Obituary: Alan Panebaker

Alan Panebaker, 29, of Montpelier, Vt., died Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, on the Pemigewasset River in Franconia State Park in Lincoln, N.H., doing what he loved best — whitewater kayaking.
Alan was born on Feb. 22, 1983, in Kalispell, Mont., the son of Dave and Janet Panebaker of Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Alan’s loved the outdoors. He grew up in or near several national parks, in Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias and Yosemite; and in Sylva, N.C., near…