In Ottawa, Canada, the levels on the river were extremely high. The NRA students paddled “Short Bus,” Sattlers wave, and got two amazing days on High Tension on the Gatineau in Quebec. Everyone was progressing in their kayaking and pushing their limits on both the Ottawa and the Gatineau. After our two weeks of amazing paddling in Canada, the group thought that the better waves of the quarter were behing us. Little did we know what we had in store for us the next couple of days. Upon returning to the US and our home base here in West Virginia, we got the New River Dries and about 54,000 CFS (a level that hasn’t been seen since about 2006). After a very long sunday session, our group was still surfing some of the best waves in North America. The middle wave on the Dries was giving up some of the biggest air of the year. The NRA students were going far bigger than the majority of the locals there. The level has gone down to less than 20,000 CFS, but I can speak for the whole group when i say that we got some of the best surfing of the year in a day and a half period. Now we’re finishing up exams and the everyone is stoked for graduation this weekend. Here are some pictures from our Sunday session on the Dries.
