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Rolando Arrieta

Extreme kayaking on North Carolina's Green Narrows draws thousands of spectators

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People crowd the steep banks of the Green River near Saluda, N.C., to watch participants in the Green Race, an event that organizers claim is the largest extreme kayak race in the world. (Rolando Arrieta/NPR)

SALUDA, N.C. — On the first Saturday in November whitewater kayakers from near and far gather in the town of Saluda, N.C. — about 30 miles south of Asheville — for one of the most intense sporting events in the nation, the Green Race. The race takes place in the Green Narrow Gorge in the Green River Game Lands.

The only way to watch the race is to hike down a two-mile steep ravine — a trek so strenuous and technical that it parallels the vertical waterfalls the extreme kayakers are about to embark in. It's an event where it seems you couldn't have one without the other.

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