Where's Paddler Waldo? 70 in Honor of the 70th
By Miki Komlosh
Editor's note: As amply noted elsewhere in this Cruiser, 2025 marks 70 years of CCA's Potomac Downriver Race sponsorship. To celebrate, a longtime volunteer on the race organizing team, Miki Komlosh, somehow dreamed up the idea of a 70-themed "Where's Waldo" paddling puzzle, inspired by the children's puzzle books in which detailed scenes always feature, somewhere, the bespectacled young man in red and white stripes. Miki's version features 70 paddlers known for leading/coordinating CCA trips or other events. Can you identify all of them (as well as finding Waldo, of course)? (For a better look at the faces, try the PDF.)
Miki apologizes to any trip leaders/coordinators whom she couldn't accommodate. And she sends a big thanks to Barb Brown, who provided most of the photos.
For readers who really want to play the game, see below for an alphabetical list by first name, with boxes to check off when the paddlers are identified. Readers who just say "the heck with it" can link to an answer key.