ADOBE WHITEWATER CLUB OF NEW MEXICO

Adobe Whitewater Club of New Mexico

AWC — now an ACA Paddle America Club

Goal: Foster local, regional and national cooperation for the betterment of paddling in America through a reciprocal membership arrangement between the AWC and the ACA.

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January Alb Chapter Meeting (Jan 10 at 6:30pm): River Running in the ANWR

Moving swiftly downriver we saw them - talk instantly ceased and paddling slowed to just enough to steer into the icy shore. They held their ground while our eight pairs of eyes fastened on hundreds of theirs. Our memory is of silence, but the air had to be roaring with intensely cold water rushing past the 'aufeis", thick clouds bounding up and down the high windy peaks and clattering stones under clicking hooves of caribou - lots and lots of caribou. This was the Kongakut River, a river that flows North through the Brooks Range to the Beaufort Sea on the eastern edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Please join Adobe Whitewater Club members Rip Harwood, Robert Southwick, Chuck Houston, Jim Brainard, Joann Allen and Christianne Hinks for a slide presentation of their summer 2005 trip through this spectacular area. They'll also show a film from the Alaska Wilderness League and will encourage discussion about the oil drilling issue. The meeting will be held on January 10, 2006 from 6:30 to 9:00 P.M. at Los Griegos Multi-media Center, second building west of 12th Street on Candelaria Boulevard NW in Albuquerque (east of Rio Grande Boulevard). For further information, please contact Howard Higgins at (505) 350-5217.

February Alb Chapter Meeting (Feb 14 at 7:00pm):

Valentine's Day is the day of love! And what better way to spend it than to join your President and Board in a presentation of the initiatives the Adobe Whitewater Club is pursuing? We welcome your participation and input into a review of the proposed Whitewater Park, and a discussion of the future direction and initiatives for this, our club. We want and need your help! The meeting will be held on February 14, 2006 from 7:00-9:00 P.M. at Los Griegos Multi-media Center, second building west of 12th Street on Candelaria Boulevard NW in Albuquerque (east of Rio Grande Boulevard). For further information, please contact Sara Traub at (505) 453-4748.

Meetings open to Adobe members and non-members alike.

Be sure not to miss future AWC programs or other programs from the Grand Canyon Association.

For ideas or offers for Albuquerque Chapter meeting programs call Howard Higgins,

Albuquerque Whitewater Park - We are putting together a committee of sorts to focus efforts on the potential Albuquerque Whitewater Park. If you would like to help out with that, please contact Sara Traub at or Marcel Bieg at . We would like to get enough people together to manage whatever needs arise, be it city council meetings, petitioning, etc. We're not quite sure what will be required yet, but the hope is that if we have enough people, it won't be overwhelming for anyone.