Thanks for a great Potomac Whitewater Festival 2010!

Thanks to all the attendees for some great paddling and competition, and especially to the volunteers who made it all happen. Stay tuned to the site, as we post results, pictures, and videos.

The Potomac Whitewater Festival is an annual fund raising event that celebrates the Potomac River.

The festival's most dramatic and dazzling event is the Great Falls Race. This downriver race is a quick, adrenaline-packed descent of 60 vertical feet through the Potomac's spectacular class V+ Great Falls. Other festival events include freestyle, wave surfing, and squirt boat competitions, beginner whitewater clinics, attainment, slalom, and boatercross races, and much more.

The final heat going through the streamers in the 2005 Great Falls Race. Photo courtesy of Bob Leverton.

For the past nineteen years the festival has been supporting American Whitewater, the nations leading advocate for the protection of our whitewater river resources. AW represents paddlers' interests to restore rivers, eliminate water degradation, improve public land management and protect public access for responsible recreational use.

2010 Community Gorge Paddle Results

Submitted by Scott Anderson on July 14, 2010 - 20:52.

The water was lower than last year and the weather was overcast, but close to twenty people still showed up for the Community Gorge Paddle and had a blast. Robert and Kira Goo came dressed as purple Martian river boarding princesses and cleaned up on the awards, winning both best costume categories as well as oldest, youngest, and least seaworthy vessel -- although they made it look pretty da

2010 Boatercross Results

Submitted by Scott Anderson on July 14, 2010 - 20:01.

Boatercross was the last event of the 2010 Potomac Whitewater Festival, and once again it was a huge success. Eighteen competitors met for the pre-race meeting at the rubble dam, including five women and a river boarder. The river board technically exceeded the 7'0 boat length requirement, but Luke was allowed to compete because he had a severe disadvantage at the upstream gates and the s

2010 Attainment Results

Submitted by ckirby on July 11, 2010 - 16:45.

2010 Great Falls Race Results

Calhoun Edges Parsons and Beakes

One second separated 1st from 2nd place, and 2nd from 3rd in the 2010 Great Falls Race, sponsored by Jackson Kayak. Geoff Calhoun edged Olympian Scott Parsons and 2009 Great Falls Race champion Jason Beakes by the slimmest of margins for the long boat class and overall win.

T-Shirt Design Contest

Our winner is Brent Long! Congrats Brent!

Brent designed Option 1 below, and had this to say about winning: