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https://www.americanrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/KayakingZDam-Victoria-Levi.jpg14311073Some of my earliest memories of whitewater kayaking involve my mom waking me up early in the morning, my teenage self lazily walking to her car, and falling right back asleep in the passenger’s seat during the over two-hour-long car ride to Richmond, Virginia. When the Richmond section of the James River floods above eleven […]