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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Another summer weekend, another trip to the Raquette...This time, Ben had had an unfortunate fight with some pavement at 2am the Thursday night prior and had 15 stitches in his forehead. But, we figured it'd be fine and he came along anyway. We encountered a moose on Midd Gap who seemed pretty unamused, but stood... Continue Reading →
A few NH/VT boaters and I have been in an email conversation with the USFS for a few weeks about a proposed project to place large woody debris (LWD) into the headwaters of the Big Branch. Naturally, we were all pretty concerned -- LWD is the kind of thing that kills boaters. The USFS has... Continue Reading →
In a shocking twist of events...it turns out summer is boating season in New England. The New Haven has run at least once a week for the last month, and northern VT went huge on Wednesday (5" of rain in places), with another big storm coming through southern VT on Thursday. Not to mention dam... Continue Reading →
39 days out and I'm creeking again...it didn't even hurt that bad. The New Haven River is a mile of excellent low-stress creeking: slides, boulder gardens, funky slots, a waterfall, and the fact that it comes up easily combine to make this one of the best miles of river in New England. Below 1000 cfs,... Continue Reading →
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