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 ...
SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — Skip Heater has been guiding raft trips in West Virginia for 30 years. He’s shot the rapids of the Gauley River more than a thousand times. He said it never gets old. “All the ...
As the past-its-prime retired school bus churns slowly up the one-lane dirt track toward the put-in to West Virginia's Lower Gauley River, our driver, the owner and namesake of Rusty's Shuttle Service ...
A 62-year-old woman from Southwest Ranches, Fla., died Friday afternoon following a rafting trip on the Upper Gauley River. The woman, whose name was not released pending notification of next of kin, ...
SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — Whitewater rafters are getting ready to brace for the big class V rapids, because Gauley Season has officially begun. Governor Jim Justice made the announcement Friday. The ...
On most weekends of the Gauley's release season, the feeling alone of paddling endless-seeming Class IV-V rapids below West Virginia's Summersville Dam would be invigorating enough. But on the third ...