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    • 02/28/2020 at 12:27 pm #16264
      Dennis Jones
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      I saw this for sale on ebay, the dam has changed a little! Carla rock is long gone.

       

      https://www.ebay.com/itm/SS8-uu-Amateur-35mm-Slide-Photo-Men-in-Canoe-Riding-Rapids-1986/264570533238?hash=item3d99a1f576:g:AlAAAOSwE4hd-Ylj

    • 02/28/2020 at 2:15 pm #16267
      Mike Warren
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      Dennis,

      That’s Ray McLain (R.I.P.) of Wisconsin in the stern.  It appears he and his partner are 50-ing the gate, and I’m pretty sure Ray would like this picture to be gone.  Ray was a good guy, very competitive, and a mentor to me and a lot of other folks.  I paddled with him in the 80’s and the only time I ever saw him swim was with me in a C-2.  It’s one of my proudest paddling moments!  Thanks for posting this.

      Mike

    • 02/28/2020 at 6:35 pm #16268
      Dennis Jones
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      Hi Mike, I thought that was Ray, I didn’t know he had passed. I don’t recognize the bow paddler. The dam has really took a beating.

    • 03/01/2020 at 8:38 am #16294
      jw
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      Pete Shaw suggested that the bow paddler might be Ray’s OC-2Mixed partner, who was Barb Oakley in 1986 (when the slide was dated).  The 1986 results showed they finished first in OC-2Mixed.

      Greg Brown thought the paddler in the yellow Dancer might be Dave Buhs.  We think Stan Stoy is in the background by the dam, in the gold helmet.

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