Archive | July, 2012

Slalom Ski Clinic

The special touch, according to all who attended, was the opportunity to have a skier within the upper echelons of the sport providing pointers and critiques.

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Muskgrass

Native algae smells like garlic … and may tickle your toes

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A day at the lake

Add two parts water, dump in 340 fingers and toes, an American flag, a human-sized rubber hotdog, sprinkle in a couple of dog tails for good measure and voila! You have the recipe to a Lake Martin Boys and Girls Club field trip.

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Ronix Clinic

Ronix and Singleton Marine Group (SMG) are on their yearly quest to deliver wakeboarders to the land of crests and troughs.

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Slip ‘n’ Slide

Frank Polhill’s Madwin Creek pier doubles as a fun water slide.

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StillWaters Sanctuary

Mississippi natives Billy and Evelyn Bond first visited Lake Martin with friends in 1958. And, they say, they’ve “been coming to the lake ever since.”

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Gramp’s Camp

In 1947, Birmingham residents Charles Herren and his wife, Mildred, built a small cabin in the Blue Creek area of Lake Martin.

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Dam relicensing proposal ‘fair, thorough and all-inclusive’

First, I’ll touch on the current hot-button issue of the Martin Dam re-licensing process. Criticism of the process has appeared recently, some factual and some less so.

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The wakeboard, the wake and a little trick lingo

It all starts with a massive amount of R&D from the boat manufacturers. The hull of the wake boat is designed to influence the character of the wakes it makes.

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Boat Wake: 101

In the five years that I have been president of Lake Martin Resource Association (LMRA), the most frequent concern that I receive from members is a request for a private “No Wake” buoy.

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