater Events has hosted a freestyle kayak competition in September 2008 and has recruited the US Team Trials freestyle kayaking event through the USA Freestyle Kayaking Association.

www.glenwoodwhitewaterevents.com

Ron Perrin Photography Exhibition

Photographer Ron Perrin is having a double exhibition this friday, March 20th. The Java Joint exhibition is 20 random photographs from all over. The ...At Mary's exhibition, is a small body of Kentucky equine photographs. Again, both openings will take place this Friday on North third street (main street) in downtown Bardstown. Both venues are within easy walking distance of one another. Weather permitting, this should be a nice turnout and fun event.

Directions:
Java Joint
126 N 3rd St
Bardstown, KY 40004
(502) 350-0883

At Mary's
116 N 3rd St
Bardstown, KY 40004
(502) 350-9009

French Broad River Festival

Mark your calendars for this Bardstown Boaters club outing to the French Broad River Festival. Trip planning in the forum.

Tom Lamont

Tom Lamont was a volunteer with the Bardstown Boaters at the annual Paddle Pickup. He died Monday, March 9, 2009, in Bullitt County. Tom will be missed.

Thomas F. Lamont, 58, Boston, was a native of Chicago and a material handler for Publisher’s Printing Company, Shepherdsville. He was a member of St. Monica Catholic Church, Bardstown, a scoutmaster for several Boy Scout of America troops including Troop no. 617 in Boston. He was a member of the Boston Fire Board.

Survivors include his wife, the former Peggy K. Pierce; three sons, Michael Lamont, Boston, Mass., Daniel Lamont, St. Paul, Minn., and Russell Lamont, Blair, W.Va.

The funeral was 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Clare Catholic Church, Colesburg, with burial in St. Clare Cemetery, Colesburg. The Rev. Mike Tobin officiated.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Boy scouts of America.

Greetings Bourbon Chasers!

Details are coming together for the 2009 Bourbon Chase. Your planning committee is working hard to make this a great experience for your team. Their goal is for every participant to think “Wow! We have to do this next year!” If you have a great idea, share it with us. You’re going to have a blast and have some great stories to share too!

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The Bourbon Chase is a massive undertaking and we are looking for some friendly volunteers to help in a thousand different ways. We’ll need help on the various work groups, at the 35 exchange zones along the 200 mile course, starting line, finish line and every point between. Email us at patrick@bourbonchase.com

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Future Bardstown Whitewater Park at 400cfs

Here is a real-time picture from the Beech Fork in Bardstown, Ky at 400cfs, a projected, optimum level for the future play-wave.

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Overturned kayaker feared dead

From: The State Journal

Frankfort Emergency Management continued to comb the river Wednesday to recover the body of a kayaker who a witness says overturned in the Kentucky River near the Singing Bridge.

Battalion Chief Dan Shouse said officials won't release the man's name until family members can be notified, and it could be days before a body is found.

Officers with Kentucky Fish and Wildlife and Frankfort Emergency Management will drag the river Wednesday until it gets too dark to search, Shouse said.

Four kayakers - three males and one female - set out at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and after stopping for lunch at Rick's White Light, decided to boat a little longer, Shouse said.

Three kayakers continued on, without realizing the fourth wasn't behind them, Shouse said.

At 1:34 p.m., a female passenger in a car that was driving over the Singing Bridge called 911 to say she'd seen a man overturned in a kayak and trying to right himself.

Rescue workers found the kayak, and the man's car was still parked nearby, Shouse said. Eight divers took shifts searching in the 50-degree water, but there was little visibility and they couldn't locate the man.

Shouse said there was a strong current in the river Wednesday, but it would be speculation to say that's why the man overturned.

It is unclear how the kayakers knew each other, but Shouse said they might have been acquaintances.