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MuRF 2019 Schedule of Events

What’s up everyone?? Here we are, just days away from the Muddy Rivers Festival 2019.  Our festival is happening March 22-24 and we are so excited to share our world with you all.  As I’ve said before, the fest is happening down in the gorge for the first time ever. […]

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MuRF 2019, March 22-24

  What’s up MuRFers?!?  Here we are again, getting ready for our 6th consecutive festival.  I can’t believe it’s been so long!  We’ve loved getting to know each and every one of you!   Your awesome host, Tom Hehnen and I have been hard at work trying to get things in[…]

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Volunteer at MuRF 2018!

What’s up MuRFers!?! I hope everyone’s enjoying this wet wet March 2018! The southeast is going off with water and the Muddy Rivers Festival is looking good for water levels. We’re hoping for our best festival yet! But to make this happen we will need volunteers! If you want to[…]

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MuRF 2018, March 23-25…

  What’s up MuRFers?!? I hope everyone’s been keeping warm in this recent brutal cold.  What keeps me warm is daydreaming about this coming Spring.  We are super excited to announce that we will be hosting the Muddy Rivers Festival (MuRF) again this year for our fifth consecutive year! The[…]

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Saturday’s Hometown Throwdown moved to Spring Creek

  What’s up MuRF family? I hope everyone’s enjoying their summer! Last weekend’s ‘Merica party was a blast at Hiwassee Flip Flops. We enjoyed seeing everyone there.  Recent rains have caused the Caney Fork river to rise to unsafe levels so we are moving this Saturday’s World Kayak Hometown Throwdown to[…]

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Summer News and More!

  What’s up MuRFers? How’s the MuRFLiFE treating you? We’ve been hard at work since the festival, getting our paying jobs in line and caught up.  It’s been a long road to say the least.   This past weekend was the Tennessee Valley Canoe Club’s Paddle School. I taught a[…]

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MuRF 2017 — (AAR) – After Action Review

Hello Murfers! Wow, what a great weekend it was at the Muddy Rivers Festival.  This year was so fun, and it appears that the MuRF movement is still growing.   This year we had close to 250 people, including the volunteers, that attended our event. Now, that’s not counting the[…]

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MuRF Race Trophy – Handcrafted by James “Woody” Woodall

What’s up everyone? It’s another glorious Saturday, just one week away from Muddy Rivers Festival 2017. Everyone is getting so excited about the best paddling and outdoor sports festival the Cumberland Plateau has ever seen.   That’s right, MuRF 2017 is just around the corner.  We’ve been hard at work[…]

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Spring Creek Cleanup

Hello everyone! I just wanted to write a quick note here to hopefully get some local support of our Spring Creek Cleanup.  This event is going down Wednesday March 22 at 1pm.   Meet at Waterloo Falls at 1pm to participate. Anything that can be used for trash pickup strongly[…]

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The Race… Sponsored by Dirt Bag Paddlers Magazine

What’s up peeps? I’m sure everyone is gearing down getting ready for our best Muddy Rivers Festival yet.  It’s amazing to see so much rain falling here just before our festival.   I don’t want to jinx it but it’s looking like we’ll have some primo water in the creek[…]

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