WW Paddlers in South Texas

Big Dave · Post by **Big Dave** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:16 pm

I had to relocate to South Texas (two hours south of San Antonio) one year ago. Everytime I try using the net to locate white water I keep getting images of people on innertubes

Can anyone point me to the WW paddling community for this area? Thank you in advance for the help.

dirk · Post by **dirk** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:42 pm

Big Dave,

Welcome to TX. Home of incredibly long droughts. The link below is to the book Texas Whitewater. The book to have when it rains again. Discusses the WW spots in the state. When we have rain, some fun stuff, but nothing like CO/SE, etc.

I am in Austin and am not familiar with runs in south TX. The Rio Grande in SW TX has some nice runs, but I believe all multi-day trips.

Enjoy,
Dirk

http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Whitewater- ... 1585443832

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:54 pm

Use to live in West Texas (midland). There's a section of the upper Rio grande just south of Presidio that we called the Hoodoos.

It runs about 4-5 miles with several nice at the appropriate levels.

http://www.americanwhitewater.org/conte ... l/id/1822/

This shows the run all th way down to Colorado Canyon but there is (was) a takeout about 5 miles down. The shuttle can actually be walked since it's only about 1-2 miles by the road.

Here's the link to the AW page for Tejas!

http://www.americanwhitewater.org/conte ... /state/TX/

WE had a saying in Midland that we were surrounded by water in all directions. Only this was you had to drive 8 hours to get to it!!

I don't miss that state!

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WW Paddlers in South Texas

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