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NOC Celebrating 50 Years

I remember them being pretty new when I was paddling the Nantahala by 1978 or so. I guess that means I'm old(ish). I think Bunny Johns was running it then. They had expanded dramatically when I went back in 1985 and hoped to rent a canoe.
 
After having lived in the West for six years and beginning my whitewater career in northern California, I moved back to the Northeast in 1982 and discovered that a lot of Eastern open canoeists had taken training at NOC. My tandem partner and best paddling buddy ended up being a whitewater open canoe intructor and raft guide there in the 90's. I recall buying a fair amount of paddling equipment from their once-extensive catalog.
 
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