Photos (and other media) from 2011 New England Whitewater Triple Crown Championships

http://artandwater.smugmug.com/Whitewater

The above link takes you to a page with all of the photos taken over the weekend before they are edited, cropped, color corrected, and otherwise manipulated.

Each day's gallery should be in event order: Wildwater, Slalom, then Freestyle.





Fox News at the event

Local Simsbury Coverage of the event

Haley Mills shares here experience as a competitor at the Triple Crown

Hartford Courant photos from Triple Crown

Women's competition on YouTube from Wavehopper


Top Results:

Women
1. Emily Jackson ($1,000 award)
2. Katrina Van Wijk ($500 award)
3. Jessie Stone ($250 award)

Men
1. Nick Troutman ($1,000 award)
2. Dan Jackson ($500 award)
3. Bryan Kirk ($250 award)

Top C-1
Jordan Poffenberger ($500 award)

click this link to go to the official event website

Do you have a boat for T'ville?

TvilleTripleCrown.com



Ideally, you'd have a composite slalom boat, a composite wildwater boat, and (these days) a composite freestyle boat.

In reality, most people will have all plastic.
Ok to race your plastic freestyle boat, plastic slalom boat, and plastic freestyle boat.

Since there is so much focus on the overall scoring, if you choose to be in all three events, it's ok to break out the old school boat for the wildwater section, and perhaps even the slalom section.
You can even use your creek boat for these.
I'm sure that you can get a few spins and an ender in an old long boat or your creek boat.

So, don't worry about having the perfect boat. Just come on out and participate. You never know.
After taking part in the Triple Crown, you might just look back on it as the discovery of some new aspect of whitewater that you never before realized was fun.

(boats in the top photo, from left to right: SL350, Reaction, Wavehopper, MadBoy, Fish)



TvilleTripleCrown.com

New Year's Eve party at T'ville

A large part of the fun at T'ville is just hanging out with friends.
at levels like this there are many conversations going on in the eddy as people wait for their turn to play
and play they will...
of course the main focus is the hole, and everyone cheering each other on
it's just a good place to hang out for an afternoon
Adam Bixby was back in the area to visit family and friends
you'd never guess that he's been mostly creek boating for the past year



how's BOB doing?!?

this guy is proving what some of us have always known: you don't need a small boat to have fun. you just need to get in the water and play
Jeff looks like he's feeling pretty good
Selby likes to throw left so it's hard to get a good photo of him. but at least he's having a good time.