But Larry, the point is *they were already there*. As we were driving
in we passed lots of them driving out; they had already committed the
gas money, and now they were passing up the opportunity to get in a
second day's paddling, on a hard-to-catch creek, at no additional fuel
cost. We saw Eli Helbert, who was there breaking down the Esquif
exhibit, and he told us they had had a decent crowd Saturday.

Can you imaging paddling the Gauley on Saturday, going to Gauley
Festival Saturday evening, camping in the rain Saturday night, and then
driving home early Sunday because it is cloudy and rainy, without even
bothering to check and discover that the Meadow has come up to a
boatable level?

I mean there were many boaters *already there*, yet Chris and I had the
creek to ourselves. Lucky us, but, geez, what's with all these other
so-called "boaters"?

-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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