Ok I have heard this from to many people now so the trend is contagious.
We need more descriptions of runs.
Now listen here all you non-posting, river running, picture taking
monkeys. I need your help. There are rivers without descriptions and
many of these rivers are well traveled by us. Lets get crackin....
Here is my Call to Arms.... no wait my Call to Typing!
If you see a river on this site and there is no description......
WRITE ONE. I will post it too the river page. Even if I have to fine tune it.
I spend 20+ hours per week writing code and working on this site, so if
you are waiting for me to write all these descriptions .... well enjoy
the wait. And if you really want to help like so many say they do, here
is how you can!
I recognized a while back that I was too busy developing the site to
write reviews of rivers. So I asked a few friends who I knew were
exceptional boaters and honest people to help me out. I made a new
group for these Moderator's called "Professor's of the Paddle" and
Wallla problem solved. Now those moderators could make the changes to
rivers and rapids right away without my involvement. I build a special
update tool for them and everything, with the hope that we could get
more descriptions of runs with more people writing them.
The group of Moderator's that I gathered did alot of paddling so I
figured they would be writing reviews like crazy.... I was wrong. Not a
single review has ever been written by anyone other than myself.
Now if there is anything that I want
you to understand it is this. My crazyass long post is here because I
am upset!!!! I am not upset with anybody in particular. I am upset
because I love Paddling and I want this site to be "THE SINGLE BEST
WHITEWATER RESOURCE IN THE WORLD". The only way to do this is with huge
amounts of paddlers participation.
Now don't get me wrong .... Posting is participation but it is only
going to help make a nice forum... Forum's are everywhere... Who cares
about a just a forum. I want to make this site into way way more...
Something more like a Community, and that takes more than just posting
it takes involvement.
I wanted to show some examples so everyone would understand what I am talking about.
Rivers I have done that you can see as examples.
Cedar River /
Top Tye /
Sauk /
MiddleMiddle /
Sultan /
Tumwater /
Wenatchee Play /
Green River Amoung others
Rivers that I know are boated all the time that we still need descriptions on.
Lewis CC /
Nisqually /
Sk