Lachine

In three years living in NH and ten boating in New England, I'd some how never made it to Lachine until last weekend. But, Quinn and I rallied a crew and headed up to Montreal for a day trip on Sunday, and wow. It's pretty damn good. We left Hanover at 7ish on Sunday morning.... Continue Reading →

La Riviere Romaine, Day 3

For days 1 and 2, look here.Day 3:21 milesI woke up in the middle of the night sopping wet -- don't bring a bivy sack on a self support kayaking trip -- and was looking pretty grim by morning, when we all hopped straight into our drysuits and packed up camp quickly. The day started... Continue Reading →

La Riviere Romaine, Day 2

Day 2:26 milesWe packed up camp in cold, cloudy weather and paddled about 12 miles of mostly flat water (with some class II here and there) to a nice bedrock lunch spot next to a Hydro Quebec gauging station and helipad. Shortly thereafter, we came across Entrance Exam, the first huge rapid.Boyce in it.Greg showing... Continue Reading →

La Riviere Romaine

The drive to the float plane base: 16 hoursThe flight: 85 milesThe river: 110 milesThe paddlers: me, Boyce Greer, Greg Hanlon, Scott Murray, Jonathan Baker, and Isaac Levinson.Animal sightings: 5 moose, 1 beaver, a few loons, ducks, wolf tracks, and what was probably a porcupine, but may have been a bear cub.To summarize briefly, God... Continue Reading →

Raquette Race Video

Five2Nine Productions - Events - The Raquette Race 2010 from Five 2 Nine Productions on Vimeo.And a post about it on the LiquidLore blog: http://liquidlore.blogspot.com/2010/09/raquette-race-recap.html. Thanks again to the Five2Nine crew for putting on the race, I hope I'm around for it next year.Just got back from the Romaine River in Northern Quebec...trip report and... Continue Reading →

First Annual Raquette Race

The rest of the Dartmouth crew had headed straight home from the Beaver on Sunday, but I spent another night at Taylorville and then headed up to the Raquette the next morning. Ran into Justin Crannell and the steezy dudes from WV (see Moshier falls picture in previous post) at the putin and decided to... Continue Reading →

Beaver River Rendezvous 2010

Nothing seems to draw a crowd like the Labor Day Beaver releases. From the 40 boats parked above Moshier Falls to the carpet of beer cans at the Taylorville putin on Sunday morning, this weekend seems to bring everyone out of the woodwork.It had an inauspicious start in Boston around noon on Friday, where I... Continue Reading →

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