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Whitewater Book Pick of the Year, 2006

December 28, 2006

National Outdoor Book Awards: Whitewater Book Pick of the Year, 2006

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. He introduced former president Jimmy Carter to kayaking. He helped with the stunt work for the film Deliverance. There’s a relaxing, down home feel to this book — and plenty of warmth.

Woodward spent a good portion of his life turning kids onto kayaking and he has some great stories to tell. One is a rollicking Colorado River adventure with a group of scouts and an old broken-down school bus. Included also among his reminiscences are adventures with his own children, and you’ll love their names: Cricket, David, Autumn, Forest, Rivers and Canyon. Summed up: it’s a big-hearted, doggone good book.

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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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