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A Life in the Rapids

October 15, 2007

Review in the Smoky Mountain News: Whitewater and outdoor enthusiasts can relive Woodward’s tales in his book, Wherever Waters Flow. The 71 year-old writes vividly about his many kayaking adventures on rivers such as the Chattooga in Georgia or the Noatak in Alaska…

Best Regional NonFiction, Bronze Medal, 2007

June 10, 2007

Awarded Best Regional NonFiction, Bronze Medal, 2007 by the 11th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards…

Whitewater Book Pick of the Year, 2006

December 28, 2006

Outdoor Literature: This year’s pick for a whitewater book is Doug Woodward’s Wherever Waters Flow.  For many years, Woodward has been an important influence in southeastern boating…

a captivating whitewater autobiography

December 14, 2006

Review in in The Eddy Line, the Newsletter of the Georgia Canoeing Association: a captivating whitewater autobiography as well as an historical account of the vernal days of paddling in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the USA…

a lifetime of wild adventures

September 12, 2006

From TechTopics, Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine: a lifetime of wild adventures that found him battered against rocks and sucked under water — in other words, up a river without a paddle. Woodward has lived to tell the tales in his book…

a must-read for anyone interested in the history of whitewater boating

June 7, 2006

From the Chattooga Quarterly, Chattooga Conservancy magazine: Doug’s book is a lively and engaging account of his lifelong travels to explore wild rivers, from Alaska to our own Chattooga River…

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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

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…

A Storm to Remember, article by Doug Woodward in Canoe&Kayak mag, spread image.

A Storm To Remember

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…

Circling Back

In 1970, Doug Woodward paddled his homemade kayak through the Grand Canyon. Though he continued to run rivers over the next four decades, he never expected to feel the whitewater of the Colorado again. His son Forest would change that…

… More Articles…

Recent Musings

The Important Places

The cover of an NRS catalog

The Deliverance Question

… More Musings…

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