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Soggy Sneakers Guide to Oregon Rivers

Soggy Sneakers Guide to Oregon Rivers

By Members of the Willamette Kayak and Canoe Club

2004 (First Edition 1980)

This book, still in print 28 years after it's initial publication, is a great example of a volunteer based organization producing a very useful tool - though it does help to understand that each seperate contributor will have his, or her, own biases. That however is good advice no matter the professional status of the contributor.

I was fortunate to have spent my high school years paddling with maybe 2/3 of the original contributors of this book - a great group of mentors. This included the natural resource folks at Oregon State University, who saw the project to completion and Gene Ice, the instigator of the project, a post-grad physics student at the University of Oregon who would later go on to win awards for the industrial applications of his particle beam research. I wrote the descriptions for 3 segments, one of which is in the current edition. This run is lower Fall Creek, very close to Eugene and just below a flood control dam - which draws down in late summer, providing a great recreational opportunity when much of everything else has dried up.

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