To prepare for Gauley Fest, all year, whitewater paddlers train - both for the river and, paddlers often joke, for the after-party, which has a reputation of going all night. Gauley Fest is the ...

A 17-year-old student from a Montana kayaking prep school drowned Friday when his kayak got trapped under water on the Upper Gauley River, authorities said. The body of the Missoula, Mont., teen was ...

AHE, based in Beckwith, is a college preparatory high school with a focus on whitewater kayaking. The school — currently with 12 students from 11 states in grades 9-12 — was initiated by founder David ...

HUNTINGTON — The Gauley River will be wilder than normal next week when the Army Corps of Engineers does a special water release for a kayak festival. On Tuesday morning, the corps plans to increase ...

SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities have identified a Pennsylvania man who drowned after his kayak overturned in the Gauley River. New River Gorge National River chief ranger Jeff West says 55-year ...

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Their Holy Grail was the “mystery move”—using river currents to pull their low-volume boats completely underwater. Jim pushed the design and technique until he and his fellow squirtists were swirling ...

Every third weekend of September, some 5,000 paddlers descend on a field by the Gauley River for a weekend of white-water, camping, music, and Woodstock-like debauchery coinciding with a ...