A Conversation with Charlie Walbridge

A paddler encounters a surprising entrapment scenario on the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. 

Paddlers join forces to help save their neighbors trapped by the rising floodwaters of the Swannanoa River. 

A hidden strainer creates a day of carnage on Overflow Creek in Georgia. 

A solo paddler encounters a hidden strainer in the spring runoff of the Beartooth Mountains of Montana.

Charlie Walbridge describes his career of river safety education, his work with the AW Accident Database, and recent conservation efforts involving Big Sandy Creek. 

A missed roll leads to an upside down run over a waterfall, directly onto a rock. We'll discuss management of multi-system trauma in the wilderness, plus a bonus story from Jeff Snyder describing one his best screw-ups on Big Sandy Creek, from his early days of cutting edge paddling. 

A successful live-bait rescue and resuscitation on the Green River Narrows.

Returning to the rivers of Western NC after Hurricane Helene.

A close call in an undercut rock on the Russell Fork Gorge, plus some history of the race and the annual river rendezvous.

A cold water immersion and entrapment on California's Royal Gorge.