ISAAC LUDWIG MEMORIAL TOP YOUGH, MARYLAND, USA, MARCH 2023

Amos Ludwig

A record 49 people turned out to race in this year's Isaac Ludwig Memorial Top Yough Race. Racers launch at one-minute intervals and are treated to an uninterrupted 1.25-mile stretch of tight, technical Class IV rapids on a free-flowing river. The race course culminates at Suck Hole, a notorious Class V rapid with an insatiable sieve. This year, mother nature threw a curve ball, with an extra half inch of rain and 50-mph wind gusts, resulting in a guick spike in the gauge for race time. Racers who launched first began their sprint downstream with a flow of 270 cfs, while racers in the final seeds launched with discharges topping out around 560 cfs. This natural spike in flow resulted in a unigue leveling-of-the-playing field between the long and short…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2023

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