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Long before we began seeing kayakers negotiating gnarly creeks and careening down waterfalls on the pages of magazines and on our television screens, a cadre of Durango whitewater enthusiasts were quietly running the next river, practicing the perfect eddy turn, searching out a great adrenalin rush. It is not surprising, therefore, that a program such as the one offered by Durango Whitewater Center of Excellence would grow in the fertile water-sport soil of Durango, Colorado.