If the river is running at “0″ feet – there is no water, right? Is that even possible? Not true when you are talking about the New River. We even run it at negative water levels. How is this possible? Continue reading
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Tagged cubic feet per second, Dragan, Fayette Station Gauge, New River history, Rick Bayes
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After reading Julia’s blog “ACE: Fun for all ages! Even Grandpa” it inspired me to relate a story about Carl, a 76-year-old gentleman I took down the Upper Gauley some years ago. Continue reading
Posted in Gauley River Rafting
Tagged Class V, Gauley River Rafting, grandpa, guest, Iron Ring, oldest, Rick Bayes, Upper Gauley
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I don’t think many people fully realize the size of ACE Adventure Resort. Continue reading
Posted in New River Rafting, Our Area
Tagged coal, Conchoe, Dun Eden, Erskine, ghost towns, history, New River Rafting, Our Area, railroad, Rick Bayes, Thurmond
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ACE Goes Big! New Welcome Center Part I
If you read Scott’s blog “Where did the ACE Welcome Center Go?” a while back you know that the old Welcome Center disappeared. Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Ridge Log Cabins, Gauley Season, Geothermal, Our Area, Rick Bayes, Welcome Center
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During the 1870s, workers constructed the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad through the New River Gorge. The C&O was considered one of the most difficult engineering feats of the time; contractors building the railroad were said to have “buried a man and two mules” for every mile of track laid. Continue reading
Keith, the video man, recently released this video of us tearing it up on ATVs at ACE. It is a tough job working for North America’s largest adventure resort at times. I guess someone has to do it, though. Continue reading
On April 18, 1835, Richard Clayton became the first man to fly a hot-air balloon over 500 kilometers. In so doing, he became the first man to fly in West Virginia. His path crossed over or near ACE Adventure Resort! Continue reading
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Tagged balloon, First flight, Kenawha River, Richard Clayton, Rick Bayes, West Virginia
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Seriously, how could they name the second oldest river in the world “New” River? I mean, this is some of “America’s Best Whitewater.” Couldn’t they name it something more appropriate? How about “Big Water Canyon” or “Cataract Canyon?” Oh yeah, that one is already taken. Continue reading
Posted in New River Rafting, Our Area
Tagged name, New River, New River Rafting, Our Area, Rick Bayes, Woods River
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A “mountaintop Stonehenge that baffles archeologist…” is located 16 miles north-northwest of ACE Adventure Resort. The massive stone walls, a gigantic compound, of Armstrong Mountain have puzzled archeologists since the 1880s. Continue reading
For more than 20,000 years, people have visited the New River Gorge area. ACE Adventure Resort’s 1,500 acres is situated at a key, natural migratory route that was no doubt visited and used by these early people. Arrowheads and other evidence leave little doubt that even back then this area was popular. Continue reading
Posted in Our Area, People
Tagged Allegheny Mountains, Archaic Indians, Armstrong Mountain, arrowheads, Beards Fork Petroglyphs, Buffalo Trail, burial mounds, Cherokee, Europeans, Hopewell, hunter-gatherers, Midland Trail, National Park Service, Native American Indians, New River Gorge, Our Area, Paleo-Indians, People, Rick Bayes, Robson Mound, Shawnee, the Delaware, Woodland Indians, woolly mammoth
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