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A Storm To Remember

January 1, 2016

Article by Doug Woodward
written for the Winter, 2016 issue of Canoe and Kayak Magazine.

A Storm to Remember, article by Doug Woodward in Canoe&Kayak mag, spread image.A September canoe trip on the Bowron Lakes of British Columbia. Four adults, a two-year old and… well, it wouldn’t be as interesting a story if everything had gone as planned and the rain and wind hadn’t held a big party on the lakes that week.

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Canoe & Kayak magazine cover, Winter 2016

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Events

Nov 9, 2019: Paddler’s Night at the Museum

Slideshow by Doug about paddling in the ’60s and ’70s, with special features on Deliverance, Jimmy Carter, Payson and Aurelia Kennedy, and the short documentary The Important Places.

Recent Published Articles

Jimmy Carter & Claude Terry on the first open canoe run of Bull Sluice rapid, Section III of the Chattooga River, August 1972. Photo by Doug Woodward

A remembrance of Jimmy Carter, on Blue Ridge Public Radio

Doug interviewed on public radio about Carter’s time paddling A remembrance of Jimmy Carter and his time on the Chattooga river, audio and written interview by Lilly Knoepp. Note that the written story from 2024, copied below, and the interview from 2019 contain slightly different content, both are interesting. President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at […]

The Deliverance film crew gets ready to capture stunt work on Five Falls, a rapid on the Chattooga River. Photo by Doug Woodward

Revisiting Deliverance, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine article

Article by Doug Woodward written for the September 2022 issue of Blue Ridge Outdoors Revisiting Deliverance, and the Real-life Canoe Trip that Spawned the Famous Story Fifty years ago, a film appeared on the big screen which caused audiences to squirm with angst, due to a terrifying sequence of terrifying events in the backwoods of […]

cover of American Whitewater magazine, Sept/Oct 2019

The Whitewater Legacy of Jimmy Carter, in American Whitewater

For those of us whose spirits would wither away without wild country in which to renew ourselves, Jimmy Carter’s greatest legacy is to be found in the rivers that remain free-flowing and the great swaths of protected Alaska land that allow the caribou and grizzly to roam…

Born to Paddle article with 8-year old Canyon at the raft oars

Born to Paddle

Several families relate the joys of connecting to Nature via paddling. Canyon and Forest Woodward’s earliest days of paddling are recounted…

… More Articles…

Recent Musings

raft overturning in Chattooga River, dumping Jimmy Carter and all passengers

Remembering Rosalynn Carter, on the Chattooga

The Important Places

The cover of an NRS catalog

The Deliverance Question

… More Musings…

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