Welcome to the 2004 Whitewater Open Canoe Championships and Western Junior Wildwater Team Trials.
******* Please be patient as we are under construction**********
WWOC/USACK Downriver Team Trials Entry Form
Located on the World Famous Arkansas River we are pleased to provide our home as your home away from home for a week of fierce competition.
Plans
are moving forward nicely and our momentum is building now. If you are interested
in providing sponsorship please contact
us. Various sponsorship packages are available.
Tenative
Schedule:
Dates for Boat Control, Registration, bib pick up are 6/13 in the PM..
Racers meetings and racing 6/14 - 17 am. Daily Boat Control, bib pick
up, registration, and awards 6/14 - 17 pm. We are operating out of
Salida east which is the place we began the sprints last time you were
in CO. This will cut a little distance off the classic race, but we
don't want to conflict with the rodeo/freestyle/slalom mayhem down at
the Salida Boat Ramp. Sprint is through Bear Creek. Classic is
Salida East to Rincon. Valley Bridge through Little Cottonwood is our
back up.
Western Jr. Wildwater Team Trials will do their sprint with WWOC and
will do their classic race through Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood
6/18.
Please visit the FibArk Website
Lodging:
You can find lodging, camping, and restaurant info at
www.salidachamber.org. Two places that are nice (clean), like boaters,
and support FIBArk are Salida Super 8 - 719 539 6689 (talk to Don or
Brit) and
Holiday
Inn Express - 719 539 8500.
Camping is free at Salida East, but there's not much there but us and
other boater riff raff.
There's a big road bike contingent coming into town Sunday of FIBArk
weekend and making reservations soon is probably a good idea.
The FIBArk competition chairwoman is going to put us in their mailing
and in their program. We should let people know about the FIBArk
Festival in return.
Memberships:
To race in the Junior Wildwater Trials or the WWOC Nationals you must be a member of the American Canoe Association or USA Canoe Kayak.
Any Juniors (under 18) that place in the top three positions of each class will be qualified as a US Junior National Team Member to compete in Vipetino, Italy for the 2004 Junior World Championships July 30-August 1st.
Chris Wiegand is the US Junior Team Wildwater Coach. Please contact him for further details.
Contact
Chris Wiegand or Nate
Lord for further information or to volunteer.