Chattahoochee River Race Festival

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Chattahoochee River Race Festival

Photos from Saturday's Chattahoochee River Race Festival.

PADDLERS TOOK to the the river during Saturday's Back to the Chattahoochee River Race in Roswell.

SPECTATORS LINE the bridge at Roswell's Riverside Park. The race and festival were sponsored by the nonprofit organization Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, which protects and preserves the Chattahoochee River.

THE RACE included 8- and 10-mile courses through the Chattahoochee rapids, and a number of categories.

BACK ON the banks, Kent Olson of Alpharetta holds his daughter Kate, 3, while daughter Kylee (left) and wife Dana (right) stroll through the park.

CARICATURE ARTIST Mariana Holman of Marietta works on a drawing of Nicole Rivera of Sandy Springs.

WARD GREEN and his son, Jackson, 13, of Roswell, finish the race.

CHRIS AND Jennifer Dennison of Marietta finish in the recreation division.

AT THE Appalachian Trail Club booth, Ethan Chernik, 5, works the saw with his father, Todd.

YOUNG FEST-GOER Nathan Carnegie, 1, sways to the music of the Watershed Project.

BILL BEAVERS of Atlanta competes on the Open Division.

HANK BLAUSTEIN with Tree For All helps Grace Nyman, 8 of Alpharetta, with her helmet as Jesse Wilbanks, 10, of Roswell, shins up a rope.

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PADDLERS TOOK to the the river during Saturday's Back to the Chattahoochee River Race in Roswell.

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