Don Dufaux

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    • #15481
      Don Dufaux
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      I am also having a very hard time of it, very shocked and saddened by the news.

      I have many, many, many (pillows?) memories of paddling and travelling with my buddy Freddie over the years.  From the Saint to the Wolf to the Ocoee and Tellico and beyond.  Our 2003 trip to the DR, with Freddie as tour guide, is one of the highlights of my life, I saw so many places and things that I would never have experienced on my own (and at least a couple that I wouldn’t have wanted to !?!).  I can’t begin to count the number of Southeast trips where Freddie kept everyone in stitches, on the river and off.  So many stories…  Really hard to put much into words right now…

      I guess we kind of lost touch over the last few years, but it was always good to know you were out there tearing up the Yaque del Norte.  Glad I at least got to talk to you a couple times in the last few months, but I wish we had gotten the chance to make one last “No Eddy” run down the Saint together, bottle of rum (or maybe a diet Dr. Zhivago?) waiting at the take-out.  Voy a extrañarte, hermano.  I’ll miss ya, buddy!

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      And here is a slightly less “busy” version of jw’s second link above…

      http://www.mvs-wc.usace.army.mil/realtime/precip/sf_cum.htm

      Exact same data, just displayed in cumulative rather than incremental format.

    • #15306
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      Intense lightning, 60 mph wind gusts…  I am out!  Better luck next week…

    • #15305
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      Weather radar looking pretty sketchy for riding this evening…?!?

      We will keep an eye on it and make a decision around 5:30…

    • #15214
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      I can be there at 12:30…

    • #15013
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      I have the boat, will hand off to jw on Friday unless I hear otherwise.

      p.s. That is one heavy boat!  ;-o  Unless Di left some bricks in it, I did not check.  ; – )

      • This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Don Dufaux.
    • #14981
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      Ay, ‘mano, you are correct…  Probably more stories from a couple handfuls of Tellico trips than from all those countless Ocoee trips combined!  All great memories, on and off the river…  Mikey and the Royal Leprechaun.  Team Throw S#!t.  BOB (aka Bounce Off Boulder).  Turtletown (?!?)  Even that one involving me and a swarm of angry bees.  Many more…  We all got stories on yuzz, too!  Sure we will cross paths again for more paddling adventures, hopefully sooner rather than later!

    • #14977
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      OK – I am in.

    • #13049
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      I am in, seeya there.

    • #13005
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      I am in.

    • #12987
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      I plan to be there.

    • #12894
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      If it don’t rain i’m In.

    • #12786
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      I plan to be there.

    • #12524
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      I remember a pair of brothers from Canada who travelled to the clinic at least twice, maybe 3 times or more, back in late 90’s or early 2000’s.  Also from southern Ontario I believe (?).  Nice folks, it was fun paddling with them, eh.

    • #10959
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      And I assume all CIA moles will get the day off work of course.

      OK, enough…

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