The HCC Fleet Captain has considerable leeway on these awards. Since it was such a slim year for paddling, what with so much flooding early on and then just plain bad weather luck later, I decided to do some "Honorable Mention" awards for folks that had paddled 60 or more miles, in addition to the traditional 100 miler awards. The criteria for counting miles is that they had to be on official HCC trips, which were posted and available to all our members in enough time they could join a trip.

Here's looking forward to 2017 being a much more paddled year! I think we are off to a good start and as ever I encourage more folks to step up and lead trips, just think of the nice recognition and award that could be waiting for you at the end of 2017.

Note that many club members also paddle additional miles on non-club trips, so their actual annual mileage may be higher than what is represented here for HCC trips only.

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Annual Paddling Awards for 2016

Club miles paddled: 2,060 on 27 trips

Annual Trip leaders tally:13 trip leaders overall

Kent Walters: 5 trips
At 3 trips each: Natalie Wiest, Christy Long, Philip & Tisha Matticks
2 trips: Harmon Everett, Bruce Bodson, Tom Douglas

Annual Paddler Awards:

Honorable Mention paddlers (over 60 miles):

Dave Kitson
Robert Trout
Dave Risch
Sandy Rushworth,
Paul Woodcock
Terry Herdlicka

100-Mile Club:

Christy Long, 111
David Portz,   111
Harmon Everett, 139

Mileage leader: Kent Walters,  215 miles

 

For trips to “count”, they must be posted at least 3 days in advance, with 3 or more paddlers, and an HCC trip coordinator must send me a report.

Cheers and happy paddling,
Natalie

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Fleet Captain, Natalie Wiest