An extreme event for a good cause

Posted on by Kent Priestley

Jerry’s Baddle, a bike/kayak duathlon taking place at the Green River Narrows near Saluda, happens this Saturday, April 19.

The event serves as a fundraiser primarily for research towards a cure for ALS, the neurodegenerative disease that claimed well-loved paddler Jerry Beckwith‘s life in 2006. The Green River Access fund also benefits.

Read the full story in this week’s Xpress, by contributor John Pilson.

For event information, visit the Jerry’s Baddle Web site, and check out event host Wilderness Cove Campground’s site, too. 

Here are photos of last year’s Baddle taken by Ben Edson.

— Kent Priestley, contributing editor

(Photo at right by Ben Edson)

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