Gordon Dalton            [Text nur in Englisch]

D.O.B.: September, 1975
Home: Nelson County, Virginia (or wherever my truck is parked at the moment).
Paddling since: 1993
Favorite Runs: Upper Cherry Ck, California;  Crystal R., Colorado;  Big Timber Ck, Montana; North Fork Blackwater, West Virginia;  Bottom Creek, Virginia

Gordon began guiding canoes in the wilderness of northern Ontario, Canada at age 13. As a teen, he worked all summer at a construction job to buy his first canoe - a flatwater model - and quickly exceeded its limits by taking it on his local whitewater. His first first-descent was done at age 15 on a creek that had been declared off-limits to boating: he paddled the same old canoe and his mother drove the get-away car! Gordon worked as a video-kayaker on the New and Gauley Rivers in West Virginia from 1995 until 2000. Gordon is now a speech therapist in Virginia and spends his summers travelling the country looking for new creeks and rivers to explore. He has paddled more class V creeks in Colorado than most long-time locals. Gordon and his friends are continually opening up "new" creek runs in Virginia, West Virginia and Colorado. Creek boating and exploratory/expedition paddling are his whitewater loves. He is lucky enough to live 10 minutes from a ski resort and when the rivers are dry he can ride his snowboard after work and look down at a neighborhood class V creek from the ski-lift.

Gordon's wife, Wendy, is also a skilled kayaker and a partner on many river trips. Gordon has appearred in several kayaking videos, placed 2nd in the 2004 international I.R. "Big Gun Show" downriver competition, and is helping to write a new guidebook for Colorado due out next year.