1. Getting the canoes in the water |
2. Looking at the river doesn't help... |
3. Circling in a ring dance doesn't help either... |
4. Sophomores are ahead already... |
5. Yes, down the bank... |
6. The starting line is downstream to the left... |
7. Meanwhile, the junior boat is in drydock... |
8. Canoe in the water... empty... |
9. Race official tells us "You can go by bus instead"... |
10. Frosh at the end of second leg... third place here... |
11. Seniors happy to wait for their boat at Echo Bridge... |
12. Frosh happy to wait unaware of the portages to come... |
13. The portage around the mill's falls... |
14. Meanwhile, soph canoe reaches Waltham... |
15. Sophs seem to be taking their time in Waltham... |
16. Juniors arrive at Waltham... not far behind... |
17. Not quite as casual as the soph boat leaving the river... |
18. The frosh wait at Waltham as others pass by... |
19. And the seniors are still happy after their portage... now they're ahead of those frosh... |
20. The juniors wait, too, but see 16 above... |
21. From the other side of the river in Waltham... |
22. Second to the finish line, the thrid year boat... |
23. Triumphalism, what more is there to say?... |
24. The second place finishers... |
25. Juniors and honorary juniors... |
26. Herter Park, Brighton, Massachusetts, Sunday, April 29, 2001. |